Apparently it is Blogging Against Disablism day. I am pretty tired today, so you are going to get random witterings. But hey, it's not as if there's a shortage of material.

( Dignity )

I've been reading an excellent article about white privilege and feminism called This is white privilege by Reni Eddo-Lodge. After a much-needed discussion of racism and transphobia within the modern feminist movement, she goes on to relate her experience of trying to explain what it feels like to be discriminated against to a white woman.

I ( Read more... )

crip_crit is now in existence. It's for discussing the portrayal of disability in literature, TV and film. Everyone is welcome, and ladyvivien, if you don't come over and discuss Collins, I will personally spank you.

Incidentally, could any nice person come up with a good icon we can use for the community? I'm stumped on that one.

I've been thinking about seeing, and how people with disabilities are part of the social construct of looking and being looked at ( Read more... )

I just updated ColorfulTabs, and found myself rather irritated by the language being used, which was no doubt meant well but comes off as condescending. I'm curious to know what other folks think. Please do talk about this further in the comments.

( Poll )

There's a discussion about a recent racial incident going on in a friend's journal. She's a nice liberal person, her friends seem to be nice liberal people, and they're starting from the sort of basis of anti-bigotry that I expect from my friends as well ( Read more... )

Today is International ME/CFS Awareness Day. You can read other blog posts about it here. In its honour, here are a few things you may not know about ME. I'm pulling figures out of articles I've read recently that seemed reputable, though I don't have the energy right now to look up where I got each of the stats from. I may write some more ( Read more... )

Once I can afford it, I'm seriously considering having another try at a netbook. For all of those of you who have them, could you be kind enough to answer these questions for me? I'll have to get an XP version because the RNIB audiobook service only runs on NetPlexTalk, which only runs on Windows.

( List of questions )

I posted to my journal in August about the problem I'm having with my local pharmacy refusing to print prescription labels that I can actually read. I'm finally getting around to writing a letter to them about it, and here's what I've written so far.

( Letter to Boots )

codeman38 and I have just created visual_stress, for anyone who experiences symptoms of visual stress. It's also known as visual processing disorder, Meares-Irlen Syndrome, Irlen Syndrome, or Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome, and it takes the form of unpleasant visual distortions or eyestrain when reading, sometimes with headaches or migraine as well. It's commonly ( Read more... )