Tag: disability rights

Crossposts

Crosspost: It Goes all Ways

Post author By Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone
Post date Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
2 Comments on Crosspost: It Goes all Ways

“When people think they are fundamentally broken, it affects their freedom to choose.” -Mama Be Good

Tags ableism, cross-disability, disability, disability rights, feminism, health, internalization, living with a disability, perspectives, reproductive choices, reproductive health, reproductive justice, reproductive rights

Crossposts

Crosspost: Rocking (and Flapping) at 1000 Revolutions a Minute

Post author By Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone
Post date Monday, November 28th, 2011
3 Comments on Crosspost: Rocking (and Flapping) at 1000 Revolutions a Minute

[Content warning: mentions of ableism; censored use of the r-word; abusive treatment] I made it down to an Occupy/Decolonize site! I am in the DC area this week for a variety of things. So Tuesday afternoon I went down to the site at McPherson Square for a couple of hours. It was significant for me in […]

Tags 99%, autism, disability, disability rights, OWS

Crossposts

Dutch Political Discourse: Let’s make fun of people with disabilities!

Post author By redlightpolitics
Post date Friday, February 4th, 2011
1 Comment on Dutch Political Discourse: Let’s make fun of people with disabilities!

This week’s infuriating moment courtesy of the gift that keeps giving in bigotry: Geert Wilder’s party, PVV (acronym, in Dutch for the Orwellian name of “Freedom Party“).

Tags accommodations gone wrong, cognitive disabilities, democratic representation, disability rights, freedom party, iq test, iq tests, mainstream media, media buzz, personal circumstances, political discourse, politics, poor attempt, PVV. Geert Wilder, PWD, The Netherlands

Op Ed

Another View of Ableism

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first usage of the word ‘ableism’ in 1981. It’s highly probable that disability rights activists have been using this word much longer; many people are surprised to learn that disability rights activism has a history dating to the 1800s, that people with disabilities have been challenging discrimination against us […]

Tags ableism, cognitive disability, disabilities, disability rights, disability rights activists, disability rights movement, dominant class, equality, invisible illnesses, mental illnesses, oxford english dictionary, people with physical disabilities, radical activists, self diagnosis