Reading List: Mental Health Diversion Courts
Yes, this looks like our daily Recommended Reading posts that Anna does for us every day – but it’s different. Reading List is a selection of links around a single issue or topic, as a start for those...
View ArticleJenny McCarthy & Autism Part III: Spokesperson
This is the third and final part of my discussion about Jenny McCarthy. Part I was If We Shame Parents Enough Maybe Autism Can Be Cured, and Part II was Let’s All Be Normal (Acting). Writing this last...
View ArticleQuoted: Audre Lorde
The supposition that one [group] needs the other’s acquiescence in order to exist prevents both from moving together as self-defined persons toward a common goal. This kind of action is a prevalent...
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Announcing: Helen Keller Mythbusting Blogswarm!
Image Description: A banner that has an image of Helen Keller in the center. On on side it reads: Political Activist. Radical Thinker. Suffragist. Pacifist. Journalist. Socialist. Who was she? On the...
View ArticleNon-Fiction Book Review: Woeful Afflictions, by Mary Klages
In one sentence: Woeful Afflictions discusses representations of blind women in Victorian American literature, both fiction and non-fiction, and by both blind and sighted people. I had some...
View ArticleNon-Fiction Book Review: Signs of Resistance by Susan Burch
If you were lying awake last night thinking “You know what I need? I need to read a well-written, engaging book that deals with Deaf cultural history in the US, and that includes discussion of gender,...
View ArticleFiction Book List!
Almost, but not quite, a year ago today I put a call out on my personal journal looking for recommendations or lists of YA books that feature characters with disabilities. From that call out, I got...
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