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

[alias_sqbr]

I've been thinking about this all day and I honestly can't remember what you're talking about, so I at least wasn't deeply traumatised by the experience :)

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about this all day and I honestly can't remember what you're talking about, so I at least wasn't deeply traumatised by the experience :)

You said something insightful at the boobs panel. Then I went into a comment about breastfeeding because that thought had just occurred to me. But if you don't remember, all is well:-)

[alias_sqbr]

Well, you know, I say so many insightful things, it's hard to keep track of them all :D