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disability blog carnival #43

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I got carnivaled again! I wonder if that's how 
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The latest Carnival of Feminists is up. Unfortunately, this time around it included a link to one of m Andrea (remember her from the "retards" post?)'s posts saying nasty, erroneous things about transgendered people.

I don't have much to say -- people should already know I find such stuff inappropriate, and the Carnival host took the link down. Also ( Read more... )

Okay, so Ren fisked this bizarre rant better than I could anyway, and I really have no time to bother with it anyway. But I feel the need to snark one little snark. :)

Source post:
I’m not a “sex-positive” feminist, inasmuch as that term is used to refer to the kinds of people who believe that women, by adopting the piggish sexual attitudes of men ( Read more... )

...is up at Ms. Crip Chick's blog.

My favorite so far (too busy grading papers to read most of it, but have read a few and will read more on breaks) is this, from the inimitable, wonderful Wheelchair Dancer, on the pleasures of the disabled body:
I am a new person with a new body. And I am having fun with it. There are days when I cry from dull pain ( Read more... )

The topic of "allies" has been coming up a lot lately, and I've been trying to think of something to post for ABW's carnival on that very topic (does that carnival have a set date, anyway?)

A friend of mine posted that feminist blogs should be saved for feminist issues, and the whole Gordian knot of "ally work" and what it means is key to why I ( Read more... )

The next Disability Blog Carnival is on disability identity.

I came to such an identity rather late. I've always been told my disability is "mild." It always got shunted off and ignored, aside from the Big Surgery I was supposed to have at sixteen. I ignored it. Kids asked me what was wrong with my legs and I told them and they buzzed off after that ( Read more... )

Posted my entry in it, but didn't link IT, so:

Disability Blog Carnival #19: Sex and Disability