Daily Reading (01 May 2015)

[nanila]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

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[davidgillon]

A whole bunch of the Blogging Against Disablism Day posts, indexed from here (and now in its 10th year). So posts from a variety of mostly-disabled authors about the Disablism (or Ableism) we encounter in our lives.

I posted about disablism being embraced in current party manifestos, while posts I've read include some good stuff from Kathryn Allan, co-editor of the forthcoming 'Accessing the Future' on problems with the intersection of disability studies, academia in general, literary studies in particular and SF/F academia in the most specific (including a pretty spectacular *headdesk* in a Science Fiction Research Association CFP); a pretty horrific post on what happens to learning disabled and neurodivergent kids put in mandated care settings sometimes hundreds of miles from home, a description of on-street harassment that rings very true with my owm experiences, and an interesting post on needing to stop infighting within UK disability activism from a friend of mine.

ETA: If you're looking for my post it's tagged as Where's the Benefit? as I posted it there rather than at my personal blog.

[davidgillon]

And separately, but intersecting with the BADD stuff, a paper from the Journal of Disability Studies analysing the Oxford Reading Tree books and their treatment of disability.