Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010

Welcome to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010!

Thanks very much to everyone who helped to spread the word and to everyone who has posted about disability discrimination.

If you have written a post, please leave a comment including:

1. The full URL of your post
2. Which category you would like your post to go in.

I shall gradually add new posts to the archive below - please be patient, but please let me know if you spot any errors.


Blogging Against Disablism 2010

Employment (Disability discrimination in the workplace, recruitment issues and unemployment). Andrea's Buzzing About: I need to write a letter to my boss angelkitten: Voluntary Accommodations Nicky's Journal: Blogging Against Disablism Day Red Vinyl Shoes: Full Disclosure sac_whovian: Blogging Against Disabilities Day Special Communion: Mental Health and the Priesthood three rivers blog: I can't count on anybody to understand (cross-posted at FWD/ Forward) Education (Attitudes and practical issues effecting disabled people and the discussion of disability in education, from preschool to university and workplace training.) And God Laughs: More than a Mascot Black Telephone: Morning of a Successful Communicator Disability: Active Academics: Looking for Parallel Themes faithonthefloor: We interrupt your fundraiser to bring you... Teaching All Students: #BADD2010 Technology and Web Accessibility Even Grounds: Rosa Parks is not done teaching us Pendulum Tech: Accessibility & Ubuntu Special Education Mangomon Blog: How does Technology Help People with Special Needs STC AccessAbility SIC: Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010 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.) Action Replay Girl aka Dee Ramona: When things are going well alumiere: Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010 BiblebyLincoln: Almost Accommodated!! bluebec.com: Public transport and disability in Melbourne Diceytillerman: Blogging Against Disableism Day Hoyden About Town: A Thousand Words (cross-posted as FWD/ Forward, Feminists with disabilities) Knitting Clio: Belated Blogging Against Disablism Day Linguanaut: Planes, trains and automobiles... and a visual impairment Lisy Babe's Blog: Discrimination by ignorance and the myth of the DDA Normal is Overrated: Of privilege and auditory processing Oh Wheely: Blogging against disablism day Smiffy's Place: Gay Dogs Not Allowed SpeEdChange: to be fully human Definition and Analysis of Disablism/ Ableism The F-Word: What is Disablism The Language of Disablism (Posts about the language which surrounds disability and the way that it may empower or disempower us.) The Alternative Lexicon: we've got such important things to do Embracing Chaos: On Assuming Impairment Feministe: Addressing abelist language Finding My Way: Journey of an Uppity Intellectual Crip: It's all about Intentionality - Hurtful Words Part 2 (see part 1 here) Franklyfeminist: Inspiring Women Same Difference: The Concept of Normality 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..) Chartreuse Flamethrower: Blogging Against Disablism Day Conversation@Intersections: Otherly Oriented Ought to Mean that We're Aware & Inclusive of Each Other fatfu: The Total Erasure of Partial Disability Here be Dragons: An Obituary If these scars could speak: "Choose & Move" - though only if you're 'able-bodied' Switchin' to glide: "Independent Women" : Privileged Feminist Ideologies and Ableism Disablism in Literature, Culture and the Media Butterfly Dreams: Harry Potter and the Disability Invisibility Cloak Disability Studies, Temple U: "It will be Interesting" an ex-classicist wonders what she thinks she's doing: Dear Author; please, don't heal me (cross-posted here and here) FWD/ Forward: A Screenshot's Worth a Thousand Words Life Decanted: Are We There Yet? Never That Easy: BADD 2010 Notes, Notings and Common Refrains: "The Gravity of the Situation" or Whence the Morbid Fixation on Cure? Screw Bronze!: The life no one wants and the war on the disabled Wheelchair Dancer: Movement is radical History Women's History Network Blog: Blogging Against Disablism Day Relationships, Love and Sex Feminists with FSD: BADD 2k10 sexual dysfunction as disability People aren't broken: Is there disablism in dating? tgstonebutch: a story from IMsL This is My Blog: It's not Bridezilla to want access Until the dolphin flies and thparrot lives at sea: Marriage & Penalties The Weary World: I went to your city and I didn't feel anything: why I'm leaving Portland Non-English Language Blogs le pays des humains volants: Le Pays des Humains Volants Blogger: Diary of a Goldfish - Edit Post "Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010" Other The Curvature: Ableism and Abuse Daughter of the Ring of Fire: Fear & Othering green: Into the Light of Day The F-Word: On being a disabled blogger

General Thoughts on Disablism And The Wheels Keep Turning: Intelligence: It's not Just Academic Ballastexistenz: If only, oh if only Barriers, Bridges and Books: It's Everywhere Benefit Scrounging Scum: What's the point in making vows you're not going to keep? Dog's Eye View: Blogging Against Disablism For a Fairer Today: Submissiveness Fumbling About in the Dark: Imagine That. Kid O For a Day FWD/ Forward - Feminists with Disabilities: How can I support Blogging Against Disablism Day? Intersectionality Dreaming: Malaysiana: Three Stories on Disability for BADD LeftyByDefault: The relentless fight Love That Max: My child has special needs, but please don't treat him special Midlife and Treachery: Assumption as Discrimination The mouse: Please just ask, listen and try to understand Multi-Genre Fan: Assumptions Putting on the Feminist Lens: Why You Gotta Be Like That? POP: A Philosophy of Pain: Of isms and igns and ints The Rettdevil's Rants: The little things, othey add up, Stoppit. Sneak Peek: Full Speed Ahead Sunny Dreamer: Patronization: A Plea For Help Wheelchair Pride: Is the Disabled Community Partly to Blame for Disablism? Witkowski Family Happenings: Keep Your Damn Pity To Yourself. Parenting Issues (whether disabled parents or the parents of a disabled child.) The Beauty Offensive: Building Bridges elf: My Kid? Is Disabled? Rolling Around in My Head: Baby Tio - Blogging Against Disablism and Disphobia Day Healthcare Issues (For example, the provision of healthcare, institutionalistaion of disbaled people, reproductive ethics and euthanasia) Almost Normal: Hands off my codeine (cross-posted at ǽgflota) Nightengale of Samarkand: Really, truly, not dead yet, again R.A.R.E blog: Blogging Against Disablism Day, a global effort on May 1, 2010 Impairment-Specific Prejudice After Gadget: Q&A on Being an Assistance Dog Partner Chained To Innocence: It's not You, It's Me Finding My Way: Journey of an Uppity Intellectual Crip: Hurtful Words Part 1 (see part 2 here) My Own Last Words: BADD for the not so fluent sophy: Visible vs. Invisible What If : Secret Disabilities Personal Journeys Posts about learning experiences and realisations authors have had about the nature of disability discrimination and the impact on their lives. ?!: My heart and disability All the Colours of Me: If only I'd *try* Anna Caro: Why I didn't believe I could be a writer Astrid's Journal: I Am Whole: Ableism and Identity Cat in a Dog's World: To Tell or Not To Tell A Crippled Carnival: "My Own Disablism" or "The Self-Hating Crip" Dorianisms: Holding Back Gimpstoriesvt: A Twisted Foot in Each World ham blog: "Exhibition" Kaz's Scribblings: The self-pity model killing_rose: When my spoons are gone, so is my tact Life in a so-called Strap of Steel: It's a BADD Day! You heard it right, Blogging Against Disable-ism Day 2010 Life is But a Dream: What I Wish They Could See Multifaceted Abnormal/ blog: Blogging Against Disablism Day Single Lens Reflections: Flying the Red Flag of Understanding Standing Tall Through Everything : Things You just Don't Think About Tracy Churchman Shares: Blogging Against Disablism Day Ty's Adventures: Blogging Against Disablism Day Wheelie Catholic: I know a person in a wheelchair who... Writer in a Wheelchair: You've Come A Long Way, Baby The View from Room 7609: Not visible doesn't mean not there Disablism and Politics (For example, the political currency of disability, anti-discrimination legislation, etc.) Everyone Else Has a Blog: I live in a marginal constituency think on this: Blogging Against Disablism Day

Mocha Fumes: Monsters in your Closet
Reconcile: What do you need?
Romham A. Bear: If Yer Gonna Grill Me, At Least Do Both Sides
this ain't livin': Do you need assistance?
(cross-posted at FWD/ Forward)