Freenode Socialism

Basics

Disability Models

• If I Can’t Dance, Is It Still My Revolution?: Models of Disability:
  • Eugenic Model
  • Medical Model
  • Charity Model
  • Rights Model
  • Social Model
  • Radical Model

Disableism

Abortion

• Tiger Beatdown: Lives worth living: Disability, abortion, and slipshod ethics

Violence

• Mental Health Reporting: Facts About Mental Illness and Violence
• SAMHSA: Violence and Mental Illness: The Facts

Privilege

• b-tch on Wheels: The Invisible Backpack of Able-Bodied Privilege Checklist

Language

• Forward: Ableist Word Profile (Covers words/terms/concepts like: Crazy, Moron, Special, Wheelchair Bound, Retarded, Intelligence, etc.)
• If I can’t Dance, Is It Still My Revolution?: Disableism or ableism?

Intersectionality

Class

• anti-imperialism.com: Capitalism and the Material Realities of People with Disabilities Today

Trans

• kaberett: Transformative works

Queer

• PrettyQueer: On Ableism in Within Queer Spaces, or, Queering the “Normal”

Gender

• sickchicks: because women with disabilities are…
• Tiger Beatdown: Rape and selective outrage in the feminist community (on rape and disability)

Disabilities

Chronic Illness

• But You Don’t Look Sick: The Spoon Theory
• sophy: Why We Chronically Ill People Need The Spoon Theory To Be Just About Us

Mental Health

• Newsweek: The Suicide Epidemic (“Self-harm now takes more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined. Why are we killing ourselves, and how can we stop it?”)
• metanoia: Suicide: Read This First

Autism

• autostraddle.com: Social Skills or Stereotypes? What My Autism Classes Didn’t Teach Me
• ASAN: Don’t Support Autism Speaks