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don't mind me, i'm just fullll of piss and vinegar lately...
What's Lost in Prenatal Testing
Why Encourage Testing for Down Syndrome ( Read more... ) -
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*whew* I wish things would slow down a bit, I am so exhausted lately.
Attended the End Exclusion event yesterday [btw, PLEASE PLEASE everyone sign the declaration - normally I view most online petitions as ineffectual, but given the number of media and political ppl in attendance at the event, I think this one might have some weight ( Read more... ) -
Access Denied (via BBC Radio 1 Documentaries)
Thankfully, this is never a problem in Ottawa. *rolls eyes*
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/tvradio/accessdenied/index.shtml
Access Denied
Monday 24 July, 2006
How easy is it to enjoy live music if you're a disabled gig-goer? How annoying is forking out full price ( Read more... ) -
Disabled women at risk
Shelters become more accessible
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"There aren't enough safe accessible spaces out there," says Verlia Stephens, program director of the Assaulted Women's Help Line, a 24-hour telephone crisis service that includes a TTY teletype line for anyone who is deaf ( Read more... ) -
another one from The Gimp Parade
Often, the argument against compliance to the ADA is that disabled people are demanding something "extra" and their quest for equality oppresses business owners or employers who must suddenly provide something additional to the disabled person that no one else is asking for. The implied belief is that the nondisabled person never asks for anything ( Read more... ) -
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And people tell me that discrimination against disabled people is nothing like discrimination based on race or gender... that, and I'm also supposed to believe that inaccessibility isn't intentional at least some of the time... yeah, whatever:
Only a few months before the ADA's 1990 passage, Smith, his future wife, and three other couples went for ( Read more... ) -
nabbed from bookgirlwa
Before she became a paraplegic, Los Angeles resident DeVonna Cervantes liked to dye her pubic hair ‘fun colours’ - turquoise, purple, jet black. After DeVonna became disabled, a beautician friend of hers came to the rehabilitation unit and, as a Christmas present, dyed DeVonna’s pubic hair a hot pink ( Read more... ) -
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"If we have learned one thing from the civil rights movement... it's that when others speak for you ( Read more... )