It seems to me that the busted things I deal with in my life tend to group themselves into themes. Lately I seem to be dealing with a lot of invisibility and how it seems to steal my voice. Invisibility is often hard to address in the moment, especially when speaking out means I’m going [...]
Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
Well, today is (it’s still the 12th, here) fibromyalgia awareness day. Ironically enough, the fibro fog has me at a loss for writing anything particularly witty or insightful about fibromyalgia syndrome and my experiences with it. So, I’ll just list the take away points I would have liked people to have gotten if I didn’t [...]
The Intersection of Trans and Disability
Foibey, in a post that was was quoted over at Questioning Transphobia, mentions a lot of issues with trans activism, mainly focusing on the lack of our going at the intersections, and also not presenting a front that reflects the systematic nature of our oppression. I know that a lot of my on the streets [...]
BADD and May Day
It’s Blogging Against Disablism Day, and I felt like I should write something before I go about my May Day. I have the time to write this because I don’t have a conventional 9-5 job, right now. I lost my last full time job because of disability. Sitting under flourescent lights, without being able to [...]
91 PWD Arrested Outside the White House
As always, free speech requires a permit: U.S. Park Police arrested 91 people, many in wheelchairs, outside the White House Monday afternoon. Those arrested were part of a group demonstrating in support of legislation that would allow people with disabilities to use federal funding to pay for attendant services in the community rather than nursing [...]
Found a Temporarily Able-Bodied Privilege List
Over at She Dances On The Sand there is a post called The Invisible Crutch. In the style of Peggy McIntosh’s Invisible Knapsack. I believe that it is the first one of the type that I’ve seen in regards to Temporarily Able-Bodied Privilege, and it’s excellent. And as someone else and myself both commented, much [...]
Derailing Specific to Disability
There’s a post up at Hoyden About Town about how TAB (temporarily able-bodied) people derail conversations about disability. Yes, a lot of derailing follows the same general format — the privileged group making it all about them and their experiences — but this particular post is excellent in giving how that specifically applies to disability [...]
Ownership of Bodies
Yesterday, on the bus, I saw a white temporarily able-bodied cis male guy who coded as at least working class and who read as straight, go up to every visible PWD on the bus, and, without any invitation to, offered to pray for them, engaging them in conversations they were very obviously not interested in, [...]
I Knew There Was A Reason I Left Massachusetts
And the state where I was born, home of Paddleboro, outdoes itself again in targeting freedom of sexual expression! via The Legal Satyricon: Massachusetts State Rep, Kathi-Anne Reinstein (D) is targeting adult entertainment involving models over the age of 60 as well as private sexual communications between the elderly (if you can call 60 “elderly” [...]
Ablism in Radical Spaces
I perhaps shouldn’t be surprised that I encounter A LOT of ablism in radical spaces – I’ve been around enough manarchists to know that a lot of radicals don’t do more than pay lip service to ending sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, ablism, etc. while in the midst of smashing the state. And I’m fortunate [...]
