Blogging Against Disablism Day 2013

Welcome to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2013!

Thanks very much to everyone who helped to spread the word and to everyone who is blogging against disablism, ableism and disability discrimination.

If you have a post for Blogging Against Disablism, please leave a comment including the URL (web address) of your post and the catergory your post fits best.

We'll be updating this post throughout the day to create an archive of all the posts. We'll also try to post links to every blog using the Twitter stream @BADDtweets and these will automatically be posted onto our Facebook Page.

As with the last few years, Stephen and I are sharing the work, but even with two people, there are bound to be typos, so please be patient and let us know if you notice any mistakes.

In Memory of Elizabeth McClung (1970 - 2013)

Today, we heard of the death of disability blogger and Blogging Against Disablism Day contributor Elizabeth McClung. She wrote so passionately and bravely about disability that it seems appropriate to dedicate this year's BADD to her memory. There are over a thousand posts on her blog Screw Bronze, but here are her old BADD posts, as samples of her work:

The life no one wants and the war on disabled. 

Disablism within disability

I believe... one day

Those lazy, deceiving disabled. Why won't they die?

Blogging Against Disablism 2013

Employment (Disability discrimination in the workplace, recruitment issues and unemployment).  Gilbert and Me:  Stop Doing More with Less Grace Quantock:  The stripper pole liberated me too I'm a Grad School Cautionary Tale:  Trying to get a Part Time Job Rolling with the Punches:  Can or Can't Work, a Disability Dilemma there is no should:  part-time workers are workers This Ain't Livin':  Accessible Labour Rights Education (Attitudes and practical issues effecting disabled people and the discussion of disability in education, from preschool to university and workplace training.) That Crazy Crippled Chick:  Ironic (Or, How My Entire College Career Just Blew Up In My Face) Feminist Sonar:  Facing the Academy I'm a Grad School Cautionary Tale:  Disabled Grad Students and Disability Offices Lessons from the Warrior's Chair:  Do my students see me as disabled? And should they? Rolling in the Fast Lane:  A Moment of Disablism  Urbanus Tenus Herma:  B. A. D. D. – another year older, wiser, prejudiced against... Technology and Web Accessibility Diary of Mister Goldfish: A Sticky Situation Diary of Mister Goldfish: Tech Expands the World Sharon Wachsler:  Is Your Blog Against Disablism Accessible to Disabled Bloggers (and Readers)? Visibility Fiction:  DRM=Discrimination Other Access Issues (Posts about any kind of access issue in the built environment, shops, services and various organisations. By "access issues" I mean anything which enables or disenables a person from doing what everyone else is able to do.) A Barnsley Historian's View:  Today I Travelled to Sheffield Cambriangirl:  The Ol’ Trigger Warning Switcheroo Disability Matters UK:  One Woman Went To Work! Jon Bateman  :The subtle forms of discrimination Life in Deep Water:  “Woke Up This Morning Feeling Blue, Man I’ve Got Those Blue Badge Blues” Urocyon's Jaunts:  Accessible Labour Rights Definition and Analysis of Disablism/ Ableism I ♥ [heart] the Phylum Chordata: Blogging Against Disablism Day 2013 (Also Posted Here) A Path Through the Valley:  Discrimination The Language of Disablism(Posts about the language which surrounds disability and the way that it may empower or disempower us.) Bigger on the Inside:  Labels and Lies The Phantasmagoric and Thaumaturgic Blog:  My Identitification as Disabled, Mixed With Some Queerness Disablism Interacting with Other 'Isms' (Posts about the way in which various discriminations interact; the way that the prejudice experienced as a disabled person may be compounded by race, gender, age, sexuality etc..) The Haps:  A Memory m0ndayschild88:  Disablism, Ageism, and Living with Invisible Illnesses Disablism in Literature, Culture and the Media Low Visionary:  Women, disableism and literature Notes, Notings, and Common Refrains:  Overcoming Prejudice Through Changing the Narrative The old jaw jaw:  Yes, another Twilight post: Billy Black's wheels Paul Canning:  Channel Four are idiots pseudo-living:  Belated BADD Post - What's Your Excuse? Unicorn of Doom:  Doctor Who needs to be better about disability History Anthro, Etc.:  Disability in Bioarchaeology Disability Studies, Temple U: Bad History Doesn't Help Relationships, Love and Sex Crippled, Queer, Anglo-European Ranter:  No Sex Please, We're... Disabled! Diary of Mister Goldfish: Demi-Wife Pretty Pancreas:  Reproduction While Disabled You don't look sick!:  Are we really Undateable? Sport rowrowyourboat:  Is disablism within rowing intentional?   Other Poetry against Disablism Tor-Elias:  Pain, a love letter A Writer In A Wheelchair:  Bored Art and Photography Against Disablism Angry Activist Art:  Crazy Angry Activist Art:  Glass Box Angry Activist Art:  Inside the Box

General Thoughts on Disablism Accessible Insights Blog:  The Adversity of Anything  Cracked Mirror in Shalott:  Microcosmic Multitudes Em with ME:  #BADD2013 Frida Writes:  Noli Me Tangere Funky Mango's Musings:  Growing Up Beside You  I Wish Somebody Would Steal My Shoes:  Having Disabilities is a Full-Time Job  Jennifer Fitz:  Theology of the Body for Every Body Live in, Love in, Laugh in:  I am who I am, because I'm disabled and I won't disappear because you want me to Lounalune:  At the Library Mecarta:  It Starts With Us Nightengalesknd:  Steps le pays des humains volants:  We Are Still Here!/Nous Sommes Toujours là Radical Neurodivergence Speaking:  Kickin it Old School for BADD 2013 rainbow_goddess:  You're Not Really Disabled  Restless Hands: It's Blogging Against Disableims Day! Skepchick:  Guest Post - Blog Against Disablism Day by Chris “Gonz Blinko” Hofstader Stand Tall Through Everything:  Is There Internal Prejudice? Wheelchair Dancer:  Just When You Think Wheelie Catholic: My BADD Parenting Issues(whether disabled parents or the parents of a disabled child.) Blacktelephone:  Brave In The Attempt Victoria Wright:  I'm not a monster - I'm a mummy Healthcare Issues(For example, the provision of healthcare, institutionalistaion of disabled people, reproductive ethics and euthanasia) ABC Therapeutics:  Tinfoil hat analysis - Crypto-eugenics and the autism community Accessibility NZ: Our Homes, Not Nursing Homes Ballastexistenz: Feeding tubes and weird ideas Benefit Scrounging Scum: The Right To Live And The Right To Die Diary of a Goldfish: Blamelessness Indigo Jo Blogs: Rosa Monckton, learning disabilities and independence A Room Of My Own:  Never forget where you came from Variously Awesome:  Blogging Against Disablism Day Impairment-Specific Prejudice Bad Aspergers:  Autistic Discrimination A Blind Man's Journey:  The Rarity of Multi Celtic Compliance:  Are you providing the best possible customer service to deaf and hearing impaired clients? Diary of a Benefit Scrounger:  Tube-ageddon Grimalkin:  How depression makes everything harder Journeymouse:  Living with Invisible Disability Life Decanted:  Fact-Fallacy-Photo Maijan ilmestykset:  Barrier-free food (Esteetöntä ruokaa) VisionAware:  Guest Blogger John Miller: Blogging against "Disablism" with a Dual Disability The Wandering Monster: Tic Tic, Tick Tock Personal Journeys Posts about learning experiences and realisations authors have had about the nature of disability discrimination and the impact on their lives. cherryflip:  Identifying as disabled Crip_tic:  Return of the Borg - Life on a ventilator (and other machines!) holymansam.wordpress.com:  Jemma’s Story The Mysterious Life of...:  I'm BADD Never that Easy:  “We are familiar..."  People Aren't Broken: Magic Words Restless Hands:  It's Blogging Against Disablism Day  Rolling Around In My Head:  A Day Late / Right On Time  Same Difference:  I Took My Parents To Holland Scrumptiously:  Elizabeth McClung 1970-2013 Skepchick:  Guest Post: Blog Against “Disablism” Day by Sarah Moglia Disablism and Politics (For example, the political currency of disability, anti-discrimination legislation, etc.) Cats and Chocolate:  Coming Together hofstader.com:  Rant Against Disablism: Nothing About Us Without Us! Flat Out:  Behind the Mask  Flat Out:  When Demonisation Makes Sense Jane Young:  Independent living is expensive – but its value exceeds the cost Law Geek's Blog:  Inspiring lip service? The Official Site of Lesley Smith:  The ESA50 and me #BADD Rambling Justice:  Five Ways to Support the US #CRPD Ratification Campaign!  Ramblings of a Fibro Fogged Mind:  Politics ‘V’ Political The notes which do not fit:  On Privilege and Fraud Bullying, Harassment and Hate Crime Little Miss Perception:  My First B.A.D.D.  xojane:  It's Blogging Against Disablism Day, and I'm Talking Disability Hate Crimes Yes, That Too:  Blogging Against Disablism Day Yet Another Lefty: People don't listen

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