Journalist – Historian – Speaker
I spend a certain amount of my time critiquing reporting on disability: Inspiration porn, mercy killing discourse, how disability links to police use of force, and of course so much more. My basic premise is that journalism matters, language matters, and often the media fails to handle admittedly tricky topics very well. This is especially …
When someone brings up thoughts of suicide to you, you have already done something right. This is a repost with permission. Amy McNally is a musician in Madison and a friend. Please share this. There is someone in your social circle who needs to read this. Originally posted by sweetmusic_27 at International Survivors of Suicide …
The physician assisted suicide debate is taking place right now, thanks to Brittany Maynard’s decision to go public with her death plans, on multiple levels. 1. The abstract ethics of the practice (in abstract, I’m for it). 2. The ways in which it’s applied (in practice, the innate ableism of our society encourages certain kinds of …
Content Note: Suicide Recently, Brittany Maynard, a young woman with terminal brain cancer, chose to end her own life. She deliberately made her death very public in hopes, I believe, of sparking debate and conversation. I am still deeply busy in book proofs so cannot write much, but I tweeted this: It’s reasonable to be …