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Barbara Smith
This week's reading about Black feminist leader Barbara Smith had a lot of parallels to the environmental justice movement. Like Black...

Laura
Oct 21, 20221 min read
The Subgroups of Movements
This week, we read about an advocate for African American Women. Barbara Smith experienced discrimination in a few different ways. She...

Des
Oct 20, 20222 min read
History of Advocacy on The Internet
This week, we read some chapters from Kapp's Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement. In these readings, they discussed a lot...

Rachel
Oct 17, 20221 min read
Autistic Community & the Neurodiversity Movement
For this week's readings, we read chapters 5 and 7 of Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline. In...
ellie
Oct 14, 20222 min read
Online Community Spaces
This week‘s reading, chapters 5 and 7 of Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement took a look at the different kinds of...

Kyra
Oct 14, 20221 min read
Online Communal Spaces and their Potential for Activism
In the two chapters that we read for this week, we see how the authors create/contribute to online communities centered on autism and how...
Dylan Zumwalt
Oct 14, 20222 min read
Websites & Neurodiversity
This will probably be a short entry since we didn't have an example post for this week... For this week's reading, the two chapters'...
Sydnee
Oct 14, 20222 min read
Week 7 Blog Post
This week’s readings, chapters five and seven of Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline, focused...
Cole
Oct 14, 20222 min read
The Effects of Using The Internet: Then and Now
The internet wasn't like it is today. It wasn't as easily accessible then. It was also a little harder to spread information at the rate...

Des
Oct 14, 20222 min read
Week 8 - Addressing intersectionality
I confess that I first learned the term intersectionality shortly after the women's march when I saw groups that I had joined, in the...

mf64773
Oct 14, 20221 min read
Week 6 post
In the reading ““We Are Certain of Our Own Insanity”:Antipsychiatry and the Gay Liberation Movement, 1968-1980,” author Abram J. Lewis...
ColinTheShots
Oct 11, 20222 min read
Week 6 Blog Post
In the reading, Lewis talks about how the diagnosis "homosexuality" was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
Raine Vazquez
Oct 10, 20221 min read
Week 6 Blog Post
The piece for this week from Lewis focuses on the removal of homosexuality from the DSM and the role it played in the lgbtq movement. The...
alexis
Oct 10, 20221 min read
The DSM and its missteps
This week’s reading, “We Are Certain Of Our Own Insanity” by Lewis reflected on the differing protesting techniques and perspectives of...

Kyra
Oct 9, 20221 min read
Be sure of the change you are looking for...
The reading this week, "We are certain of Our Own Insanity" by Lewis, discussed some unintended consequences of the Gay rights movement...

mf64773
Oct 8, 20221 min read
Historical Perspective
So, as far as I can tell from my brief research, anti-consumerist sentiment has existed nearly as long as consumerism (and by extension...

Andrew P
Oct 8, 20221 min read


Reform and Radical Change vs The Powers That Be
This week, we discussed in depth the ways that many social movements have had to fight against a powerful group (usually the government.)...

Rachel
Oct 7, 20222 min read
Homosexuality and Autism: The Fight To End Pathologization
Lewis chronicles the history of the conflict involving LGBTQ rights activists and psychologists on the psychiatric state of homosexuality...
ellie
Oct 7, 20222 min read
More History... except with text!
This week we had to read a really long document that covered how the Gay Liberation activists achieved homosexuality's removal from the...
Sydnee
Oct 7, 20222 min read
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