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Disability Hate Crime Consultation
The Crown Prosecution Service has launched a document for public consultation on prosecuting cases of disability hate crime This draft policy statement on prosecuting cases of disability hate crime...
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The "Ashley Treatment"
I suspect that, like a lot of other bloggers, I haven’t said anything on this yet because I’m simply flabbergasted and just don’t know where to begin. If you don’t already know, the “Ashley treatment”...
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Must Read
Book Girl at Falling off my Pedestal has an amazing series of posts on disability. The Invisible body. The Forbidden Body. The Marginalised Body. The Tragic body. Essential reading for feminists...
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Institutional Abuse
From the BBC, An independent inquiry is to be launched after a charity highlighted six deaths of people with learning disabilities in NHS care. Mencap’s report says there is widespread ignorance in the...
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Blog against disablism
Don’t forget, Tuesday 1st May is the day to blog against disablism hosted by Goldfish.
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Reading Material
The 22nd Carnival Against Sexual Violence is up at Abyss2Hope. Here are the collected posts for the Day to Blog Against Disablism. Goldfish did an amazing job.
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Good Reading
The Erase Racism Carnival is up at Racewire and Zenobia has a post in it. And the 19th Disability Carnival is up at Arthritic Young Thing with a very interesting sex and disability theme.
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Disturbing Precedents
You may remember the case of Ashley at the beginning of the year, the young American girl given radical treatment and surgery to stunt her growth and prevent sexual development. This case generated an...
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Sexuality & Disability Workshop
“WANTING MORE” A Workshop and Film Screening Exploring SEXUALITY & DISABILITY 6-9pm Friday Feb 15, 2008 London Action Resource Centre 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London E1 1ES For directions...
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