Saturday Slumgullion #9

• From It's my life... Don't you forget, a Deaf blogger argues that beating a deaf citizen is a hate crime if you are ignorant of his deafness, yet assault him because of behavior common to deaf people.


• Mission & Justice reports on the current health and disability problems in Vietnam due to Agent Orange use there by the United States in the 1970s.


• The blog of the AFL-CIO reports that seniors on Medicare Part D who have hit the doughnut hole are going broke.


• A woman with cerebral palsy who was fired from Veterans Affairs claims they failed to provide accommodations they needed, then sacked her when she desperately tried to find some other way to do her job.


• View Travel with a Disability photos -- or contribute your own -- at Flickr, courtesy of Rolling Rains.


• Dianrez writes thoughtfully about growing up deaf in a hearing culture. Great blog.


• In audio, Dr. Dave Martin of Auburn University's Department of Rehabilitation and Special Education discusses how language contributes to stereotyping of disabled folks.


• In South Africa, a new comic book developed by a gay and lesbian organization illustrates deaf rights and provides information on HIV/AIDS and sexuality. Via Deaf in the City.

• Carnival of feminists XXI.

• Patient consumer parade #6.

• Grand rounds.

• Change of shift, a nursing carnival.