Erasing History
[A version of this post appeared at my personal blog.] I’m reading The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History, by Robert Darnton. I’ve just finished the first chapter, which...
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International Women’s Day: Subverting the Narrative
I encourage you today to check out Gender Across Border’s Blog(swarm) for International Women’s Day. Throughout the day, the GAB editorial board (including Emily Heroy, Colleen Hodgetts, Jessica Mack,...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Ms Magazine Blog
Dear Ms Magazine Blog: My name is Anna. I’m what some people in North America would call a person with a disability, and some people in the UK would call a disabled person. My husband, many of my...
View ArticleWhy History?
The committee approved my thesis proposal (and I passed my French Proficiency Exam – necessary for Canadianists) and thus I’m now at the stage of my MA where I’m researching, reading secondary sources,...
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Open Post: Helen Keller Mythbusting Blogswarm Day!
Image: A grey banner divided in three parts. A photo of a young Helen Keller is in the center. On the right, it reads “Political Activist. Radical Thinker. Suffragist. Pacifist. Journalist. Socialist....
View ArticleA conversation
Recently, I was on the commuter train home. I happened to be reading Susan Schweik’s book Ugly Laws: Disability in Public for a research paper. Two middle-aged women sat down opposite me, and one...
View ArticleNational Association of the Deaf Videos
When writing in my own space, I tend to make a lot of jokes about how much I enjoy doing “history in the future!”, by which I mean a lot of primary sources are on-line. Last year, for example, I...
View ArticleNon-Fiction Book Review: Signs of Resistance by Susan Burch
If you were lying awake last night thinking “You know what I need? I need to read a well-written, engaging book that deals with Deaf cultural history in the US, and that includes discussion of gender,...
View Article“We’re not his kids, we’re adults, and we’re our own people”: The Trouble...
Today is Labour Day in Canada and the US, which for many people means the end of the Labour Day Weekend Jerry Lewis Telethon. Wikipedia conveniently describes the Jerry Lewis Telethon so I don’t have...
View ArticleDeath: Paul Steven Miller
I’m going to copy the email I just received from Disability Rights International: It is with great sadness, that we at Disability Rights International (DRI) mourn the death of Paul Steven Miller, a...
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