I am sorry that I haven’t blogged lately but I’ve been having a lot of health problems and barely used a computer the last several weeks. Hopefully, things will get back to normal now. March is National Women’s History Month and I plan to feature prominent women in history with disabilities on the blog throughout the month. This new series start tomorrow so be sure to check it out!
In the meantime, here are a few of the disability-feminist reads I wanted to share from the past couple weeks:
Eva from The Deal with Disability had a guest post at Lesbilicious on being queer and disabled:
Queer people have to come out all the time to family, friends, co-workers, and confused strangers, and it’s really tiring. I have to come out four-fold. I have to come out as a female, as an intelligent adult, as a queer person, and as a butch dyke.
Jennifer Bartlett has an interview with artist Sunuara Taylor up at Feministing entitled Feminism, Disability, and John Currin in which Taylor talks about the social model of disability:
Under this model, the word disabled is used to describe the disabling environment and culture that different bodies live in (for example stairs and negative stereotypes disable me). Impairment is used to describe one’s body, one’s diagnosis (which is in itself arguably a cultural creation). When I hear or say ‘disabled people’ I think of people who are oppressed not by their bodies (or not only by their bodies), but by a discriminating and inaccessible world.
Over at FWD/Forward, amandaw has a really interesting post on how mainstream feminism fails to meet the needs of many women:
A white woman is marginalized in a different way than a Latina woman is. And a Latina woman is marginalized in a different way than an indigenous woman! A nondisabled woman is marginalized in a different way than a paraplegic woman is… and a paraplegic woman is marginalized in a different way than a bipolar woman is. An upper-middle-class woman in urban New York is marginalized in a different way than a poor woman in urban New York — and a poor woman in New York is marginalized in a different way than a poor woman in Indiana.
There are different mechanisms of marginalization for different types of people — and the greater your difference from the presumed default person, the more different your type of marginalization looks than the privileged-other-than-gender woman.
Finally, the 63rd Disability Blog Carnival is up. The theme is relationships so go peruse away!
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