Things That Make My Life Easier, An Invitation (Part 3 of 3)
Cross-posted: three rivers fog, FWD/Forward, Feministe. Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 This is a series I always hoped would catch on. Because hey, I can write about stuff that helps me live my life, but that’s only one experience. I would love to see a community full of people writing resource posts [...]
...read moreThings That Make My Life Easier, A Reintroduction (Part 2 of 3)
Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 In the realm of disability, there is a lot of terminology like: assistive device, accommodation, care services, mobility aid, various sorts of therapy/treatment (physical/behavioral/occupational/speech/etc.); and so forth, about things/people/services which fill various common needs that people with disabilities share. The unfortunate thing about these terms is that [...]
...read moreTransit cuts hurt car drivers too
The Post-Gazette has a story today detailing the costs of transit cuts in the city of Pittsburgh. The city’s Port Authority needs $47 million to avoid cuts of 35 percent. According to the P-G, the Port Authority would have to reduce services hours by 35 percent, lay off 555 employees, and eliminate more than 40 [...]
...read moreThings That Make My Life Easier, A Reintroduction (Part 1 of 3)
A long time ago, I decided to start up a series. I lacked a catchy title, so I went with the mere truth: Things That Make My Life Easier. What I meant by that is, of course, things that make my life with a disability easier. Disability can introduce certain complications to a life — [...]
...read morehello again
You might’ve seen me around these parts before. My name is amandaw and you can find my writing at FWD/Forward, my personal blog, and my Tumblr. That’s more-or-less in reverse order of posting frequency. I am a cross-country transplant with several chronic pain conditions attempting to balance her life while working full-time. I have two [...]
...read moreWith that, I bid a late farewell.
I am the person who was still making up six exams within three days of her high school graduation. I pushed myself pretty hard these last two weeks, and never quite got to the posts I was planning on writing here. :) And ended up with a couple contentious threads, leading to some, um, not [...]
...read moreDisability Is…?
We had a really good discussion about nondisability. It got derailed, a bit, because it depended on our ability to reasonably define disability. And it’s a subject that has come up in every discussion we’ve had these couple weeks. What is it? I advocate an intentionally overbroad definition of disability. And I definitely see a [...]
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Things that make my life easier: TENS edition
Oh, this post has been a long time coming! 2008 was a rough year on me. That January, I began having persistent lower back pain that did not go away like most pain flare-ups eventually do. I went to the doctor, and I was sent for x-rays and ultrasounds, then scheduled for a laparoscopy to [...]
...read moreIn nursing homes, black residents receiving worse care than white residents
The Chicago Reporter did an investigation revealing poorer ratings for majority-black homes in Illinois than majority-white homes: An investigation by The Chicago Reporter found that Illinois is arguably the worst state in the nation for Black senior citizens seeking quality nursing home care. There is just one home in Illinois rated “excellent” by the federal [...]
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Friday Catblogging
I took the kitties in for their yearly vaccinations this week. Buddy needs to be vaccinated because his immune system is compromised; Mitsy needs to be vaccinated so that she doesn’t catch the virus from her brother. So I always get nervous around this time of year. (You can read their story from last year.) [...]
...read moreQuick hit: eXtreme victim-blaming!
The title of the press release: “Promiscuous men more likely to rape” The title of the Telegraph article: “Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists. Women who drink alcohol, wear short skirts and are outgoing are more likely to be raped, claim scientists at the University of Leicester.” The researcher who [...]
...read morePerfect
I, and others, have been mulling over how to refer to people who are not disabled. Roughly, our options seem to be: * normal, or non-marked identity: centering a certain body/mind as “normal” necessarily implies that any difference makes a person less than. It tends to imply that “normal” is accepted as good, whole, while [...]
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