Tag: disability rights
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A Small Step Forward for Blind Parents
I wrote a while back about the multi-layered and inexcusable discrimination many disabled parents face. There’s nothing about having a disability that makes someone less capable of parenting. That feels too obvious to even say, but it’s a truth, obvious or not, that needs to be repeated over and over until people get it, until…
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Amplifying Disabled Parents’ Voices: The White House Forum and Beyond
In thirty-five states (and the District of Columbia), children can’t trust that their healthy, happy family will be able to stay together if one or both of their parents is disabled. That means that in almost three quarters of the U.S. the law allows for children to be removed from their parents based on parental…
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September Ready, Sexy, Able Round-Up
September brought us news and views on the state of sex ed in the United states (not good), disabled women’s access to sexual health care (also not great), the complex mathematical calculations that go into whether and how to reveal a disability in an online dating profile, and more. Here on Ready Sexy, Able, we…
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Book Review: CRIPTIQUES
I cannot talk about illness and how it affects me, without mentioning how it is tied to my immigration status, or my choices and access as a queer upper class woman. The axes of benefits and struggles at which I find myself leads to a particular set of options. From there, I make choices. There,…
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Ready, Sexy, Able: August News and Views Round-Up
August brought us a lot of personal narratives, powerful, funny, sad, and thoughtful. Topics include respectful personal care, dating, not-so-accessible sex toys, a moving day-in-the-life of a support worker for disabled folks who’ve experienced sexual violence, and so much more. Disability Rights A Bill of Rights as an Autonomous Disabled Person No One Wants to…