Tag Archives: Disability
I am not wrong – The worst story you’ll read all day
Tweet*Trigger warning* Sexual assault is a notoriously under-reported crime. And we should all know why. Study upon study has shown, women who have experienced rape and other sexual assault often find that reporting the crime and being subject to the subsequent interrogations often feels like a “second victimization” (see the report linked above for much [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: MEAN Little deaf Queer
TweetIn Terry Galloway’s funny, fast-moving, family-oriented memoir, MEAN Little deaf Queer, the reader gets the sense that there couldn’t possibly be anyone more entertaining to have a beer with than Galloway. She’s a storyteller of the most exquisite variety–focusing on all the right, telling details, taking you into literal and emotional worlds that feel both [...]
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CA bill would add LGBT people and people with disabilities to social studies syllabi
TweetYesterday, the California state senate passed a bill that would require public schools to add LGBT people and people with disabilities to the list of groups whose contributions to American society are recognized in social studies curricula. The New York Times reports that, … starting in the 2013-14 school year, [the bill] would prohibit districts [...]
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Guest Post: Intersecting Passions: Disability & Feminism
Tweet Sins Invalid is a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Our performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body. We are a night away from our opening performance of Knotting Stories [...]
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Sins Invalid: The film