Blogging Against Disablism Day is coming!

[alias_sqbr]

Just found out about Blogging Against Disablism Day on May 1 which I will try and be involved in, it's funny how it seems like a much more important issue now that I'm disabled(*).

And so I've said SOMETHING on the subject in the event I forget on the day, two links:
Lazyweb Book request: Disability activism from Hoyden About Town which I mean to poke at when next I go on a "reading non fiction" bender.

Elder and Disabled Porn Targeted By Massachusetts Lawmaker - Proposal Goes Too Far Attemptt to extend over the top "prosecute people for taking pictures of themselves" child porn laws to the disabled and elderly in Massachusetts. Not that I had any intentions of becoming a porn star in Massachusetts, but still, it illustrates the creepy infantalisation that happens.

(*)I'm still getting used to describing myself that way, but afaict I am by pretty much every legal definition even if not the cultural one of "Deaf, blind, or in a wheelchair".

Comments

[evil-megz.livejournal.com]

"Deaf, blind, or in a wheelchair": oh don't forget the psychological disabilities. The cultural label could be "people who look funny or drool on themselves"... which you could no doubt get categorised in if you were to fall asleep in public with your mouth open

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

I have done that on trains before. :(

[alias_sqbr]

Or have cerebral palsy etc :/