Sara Luterman

I would just like to say that your commitment to the bit is (1) impressive and (2) has aged exceptionally well.

Was Puck Buddies the first gay hockey blog or did it have precursors? I am trying to figure that out.

I talked to a former Puck Buddies blogger today!

I am looking for experts on the history of hockey fandom, particularly gay and bi men. Does anyone have any recs? It is a very narrow topic and Google Scholar isn’t turning much up.

I sent a correction with a link to the archive of IACC rosters since the committee was established. Technically it’s a quote, but if that’s your kicker it’s misleading at best.

Scott Robertson was the backup for Jennifer Sheehy in the most recent previous iteration.

I have absolutely not missed the parallels in coverage. Particularly ideological parent activists are objective. Self-advocates are too activist to be taken seriously.

Some people hate neurodiversity so much that their brains leak out their ears. Positioning those people as mainstream is inaccurate and unfair to the vast majority of parents — Even the ones who don’t feel represented by the neurodiversity movement.

Some people hate neurodiversity so much that their brains leak out their ears. Positioning those people as mainstream is inaccurate and unfair to the vast majority of parents — Even the ones who don’t feel represented by the neurodiversity movement.

I do not think “we hate neurodiversity so much we’d rather be represented by guys who sell fake cures that have killed children” is a widely held or representative parent sentiment, actually!

The backup member for Department of Labor at one point was autistic. That’s it. That is the actual “leadership” of “high-functioning” people.

Also the committee has literally never been “lead” by “high functioning” people. There are a certain number of seats that are reserved for parents and a certain number reserved for self-advocates, but ultimately the panel is run by the government, and none of the government members are autistic.

But “we like these quacks more, they represent us more” is just a bananas sentiment to hold up as widely held or legitimate.

I get that some parents do not feel like their experiences or needs are represented by autistic people who live more independently, speak, etc. It is a complaint that makes sense, even if I do not always agree with it.

Oh wow, that is embarrassingly bad coverage.

How is “the chelation vaccine hyperbaric oxygen gluten people represent us more than the Autistic Self Advocacy Network” treated like a reasonable sentiment rather than ideological brain worms?

Text reads: For years, the committee was "led by people on the more high-functioning side of the spectrum," said Jacqueline Kancir, executive director of the National Council on Severe Autism and the parent of a profoundly autistic 22-year-old daughter. "There are a lot of parents out there that are jumping for joy, feeling like they've finally been heard," Ms. Kancir said. "However, it also could be retribution. Time really will tell." Georgia Gee, Apoorva Mandavilli and Christina Jewett contributed reporting. Azeen Ghorayshi is a Times science reporter.

The kicker on the NYT coverage of the new IACC is embarrassingly bad.

“The chelation vaccine hyperbaric oxygen gluten people represent us more than ASAN or Autism Society” is just brain worms. How is that the last word on a panel filled with kooks and quacks?

OK, but at least some of them do.

That was kind of a big deal in the late 80’s/early 90’s.

To be entirely fair, the big win for the LGBTQ community (and for Chai Feldblum) was for HIV/AIDS to not get excluded. But that is a different story.

Key autism committee is being reshaped to support Kennedy's vaccine agenda, researchers and advocates fear Researchers and advocates fear a key autism committee is being reshaped to support Kennedy's vaccine agenda.

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"Profound autism" label is profoundly useless Clustering autistic people under an arbitrary, demeaning label erases their individual humanity and needs.

Hey smartwatch users, please take heed of this warning about your data: “...the current administration's spread of misinformation around autism erasure will harm people who are autistic instead of helping them.” @ejwillingham.bsky.social in the latest TPGA newsletter:

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nintendo is going to drone strike the data center responsible for this

I think there are almost definitely some historical documents or journal articles about it. Not sure about reporting.

OH.

So Chai Feldblum was behind that too -- Her specific job at the ACLU at the time was HIV/AIDS advocacy. The reason that's not in the article is because it's a whole separate story.

It is included under the ADA — The story of it not being exempted a separate one, but HIV/AIDS advocates won that fight.

You might like @19thnews.org as a whole! @oriion.bsky.social and @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social are our dedicated LGBTQ beat reporters, but those things interact with a lot of other beats — Like disability.

Covering this stuff well is part of our mandate.

I love this and I love this for her.

Part of the issue is there is no similar kind of trans specific discrimination and civil rights law at the federal level. So protections sort of get cobbled together from a bunch of places.

The ADA can do a lot, so for some of the folks I talked to, the legal framing is about utility and securing those rights and protections, even if it isn’t how they conceptualize being trans or gender dysphoria on a personal level.

The “why is gender dysphoria a disability and what is the utility of the legal argument” question is very complicated and could probably be its own whole article.