Blogging Against Disablism Day

Blogging Against Disablism day will be on Sunday, 1st May 2016.   This is the day where all around the world, disabled and non-disabled people blog about their experiences, observations and thoughts about disability discrimination (known as disablism...

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ANNOUCEMENT

Sadly Blogging Against Disablism Day won't be happening this year.  We've had a difficult winter and won't be able to organise it.  We hope to be back in 2019.  So until then, take care of yourselves.

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Dear Science

Dear Science, I love you. I do not, in the slightest, lie when I proclaim this. However, love is not a condition in which you simply accept the problems something has. Because I love you, science, and...

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This post was written for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2017. In 2013 I began working on what I think of as Jonah’s Book. (It doesn’t have a proper title yet.) I had read Alison Tyler’s Dark Secre…

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A blog about everything, but mostly living autistic because I am.

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BADD 2017: The Complexities of I can't | Un-Boxed Brain

Today is the tenth annual Blogging Against Disablism Day. Last night, I hastily scribbled down 'the complexities of can't'.

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Guess who's back, back again, Cara's back, tell a friend! I skipped BADD last year due to overwhelming stress from internships, but I'm bac...

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When I explain my college-related difficulties to people, they tell me that if I go to disability services, they will help me and try to acc...

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Able Bodied People You Are Not Entitled To Know Details Of Our Disabilities. #BADD2017

May the 1st 2017 was Blogging Against Disablism (Ableism) Day. There are so many topics I wanted to write about but I had to settle for one that I have been dying to address which is → Able bodied …

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This post is part of the Blogging Against Disablism initiative for 2017. Ableism is the North American term, and so that is what I use. Ableism/Disablism is discrimination and prejudice against peo…

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Our Disability Adviser, Janet Mearns, explores some of the employment issues facing parents of disabled ...

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This post is inspired by #BADD2017, Blogging against disablism day. What if your style of communication was always pathologized? This thought started while listening to an “inclusive” (…

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Today is Blogging Against Disablism Day. It would also have been my discharge date from the mental institution. Unfortunately, virtually no after care has been arranged yet. This didn’t keep …

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Blogging Against Disablism Day 2017 In 1993, autistic advocate Jim Sinclair wrote “Don’t Mourn For Us.” It read “This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that…