In Bed With Frida Kahlo

A whole new definition of Chutzpah

emmarosenthal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:12:00 +0000

Youth for Human Rights and the Politics of Exclusion. http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/watchads/index.html Chutzpah is a Yiddish word that roughly translates to “nerve” as in “She’s got a lot of nerve.” The classic definition is that of someone who has killed both his parents and then pleads to the judge for mercy because he is an orphan. The first ad from [...]

BBC NEWS | Health | Feeling grumpy is good for you

emmarosenthal — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:28:56 +0000

When I “think positive” I get in a lot more trouble, than when I am prepared for the obstacles that may come before me. As a person with a dis-ability (pwd) many obstacles are REAL obstacles. There are also social obstacles. The most humiliating experiences with dis-ability came when I was in the most positive [...]

Announcing the Upcoming Book Release: Shifting Sands

emmarosenthal — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:43:16 +0000

Jewish-American Women Speak Out Against the Occupation Whole World Press Spring 2010 Edited by Osie Gabriel Adelfang with an introduction by Cindy Sheehan and a forward by Amira Hass Including contributions from: Anna Baltzar Maia Ettinger Susan Greene Linda Dittmar Osie Gabriel Adelfang Hannah Mermelstein Tomi Laine Clark Starhawk Alice Rothchild Jen Marlowe Hedy Epstein Kim Goldberg Sandra Butler Emma Rosenthal On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shifting-Sands-Jewish-American-Women-Speak-Out-Against-the-Occupation/117315474206?ref=ts On the web: http://www.osieonline.com/Home_Page.html “I applaud Osie Gabriel Adelfang and all those who contributed [...]

Letter to the L.A. Eco Village

emmarosenthal — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:51:01 +0000

I sent this letter to the Eco Village, on two occasions, and months later, have yet to receive even an acknowledgement of receipt. I sent it via their email address and posted it to a local listserve. I do doubt that they ignore ALL emails they get. After all, they provide the email address so [...]

Writing in the Present Moment

emmarosenthal — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:05:13 +0000

The last few years have been overwhelming: the purges, death threats, isolation, humiliation, the overall initiation into the marginalization of dis-ability, the shutting down of the server my blogs were on, the reestablishment, post by post, image by image of the entire chronicles, the invasion of our home by 14 armed members of the Los [...]

Guide to Accessible Event Planning

emmarosenthal — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:12:17 +0000

THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACCESS LIES WITH THE EVENT PLANNERS. IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL ATTENDING THE EVENT. The issue of disability rights is often either ignored within the larger human rights dialogue or treated with outright hostility. Too often events are either held in inaccessible locations, or the way space is used, in [...]

UPDATED BLOG ENTRIES: Anatomy of a Blacklist

emmarosenthal — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:05:59 +0000

This blog was forced to move when the previous hosting site shut down. The process has been tedious. Each post and each image has been reinstalled one by one. A direct import was not available. For more information on this process: http://inbedwithfridakahlo.wordpress.com/site-under-construction-pardon-the-sawdust/ The following pages have recently been revised or reinstalled, providing new information to the threads; UTLA [...]

Platitudinal Pathos

emmarosenthal — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:46:22 +0000

you’re such a pretty lady too bad you’re such a bitch, he said good girls can go to hell being polite to bad boys learning to sit quietly taking no space I choose brazen words today more suitable for caustic occasions than tea cups and lace I don’t like ladies sewing circles eating finger sandwiches and smoking platitudes while l sit pulling knitting needles from between my shoulder [...]

Anatomy of a Blacklist- a thread on two blogs

emmarosenthal — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:14:21 +0000

For the last three years I have been documenting a series of events within United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), around disability rights, Palestinian rights, union democracy and blacklisting, which started as a strange power play within the Human Rights Committee apparently around disability rights, but in my estimation, may have merely been the utilization of [...]

Enough is Enough: Who’s Who, and Why it Matters

emmarosenthal — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:55:51 +0000

In covering blacklisting within the union, United Teachers Los Angeles, and specifically within the Human Rights Committee, which has been documented within this blog and then later in the blog of Café Intifada, I initially chose to use pseudonyms in quoting or discussing the actions of those with whom I did not agree. (In the [...]