Back in the day, the left was all about protesting for rights for marginalized people, and the right fought for a more individualistic, pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps ideology. Another thread from Kelly, this time on something I’ve also noticed in my life: this individualistic right-wing ideology in left-leaning friends: Had a discussion with
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A Puff of Absurdity: How to Profit from Pandemics
Three threads from this week outline the political and media pandemic protocol being followed around the world, the similarities and differences between prior pandemics, and how the profit motive fuels it all. Prognostic Chats outlined a baker’s dozen of steps taken by many countries to get us to this damaging
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Covid and the Brain
Two slightly different takes from lengthy threads on how the brain operates in such a way that makes it ignore Covid risks as it protects us from the trauma caused by Covid risks: First, career coach Lisa Petsinis outlined how we think about Covid and why we aren’t acting on it. In
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Vulnerable will Fall by the Wayside
Fauci’s line to the BBC, “The vulnerable will fall by the wayside,” said while projecting that we’re unlikely to have another tsunami of cases of death as happened with Delta or early Omicron, reveals an acceptance of callousness around mortality now that would have been absolutely unnerving four years ago. It’s
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The System of Ableism Can Be Weaponized Against Anyone
Imani Barbarin is a wealth of information and so funny! If you’re new new to TikTok, and you think it’s all just dumb trends like eating Tide pods, Crutches & Spice is a great starting place to remove that bias against the younger forms of social media. Like any social media, it’s only
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Ableism Affects Everyone – Even You
Happy Friday, everyone! Here’s a fun TikTok explaining how ableism comes back to bite you in the butt in less than 2 minutes: @khoyadoc you’re not gonna be “fine”. #ableism #capitalism #disability #longcovid #covid19 #left ♬ original sound – khoya doc
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Self-Diagnosis with Checklist Criteria: the Big Five and ASD
When I was a kid, my folks said I was a little slow to warm up to people and sometimes needed a nudge to interact. Then, in grade 11, we all had to do this really long test, filling in stacks of Scantron-type cards with our answers, which were fed
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Ableism, Community Living and the Myth of Independence
Recently, I’ve seen a trend that worries me. Social media disability support groups are commonly hosting conversation in which independence is trumpeted as an aspiration and fundamental element of human worth. Independence is the necessary ingredient to The disability movement has always been fractured. There are parents who seek safety
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: The politics of “ableism” and hard-working babies
If there was a party game that could be applied to the recent provincial election, it would have involved some kind of participant action every time a politician uttered the words “hard-working families.” It’s an odd phrase – does that … Continue reading →
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Things I realize after getting many hater-comments & trolls: On #Intersectionality, #oppression & other stuff
Things I realize after getting many hater-comments and trolls: 1) The world is not ready for Critical Race Theory or talking about the process of “Whiteness” and “racialization”. I thought […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Deafness, speech and the Performance of Gender
Deafness, speech and the Performance of Gender This weekend I had the privilege of participating in a conference on Disability and Ableism at Ryerson University. Let me just say first that it is an incredible feeling to be among people fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). To see them speak
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Worth Sharing: A Special Olympian Calls Out Ann Coulter’s Choice of Insults
Via the Special Olympics blog: Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult? I’m a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public’s perception that an intellectual disability
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