Cherry Darling
The representation of people with disabilities in cinema has long been a bone of contention with both cultural critics and people with disabilities. [There's a nifty bibliography with many links here.] Too much of the time, disabilities are portrayed within [...]
Reprise: What's it like to have one leg?
I don’t blog on disability issues very much, but I noticed at tigtog’s place a link to a blog that’s new to me – The Gimp Parade, and also via that link, I became aware of one of the very [...]
Dear NSW Liberals and your media mates: judge not lest ye be judged!
Let me begin this post with a sad, potentially very sad, story which turned out to have a happy ending.
"Laughing at the disabled"
Update: I’ve written a post on the latest development in this affair, the suspension of Hookham and MacLennan for six months without pay, which I think is a completely over the top reaction, and says something very dodgy about QUT. [...]
Concern trolls
The vileness of the American conservative noise machine is unbelievable. Even more unbelievable is the fact that the mainstream media constantly picks up on right wing talking points (saves journos and hosts from having to think for themselves). The latest [...]
Casuistry Challenge IX
This is partly a riff from my previous post about Pamela Bone’s absurd attack on “Western feminists” for alleged blindness to the concerns and rights of women in the developing world (well, actually, she only mentioned women in Islamic countries, [...]
Barry Humphries, voice of his generation
Much of Barry Humphries & Friends – Back With A Vengeance! has the feel of a greatest-hits concert. Dame Edna can still effortlessly embarrass audience members, and Humphries’ grasp of his old home town is remarkable for a man who [...]
Electronic voting
There are relatively few topics of interest to LP where I can actually claim relevant professional expertise but electronic voting is one of them. It’s a topic that keeps popping up for some reason. And this time around, it’s the [...]
Discussion Post
I can’t get my head around this. Essentially, Ashley X is a three-month old child mentally, despite her physical age of nine years, thanks to brain damage of some sort. Her parents and the medical team at Seattle Children’s Hospital [...]
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