Blog posts by Amy Clare: 2010
Blogging Against Disablism Day: on being a disabled blogger
by Amy Clare // 1 May 2010, 00:00
Though my guest blogging month is over, I'm doing this extra guest post purely for the occasion of Blogging Against Disablism Day. As my contribution to today, I’d like to highlight just how challenging it can be for disabled people...
Checked your human privilege lately?
by Amy Clare // 29 March 2010, 11:00
My name is Amy Clare, and I am a vegan feminist. (Or should that be veg*n fem*nist?) For my last post as one of this month’s guest bloggers, I'd like to talk about speciesism and human privilege. For those unfamiliar...
Freedom of religion is not freedom to discriminate
by Amy Clare // 24 March 2010, 11:52
A gay couple were turned away from a B&B in Berkshire by its Christian owner, who claimed it would be ‘against her convictions’ to allow them to stay, the Guardian reported on Sunday. The couple, Michael Black and John Morgan...
Disabled people failed by harsh benefit test
by Amy Clare // 23 March 2010, 12:23
Thousands of chronically ill and disabled people are being let down by the medical tests for the Government’s new disability benefit, Employment and Support Allowance, reports the BBC. Citizens Advice has criticised the tests as “crude” and pointed to the...
Greater Manchester Police failed DV victims, say IPCC
by Amy Clare // 11 March 2010, 17:17
(Trigger warning: descriptions of domestic violence.) This will come as no surprise at all to many readers: it seems more victims of domestic violence have been officially let down by the police. According to BBC News, Greater Manchester Police have...
South African women need more than World Cup condoms
by Amy Clare // 9 March 2010, 18:32
HIV/Aids is now the biggest worldwide cause of death and disease among reproductive-age women, according to the BBC’s report into a new initiative by UNAids, the UN’s HIV/Aids agency. The initiative aims to identify the gender issues responsible for women...
Hollywood glass ceiling is shattered, but women are still losing out in film and TV
by Amy Clare // 8 March 2010, 16:23
On the eve of International Women’s Day, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director, for her Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker. She is one of only five women to have even been nominated...
Sexism in the atheist community: not rational, not reasonable, not funny
by Amy Clare // 3 March 2010, 22:30
Those who are familiar with my comments on this site will know that I am highly critical of religion. This is mainly due to a lack of evidence for a god or gods. However, the misogyny contained within most holy...
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