I used to blog a lot. Since the TPGA dialogues I... haven't, so much. I would like to again.
So to get back in the habit of throwing new text onto this website, a new Recommended Reading post, in two acts.
1) Videos
Fun fact: I can be seen in this video, and so can many of my friends!
If you haven't yet watched the Loud Hands Project video, or read about this exciting new campaign on their fundraising page, you should definitely check it out. If you haven't donated yet, there are 13 days left in which to do so!
Also from Alternate Assessment Productions comes a new take on the "shit X say to Y" meme.
2) Rebuttals
Argument: "Everyone in the special needs community needs to stop getting so darn offended and just get along!"
Rebuttal: I'll Take Offense, If You Don't Mind, by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg
Argument: "I don't have to listen to what you say about autism because my kid is more severely affected than you/than your kid."
Rebuttal: "My Kid Isn't Like You(rs)!" by Melody at ASParenting
Showing posts with label recommended reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recommended reading. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Recommended Reading: Writer's Block Edition
I have been trying to write a post and trying to write a post and trying to write a post. In the meantime, it has been so long since my last post that a friend from college feared that I might be dead. I have things to say! And slowly they are being typed, and eventually they will end up here. In the meantime, here are links:
Amanda recently started posting pieces of the Autistic Passing Project, which is an art project that she made using quotes from anonymous autistic people on the subject of passing. She's done an awesome job of collecting quotes and arranging them in a visually interesting way. Anyone who thinks that trying to be "indistiguishable from peers" makes autistic people happier should read this.
In response to the ridiculousness of Simon Baron-Cohen's latest book, autistic author Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg started the website Autism and Empathy. She has collected a bunch of academic articles refuting the lack-of-empathy myth. She's also accepting submissions!
Why So Much Abuse Is Allowed to Continue in Residential Care is an excellent article published, surprisingly, by TIME. It discusses human nature, Milgram, and the corrupting influence of power. The author also suggests policies which need to be put in place to reduce institutional abuse, such as surprise inspections. The article's one failing is that it does not mention de-institutionalization, which is, of course, the best way to keep disabled people out of abusive institutions.
Finally, here's an awesome disabled historical figure: Götz von Berlichigen, a badass sixteenth-century knight who used a very advanced prosthetic arm and pioneered the phrase "kiss my ass."
Amanda recently started posting pieces of the Autistic Passing Project, which is an art project that she made using quotes from anonymous autistic people on the subject of passing. She's done an awesome job of collecting quotes and arranging them in a visually interesting way. Anyone who thinks that trying to be "indistiguishable from peers" makes autistic people happier should read this.
In response to the ridiculousness of Simon Baron-Cohen's latest book, autistic author Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg started the website Autism and Empathy. She has collected a bunch of academic articles refuting the lack-of-empathy myth. She's also accepting submissions!
Why So Much Abuse Is Allowed to Continue in Residential Care is an excellent article published, surprisingly, by TIME. It discusses human nature, Milgram, and the corrupting influence of power. The author also suggests policies which need to be put in place to reduce institutional abuse, such as surprise inspections. The article's one failing is that it does not mention de-institutionalization, which is, of course, the best way to keep disabled people out of abusive institutions.
Finally, here's an awesome disabled historical figure: Götz von Berlichigen, a badass sixteenth-century knight who used a very advanced prosthetic arm and pioneered the phrase "kiss my ass."
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Recommended Reading (and Donating)
I have a lot of links to talk up and that means it's time for recommended reading!
Asher wrote Critical Condition about a clinic in San Francisco called Lyon Martin. Lyon Martin provides respectful health care on a sliding scale to women and trans people. One of my friends gets hormones from Lyon Martin, and it has really made a difference for them to have access to this level of care. But Lyon Martin may have to close, and they're asking for donations so that they can stay open. If you can afford it, please donate on their website!
Amanda, Julia and I are starting a new disability group blog! It's called LOVE-NOS, and it's filling the hole that FWD left in our lives. If you want to be a contributor or write a guest post, please let one of us know. All the posts that are currently up there are great, and you should definitely check it out.
Amanda and I also started bad brains wearing clothes, which is kind of silly but also awesome. It's basically a brain disability fashion blog.
Finally, please read Insanely Cruel, which is everything I wanted to say after the Giffords shooting even though it was written before the Giffords shooting. It's about the assumption that anyone who would kill a lot of people must be "crazy," and how that comes from people's unwillingness to acknowledge their own capacity for evil, and how it's really ableist. This piece is short, too, and it's really important and you should just go read it.
Asher wrote Critical Condition about a clinic in San Francisco called Lyon Martin. Lyon Martin provides respectful health care on a sliding scale to women and trans people. One of my friends gets hormones from Lyon Martin, and it has really made a difference for them to have access to this level of care. But Lyon Martin may have to close, and they're asking for donations so that they can stay open. If you can afford it, please donate on their website!
Amanda, Julia and I are starting a new disability group blog! It's called LOVE-NOS, and it's filling the hole that FWD left in our lives. If you want to be a contributor or write a guest post, please let one of us know. All the posts that are currently up there are great, and you should definitely check it out.
Amanda and I also started bad brains wearing clothes, which is kind of silly but also awesome. It's basically a brain disability fashion blog.
Finally, please read Insanely Cruel, which is everything I wanted to say after the Giffords shooting even though it was written before the Giffords shooting. It's about the assumption that anyone who would kill a lot of people must be "crazy," and how that comes from people's unwillingness to acknowledge their own capacity for evil, and how it's really ableist. This piece is short, too, and it's really important and you should just go read it.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Recommended Reading: Finals Week Edition
Okay, so it's finals week and I want to write a post but I don't have time to write my own post so instead I'll link to other people's posts. These are all things I've found recently that I think are important and wanted to share. The "recommended reading" post itself is in the style of FWD-Forward, which does a similar link roundup every weekday and which I would most definitely recommend.
First, Amanda recently did a series of posts on the concept of "social skills" that changed the way I think. They are collected here:
Social Skills Don't Exist
Secondly! My friend Asher wrote a Trans 101 that explains sex and gender identity without using transphobic language.
Not Your Mom's Trans 101
I found this brilliant essay by Cal Montgomery a while ago. It deals with a lot of things, but mostly the way that people talk about dependence as it relates to disability.
Critic of the Dawn
Finally, some takes on aspects of Glee that have annoyed the fuck out of me recently:
Dear Ryan Murphy: I have words about Glee
Glee: A Very Glee Christmas
First, Amanda recently did a series of posts on the concept of "social skills" that changed the way I think. They are collected here:
Social Skills Don't Exist
Secondly! My friend Asher wrote a Trans 101 that explains sex and gender identity without using transphobic language.
Not Your Mom's Trans 101
I found this brilliant essay by Cal Montgomery a while ago. It deals with a lot of things, but mostly the way that people talk about dependence as it relates to disability.
Critic of the Dawn
Finally, some takes on aspects of Glee that have annoyed the fuck out of me recently:
Dear Ryan Murphy: I have words about Glee
Glee: A Very Glee Christmas
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