Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015

Welcome to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015!

Thanks very much to everyone who helped to spread the word and to those who have already taken part.

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. Please also link back here, wherever possible (we're at http://tinyurl.com/BADday2015).

We'll carry on updating this post as any late-comers arrive. We've also been posting links to every blog using the Twitter stream @BADDtweets and these will automatically be posted onto our Facebook Page.

Round-up Posts

Alice Wong:  Tweets from #BADD2015

Blogging Against Disablism 2015

Employment (Disability discrimination in the workplace, recruitment issues and unemployment).  Smiffy's Place:  My Annual Rant Education (Attitudes and practical issues effecting disabled people and the discussion of disability in education, from preschool to university and workplace training.) Academic Editing Canada:  Ableism, Academia & Science Fiction  AZ is Amazing:  My ideal classroom Deaf Student:  Disabilism in Higher Education Limits Not Included:  Prove it Paginated Thoughts:  One of the Lucky Ones? The Autistic Anthropologist:  Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015 Turtle Is A Verb:  Internalized Ableism Yes, That Too:  Late for Blogging Against Disableism Day Friendly Crips & Our Friends: So you want to inspire young people? If you're disabled, don't bother 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:  Renewing my Disabled aka Concessionary Bus Pass (or not?) Andrea Shettle's Tumblr:  Access is NOT a luxury  Beguine Again:  We Interrupt This Story to Blog Against Disablism  Crippled, Queer, Anglo-European Ranter:  Dis/Ablism in Benalmádena The World of Accessible Toilets:  Why don't NHS hospitals have accessible toilets? Definition and Analysis of Disablism/ Ableism Most Usually Unusual:  The “Acceptable” ism The Glitter Notebook:  Why the word “disablism” should be in the dictionary The Language of Disablism(Posts about the language which surrounds disability and the way that it may empower or disempower us.) Diary of Mister Goldfish:  The God of Sleep 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..) allthesoftplaces:  Thoughts on the Intersections of Capitalism & Ableism A Very Bitey Zebra:  Look left, look right, then look left again Radical Neurodivergence Speaking:  BADD 2015: #blacklivesmatter, #freeolinka, & intersectionality reminders The F-word:  Gender, health and responsibility Disablism in Literature, Culture and the Media A Writer in a Wheelchair:  Third Time Lucky Never that Easy:  Where I talk about Fanfiction and Comics, a lot, and you probably roll your eyes People Aren't Broken:  CripFace The Note Which Do Not Fit:  Characters with Disabilities in the Condor Trilogy This ain't living:  Oscarbait Words of Realms:  Doctor Who and Disability yetanotherlefty:  Dressing While Disabled History Disability Studies, Temple U.:  Wikipedia Against Disablism, Part 2 Relationships, Love and Sex Kink Praxis:  Being a Disabled Top in Kink Community Sport Black Telephone:  Just Keep Swimming Other Ballastexistenz:  To All The Children In Severe Pain Tonight Murder of Goths:  A Game of Spoons Part of a Whole:  Disability's Biggest Challenge Art, Poetry and Fiction against Disablism After the Rain:  Schooldays Amelia Evelyn Voicy Baggs:  Poetry for #BADD2015 Crippled, Queer, Anglo-European Ranter:  We Live - Art for #BADD2015  (NB NSFW) Embrace Different:  Untitled (Link 2, Link 3)

General Thoughts on Disablism Deescribes:  Practicing Pride More than my Size:  Spoooon! Parenting Issues(whether disabled parents or the parents of a disabled child.) This Is My Blog:  Progress Impairment-Specific Prejudice Deaf Student UK:  I’m deaf, I’m not disabled! Why should I do this?  Living Blind Blog:  Five Things to Remember if You Know Someone Who's Blind People First England:  Bloody Skegness! That Crazy Crippled Chick:  My Most Visible Disability Has the Least Impact on Me (No, Really) This is M.E since yesterday:  INVISableism Personal Journeys Posts about learning experiences and realisations authors have had about the nature of disability discrimination and the impact on their lives. Bigger on the Inside:  A Farewell to BADD Feminist Sonar:  Home Again Journeymouse:  Is It Time To Retrain… As A Fish? Life at Full Tilt:  Vesuvius on Wheels Mary Caroline:  Friendly Reminder: I’m Still Ill Scribbling on Seashells:  Do Not Deny Me Sickness and ME:  Impermanence and the Gift of Human Suffering The Social Worker Who Became Disabled:  Don't put me in a box: reclaiming my narrative Thoughts from an Autistic Vegan:   Combatting Negative Media Messages Disablism and Politics (For example, the political currency of disability, anti-discrimination legislation, etc.) A CRPSy Life:  Dear Mr Cameron, from someone who's life is no life at all Dannilion.com:  Scared of the Government Liberal Democrat Voice:  To be free from poverty, ignorance and conformity, our society must have robust support for disabled people Lisybabe's Blog:  How many politicians does it take to throw 18% of the population under a bus? Rolling with the Punches:  A Call to Union The eGremlin:  Don't shove me into your stereotypical box  Where's the Benefit?:   Manifestly Abusive Bullying, Harassment and Hate Crime Christopher John Ball:  What are YOU Looking At? Disability, Life and Death Sticking the Corners with Jennifer Fitz:  Don’t Kill People with Disabilities. Especially Family Healthcare Issues Nightengale of Samarkand: If you erase all the wrong stuff, you'll have plenty of room Disability in Institutions Blogging Astrid:  "You Can't Be in Society Like This" Indigo Jo Blogs:  Sometimes it’s the miles. Sometimes it’s the care. Sometimes it’s both. Through Myself and Back Again:  Disability and Christian Churches