Katie Jones and Deus ex machina

The story of Katie Jones has been circulating slowly on disability listservs and blogs since the December 9 article in the Chicago Tribune ....

On Ruben Navarro

If you read just one thing this week about disability in America, read this . I briefly mentioned Navarro's case here but the above lin...

Doctors involved with Ashley Treatment not as unified in support as previously indicated

From today's Salon.com, Rebecca Clarren reports in "Behind the Pillow Angel" that: Doctors at the Seattle hospital that opera...

Blind Rage and the legacy of Helen Keller

It wasn't until I began reading Georgina Kleege's Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Heller that I realized my own ambivalence to the dea...

I am tired

Because fear and hatred of disabled people hides in people's hearts in the same way as sexism, transphobia and racism: Ashley is not a ...

Once more for 2006

Inclusion Daily Express lists the top disability rights news stories in the U.S. for 2006. Less obvious stories about disability rights tha...

Still thinking on Ashley

I'm crossposting this comment of mine from a discussion I'm participating in elsewhere: One thing I find so frustrating about the wi...

Ashley Treatment discussion at Pandagon

I regularly enjoy reading the feminist posts and discussions at Pandagon, but the recent coverage there of the story of Ashley X and the me...

The Ashley Treatment

Not a good time to write in detail about what I think, here are some other folks who have expressed what's on my mind better than I cou...

On mental capacity

I felt on top of the discussion yesterday afternoon , but it's shot way ahead of me by midnight last night. I'll get into it more, b...

"Frozen girl" discussed on TV tonight

If my sources are right, there should be a discussion tonight on CNN's Nancy Grace show of the "frozen girl" and the ethics o...

My déjà vu

Wednesday, November 8, 1989 was a beautiful day in Tempe, AZ, with the sky a cloudless blue. I was up early, waiting at the front desk of Pa...