New Blog By Feminists With Disabilities

There’s a new feminist blog on the block, and it’s one that I was incredibly excited to read about. It’s called FWD/Forward (feminists with disabilities for a way forward), and it’s about disability issues and the ways in which disability rights activism and feminism intersect. The list of contributors is absolutely stellar and includes some of my favorite bloggers, and the content they’ve got up so far covers a wide range of topics and is just excellent.

A bit more about the blog, from the introductory post:

We’re still nailing down the specifics and working out the fine details of things like our comments policy, but in the coming months, you can look forward to:

• A disability kindy (pre-101) series for people who are new to disability rights activism
• Disability 101 for kindy graduates
• A series of basic intersectionality posts specifically for feminists who are new to disability issues
• Consciousness-raising posts about identifying as a person with disabilities
• Discussions about how people without disabilities and feminists without disabilities in particular interact with people with disabilities
• Disability news quick-hits on ongoing disability issues in the news
• Link roundups featuring disability news and writing on disability issues from around the Internet
• Discussions about the language of disability rights activism, from differing terminology used internationally to the specific language used by individual groups which advocate for disability rights
• Posts about the disproportionate amount of sexual, physical, and social abuse targeted at women with disabilities
• Posts about people with invisible disabilities and mental illnesses and challenges unique to those groups
• Posts about the relationship between disability rights activism, social policy, and the law
• Discussions of how to be an ally to feminists with disabilities
• AND MORE!

Head on over and check it out, and don’t forget to add it to your blog readers.