Links for 19 May 2010

[sasha_feather]

Now with quotes because it's what the other cool linkspammers do!

FWD/Forward: Guest post from RMJ: Ableist Word Profile: Crazy

Crazy [is] a destructive word, used to hurt people with mental disabilities. It’s used to discredit, to marginalize, to make sure that we feel shame for our disability and discourage self-care, to make sure that those of us brave enough to publicly identify as having mental disabilities are continually discredited.

kaz: Ableist words and all that

This is what I have discovered by trying to rid my vocabulary of those words: one of the main things I use them for is to hurt myself. Whenever I think I've done something wrong or remember something I think I did wrong, I turn them inwards.

telesilla: 3w4dw -- Day ???

I don't need to explain to anyone why I'm on government assistance, because you know what? It's none of anyone's damn business.