| It's Telethon time... |
[Sep. 3rd, 2007|01:14 pm] |
Kay at The Gimp Parade says:
Sigh. It's that time of year again. Miss Crip Chick and Kara Sheridan are leading the online protest against this tiresome Weekend of Celebrating Pity through the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon by asking bloggers to write about charity, pity, the medical model of disability, the tyranny of the belief that we all need a cure, and the asshattery of Jerry Lewis. That's for tomorrow, Monday, the United States' Labor Day.
Miss Crip Chick explains:
Jerry Lewis is the host of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Annual Telethon, a telethon that occurs every Labor Day to raise funds for cures by using disabled people as posterchildren. Disabled people protest the telethon because of its outdated, negative portrayal of disabilities. These images that the telethon promotes sticks in people’s minds and continually serve as a barrier for disabled people. Disability is not the problem, but rather the attitudes and barriers that society places on us.
What can we do? Protest. Write a Letter to the Editor. Tell people about the charity, medical, and social model of disability. Blog. Kara and I, along with the Disability Activist Collective (website coming soon) are organizing a campaign against the telethon and the charity model of disability. We need bloggers (not only disability bloggers but all! feminist, queer, woc, environmentalist, activists, great time to build alliances) who will agree to write about this! The campaign will work much like a blog carnival and will be heavily publicized in listservs and other sources of media.
And so is born: Welcome to the first annual Anti-Telethon Blogswarm (online gathering of bloggers to bring attention to an important issue). By stopping by, you’ve joined our protest against pity. We are excited to share with you the thoughts, feelings, and words of power expressed in the links below. This unique way to voice opposition will allow our chants to be heard across the world and we invite you to join us in solidarity! If you didn?t have time to write, didn’t know what to say, or weren’t sure how you felt before today, there are still opportunities to act. Post a comment, forward our link, write a newspaper, tell your friends, or educate someone in the community about why your life isn’t defined by pity. Thank-you so much for joining us and LEAD ON!
I am someone who agrees with this sentiment 1000%. However, the opinions linked to and shared on that site are worth viewing by anyone who is against pity, regardless of how you feel about the telethon. Many thanks to everyone involved in putting it all together for all the world to see and discuss.
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| You can be a focus group! |
[May. 9th, 2006|09:29 pm] |
My dear friend David is a public relations account executive, and he has a new client. He says:
Hi everyone – check out the link below, it’s a new magazine I’m helping to launch this month.
We won the account back in February and this site is going live next Monday. If you could please share your thoughts with me, good, bad, indifferent, that would be great. A huge part of my agency’s work on this project will be to drive traffic to the site so just clicking on the link will be a huge help to me.
www.shocku.com/111
I figured my constructively opinionated friends could be of some help, so please feel free to comment, and I can pass the feedback along.
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