Funky Mango writes about the "One Million for Disability" campaign across the European Union. There's a petition too, aimed at collecting at least one million citizens’ signatures because, as stated in the draft European Union Constitutional Treaty, the EU must respond to a call from a million or more citizens demanding action.
A review from the archives of Autism Diva on Mozart and the Whale. I recently saw the movie about a romance between two people with Asperger's, and as I wrote elsewhere:
One of the things that struck me is that it is a film about people with Asperger's and it's not mediated by someone without autism. You know, there's no Tom Cruise to Dustin Hoffman's Rainman. There's no nondisabled character within the story interpreting or analyzing the main characters. I thought that was important and refreshing.Mark Siegel at The 19th Floor writes in "Its Capital is Cripopolis" about a new study that shows disabled people hold the same prejudices about other disabled folks as the nondisabled do. The study itself is interesting too.
Ricky Taylor at RidorLIVE.com covers the radio show where comedian Lisa Lampanelli ridiculed Deaf people. Yep, on radio, where they couldn't immediately respond:
Lisa Lampanelli: I was always [wondering] if God would maybe think my act was awful and make me deaf so I cant do comedy no more, ’cause that’s why people are deaf; ’cause god hates them.
Male DJ: Now, listen, Lisa.
LL: God hates deaf people, what is wrong with you?
Male DJ: There are gonna be a lot of deaf people there.
LL: Oh, I hope so.
Female DJ: Well there will be. There’s a college within RIT [Rochester Institute of Technology] that’s specifically for deaf students.
LL: Don’t you think deaf students, could be maybe just retarded, and they’re trying to sneak by saying they are deaf?
Male DJ: Lighten up a little bit.
Liberal Catnip on "The Politics of Powerlessness":
It seems that unless you have a large, visible wound or a tumour you can flash on an x-ray, they simply cannot accept that you might actually suffer from pain and other equally annoying symptoms every day. And, even if we did have those things to show them, they seem to always come up with a story - either theirs (which is not similar) or someone else's (like Lance Armstrong's amazing feats, for examples) as proof that you should just get over it, rise up and live a normal life. You're either a loser or a hero. There is no middle ground. Oh, and the fact that you can write a few words on a blog is apparently proof of your power to have a career in journalism or professional writing. (Little do people know about the agony that intermingles those blog posts).Liz at The Trouble with Spikol on "Intent to Kill?" about mental illness, intent to kill, and an insurance company refusing to pay on a murdered woman's policy.
They're wrong.
The effect that sort of attitude has is the infliction of oppression. That's the broader topic here - that there will always be those with more power who use it to demean and attempt to control others.
Charles Dawson at The Meanderings of a Politically Incorrect Crip writes "Sitting on the horns of a dilemma is painful and not only if you have piles" about a disabled woman in the UK who won a court case against a personal care company that refused to lift her in and out of her wheelchair.
Katya at Broken Clay often travels for business and always has accessibility adventures to share.
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