We are dying, and apparently it’s our own damn fault. As pointed to by Deborah in the latest Otterday thread, scooter users in Australia are dying. We are dying because footpaths obstructed by cars and tree prunings and rubbish force… Read More ›
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A national electronic health & social record
I’m officially creeped right the fuck out by Trevor Kerr’s article in Croakey, “Why the secrecy about data, when it could help everything from influenza to child protection“. I find any suggestion of national electronic medical records disturbing at the… Read More ›
Fifteenth Down Under Feminists Carnival: July 2009
Welcome to the Fifteenth Edition of down under feminists carnival! This carnival features posts made by Aussie and Kiwi feminists during July, 2009.
Shorten’s disability shakeup – read between the lines
Anyone care to have a go at reading between the lines with this one? Given Shorten’s form on lack of interest in people with invisible disabilities who aren’t fully dependent on a carer, I’m not as hopeful as I’d like… Read More ›
Scooterblogging: I’m Right Here
I just realised I forgot to blog my first Talking-to-my-companion-and-not-me experience. It was a couple of weeks ago. The Lad (6) and I were meandering down the footpath. We were chatting about life, and he was resting his hand on… Read More ›
Traumatic brain injury is not “pretending”, Clementine Ford.
Well, this is one of the most enormous pieces of disability fail I’ve seen in the mainstream media for quite a while; and it comes not from Andrew Bolt and friends, but from someone who calls herself a feminist. I… Read More ›
Tech Tips: Obscuring Spoilers in Comments – Screen Reader Accessible!
Spoilers in comments. They’re an ongoing issue. And holding back from spoilers can close off productive areas of discussion. Sometimes in comments, when I write some spoilerish stuff, I obscure it with black on black, like this: This is a… Read More ›
On Insanity: Ladies Nervously Affected
While participating in the Feministe thread on fibromyalgia, I’ve been re-reading a few UK-based journal papers on how chronic fatigue syndrome is all in our heads and shit. I just re-stumbled across this little nugget from the British Medical Journal,… Read More ›
…. with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard”
Just found out on the grapevine – because these places and dates are not available on the FaHSCIA website – that the only Sydney public consultation on the proposed new draconian national disabled parking restrictions is: In Parramatta. On Friday… Read More ›
Zing.
We interrupt your regular schedule of ranting, rainbows, and roundups for this important announcement: Scoot! Whee! Zing! Audience Participation Component: – It doesn’t have a name yet. – I am not planning to “pimp” it (shudder), but recommendations for Aussie… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 