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May 29, 2019

NYT Article: “Shame and Salvation in the American South”

A NYT opinion article recently jumped onto my social media: “Shame and Salvation in the American South.” The author, Margaret Renkl, writes: “I know that the transcendent natural beauty of this region matches the majesty of any other place on earth. I know how very many people here are fighting…

Politics

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Politics

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May 5, 2019

Cognitive dissonance and diatribes: Apologist responses to filicide

In 2013 or 2014, I wrote a petition to garner public support for a proper sentencing of K. Stapleton along with wanting to send it to the Judge in the case (the Judge part is not how that works, but I was fresh into my advocacy, all things considering). She…

Disability

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Disability

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May 3, 2019

The cycle of invisibility: part one

Not recognizing access features is similar to not realizing access issues A: My friend was recently at a spiritual, justice-oriented retreat. Being disabled, she noticed the features of the location as being very physically accessible. Though she doesn’t use mobility aids, she is well versed enough with cross-disability issues to…

Disability

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Disability

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Apr 25, 2019

Letters sent re: #StopTheShock #WeAreStillWaiting

Today (4/24/19), is the day of action about the GED shock device used on disabled ‘students’ at the Judge Rotenberg Center in MA. Learn more here. — CW torture, electric skin shock To the FDA CDRH-Center for Devices and Radiological Health Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20993 1 (800) 638–2041 DICE@fda.hhs.gov To whom it may concern at the FDA, My name is Kit Mead, and I am from Baltimore, MD. I wanted to ask…

Disability

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Disability

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Apr 8, 2019

autism acceptance month version… ??

I’m not going to lie when I say that I don’t know what to say, that I’ve recycled all my words for autism acceptance and neurodiversity until I have nearly nothing left to say and I know remixing scripts is very autistic, echolalia and pallilalia and all the little things…

Autism

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Autism

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Feb 26, 2019

bendy joints, fragile life, and how the denial of effective care can kill us

Disabled people often rely on an intricate but fragile network of supports, services, and medical care to survive. Sometimes the fabric of supports and lifesaving medical care bends like my joints, stretching far like the faulty collagen in my body. …

Disability

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Disability

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Feb 12, 2019

Comments to HHS on possibly altering HIPAA mental health privacy rules

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) put out a “Request for Information” on possibly changing HIPAA privacy rules for people with “serious mental illness” and substance use disorders. The docket can be found here. The comment period is now closed. The changes they…

Mental Health

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Mental Health

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Dec 15, 2018

On (not) writing (every day)

Funnily enough, Stephen King and I aren’t the same person. Though he too experiences chronic pain as the result of being struck by a car in 1999 , his advice to write every day doesn’t work for me. …

Writing

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Writing

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Oct 7, 2018

Reckoning with less than historical eugenics and present politics

Eugenics, Kavanaugh, and Trump administration politics I was with a friend in North Carolina as the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh unfolded, and stopped by the NC Eugenics Board historical marker completely by accident. …

Disability

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Disability

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Jun 19, 2018

Autistic pride is my rebellion (or, why I can’t celebrate Father’s Day)

Yesterday was Father’s Day, which I cannot celebrate. Today is Autistic Pride Day and June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month, which I embrace. It was also the Baltimore Pride Festival yesterday. I put on a Noncompliance is a Social Skill shirt and made an “Autistic Disabled LGBTQ+ Pride” sign, and trekked…

Autism

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Autism

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Kit Mead

Kit Mead

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I write about ableism and prejudice a lot. Main blog: https://kpagination.wordpress.com.

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