Lazy-Day Linkage

Thanks to my anxiety and insomnia, I've spent today stuck between waking and sleeping. It took me forever to get to sleep last night, and I woke early and couldn't get back to sleep. Now I feel completely useless. I'm too tired to be very productive, but too alert to sleep. It's a read-and-watch-TV kind of day.

I have been killing time by surfing the Disability Blogosphere, and have some interesting links to pass on. Enjoy.

Check out Kara's Place To Breathe and Believe for the Labor Day Blog Against the Telethon. For those who don't know, Jerry Lewis has been raising money for Muscular Dystrophy for decades by using destructive stereotypes of disability. He exploits young children as poster children, making them objects of pity, in order to raise money for a cure. While I personally have no problem with raising money for Muscular Dystrophy awareness and aid, I think it's wrong to campaign solely for a cure, especially by manipulating people's guilt and pity in order to get to their wallets. Join Kara and her friends on September 3rd and blog against the Jerry Lewis Telethon, or check out her site on Labor Day.

Lene from the Seated View always strikes me as a fairly even-tempered person, but when she rants, she does it very well. In One of These Things is Not Like the Others, she bitches about her wheelchair malfunctioning, and how she's tired of being treated like a second-class citizen because of her disability.

She also links to this post from Big Noise. As I read Diagnosis: Murder, I was outraged to hear the story of a disabled man being murdered by a doctor who wanted to harvest his kidneys. Are you kidding me? It sounds like something out of a sci-fi horror novel but it is unfortunately all too true. As I said in my blog, if there's any kind of organized protest or letter-writing campaign, let me know, 'cause I'm in.

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