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Category: media critique

Please don’t leave disabled people’s realities out of reproductive justice history.

Feb 13, 2017

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Robin

in ableism, Blog Entries, commentary, disability, media critique, social commentary

(I first published this piece on another blog in April 2014 in response to an article on RH Reality Check – now called Rewire. It’s 2017 now. My writing voice is different. The way I analyze and critique issues is different. Reproductive justice organizations are now making more of an effort to include disability and…
The Kylie Jenner Photo Shoot Is Confused about Sex and Disability Tropes

Dec 4, 2015

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by

Robin

in Blog Entries, Media, media critique, sex and disability, sexuality, sexuality and disability

We need to talk about the fact that Kylie Jenner, a conventionally beautiful able-bodied woman who fits societal standards of beauty in almost every way is allowed to be sexy and edgy in a wheelchair, when that reality is so often denied to many wheelchair using women. We need to talk about the fact that…