Call for submissions on feminism, disability & activism

From the f word : The Feminist Activist Forum is calling for submissions for a zine on feminism, disability and activism: Disability has b...

Back again, but this time here to stay

My introduction at Alas, A Blog : Hi all. My name is Kay Olson (known in the past and in the archives here as Blue or Blue Lily ) and I writ...

My fat (but actually very normal-sized) legs

Almost a year ago, I mentioned some good news about weight gain . Recall that I was starvation-level underweight just two years ago for a va...

The DaDa Awards

Liz Crow and her Roaring Girl Productions is my biggest blogging failure. Liz and I first exchanged emails well over a year ago and I volun...

The next Ashley X

Her name is Katie Thorpe . Other bloggers have been covering this latest story. Penny has the link collection here . Let her know if you got...

Not "legless": Ten pairs of legs!

There's been a discussion making the rounds on feminist blogs about a recent Sports Illustrated story on Aimee Mullins, double-amputee...

Like peanut butter and chocolate

Two great tastes -- together. Summer is the season of guest blogging and Bint of My Private Casbah is at Feministe this week. How deliciou...

Miss Ability lays down on the job

Back in January, I wrote about the Dutch show Miss Ability : Miss Ability has been called the surprise hit of Dutch television in 2006, bu...

Eyes on whose prize, part 2

It was during the transphobia/delink Twisty debates across feminist bloglandia last December that Kactus at Superbabymama happened to note ...

One of the perks. . .

of having a disability -- some specific impairment (take your pick) -- is that you get to say original, thought-provoking things like this:...

Eyes on whose prize

I want to speak my own truth, and honor the words of others when they speak theirs. I want to be an ally, but I don't want to get in the...

On being a good girl

Posted to the latest Disability Carnival at DisStudies, Temple U, Dave Hingsburger of Chewing the Fat writes about "The Good Girl...

Transgender story on All My Children

From the Texarkana Gazette : The story that AMC has weaved with the telling of Zoe’s tale has been wonderful. Amazing. And it surprises me. ...

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 ...

On the Chicago protest against AMA

From the Associated Press A report from protestor and FRIDA member Amber Smock on the events of the day: We targeted the AMA because it san...

Bush won't renominate anti-disability rights judge for appeals court

The Associated Press reports that : In a concession to the Senate's new Democratic majority, President Bush won't rename four contro...

FRIDA protests Ashley Treatment at AMA tomorrow

From the press release : At 1 p.m. on Thursday, January 11, Feminist Response in Disability Activism (FRIDA), with the support of other dis...

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...

Miss Ability: Judging disabled women's beauty

Miss Ability has been called the surprise hit of Dutch television in 2006, but the Times Online reported last week that the rights to the ...