This post is a part of Blogging Against Disablism Day. Update: BADD isn’t over yet, but if you want to get a start on reading the posts, check out the roundup at Diary of a Goldfish. For most people, health… Read More ›
Day: 2008-05-01
Quick link: no link between NT indigenous community permit system and child abuse
Andrew Bartlett writes: The previous federal government used the spectre of child sexual abuse as justification to scrap the permit system contained in the Land Rights Act, which required people wishing to visit Aboriginal freehold land in the Northern Territory… Read More ›
Blogging Against Disablism: Mental Illness, Stigmatisation, Coming Out
This is going to be short because if I try and make it a grand narrative I might chicken out of coming out. I am disabled. My disability is invisible. I have a mental illness. I have a disorder of… Read More ›
Passing it on: Red Shield Day volunteers needed in South Sydney
Got an email from my MP: The Salvation Army has approached me to help recruit volunteers in South Sydney to participate in the Red Shield appeal on 24-25 May. In particular we need people in Rosebery, Redfern/Waterloo, and Erskineville. I… Read More ›
“Save Second Base!”: The Reaction responds
The Reaction: ” Fighting against breast cancer… and also against breast cancer campaigns” LindaBeth lays bare the sexist framework of some breast cancer awareness campaigns: “We men” love “boobies,” so we’ll work real hard so you don’t have to have… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 