This article was originaly published at Blogcritics on April 23, 2007.
April is Autism Awareness Month and I have chosen to make folks aware of the complexities and conundrums surrounding its politics, which are replete with divisions, debates, and diatribes fueled by self-advocates, special interests, activists, militants, and conspiracy theorists. The two main camps — though [...]

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The slaves did not free themselves. 100% of the people who voted in favor of women’s suffrage were possessed of a Y chromosome. Most of the people who are in favor of gay rights are straight. One needn’t actually be a member of any particular minority in order to advocate for that minority because [...]

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