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Living with Quiggles: A Tribute

Cheryle Gartley
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Cheryle Gartley is the co-founder of Label Me Not, a new initiative...

Cheryle Gartley

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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Stigma:1)  The recognition of difference based on some distinguishing characteristic or mark2)  A consequent devaluation of the person Quiggles: A made-up term (by famous sociologist, Erving Goffman) to identify all of the variations and differences of the human body which occur either fro...
  1. Wheelchair enabled...?
    johnroba1
    Saturday, August 02, 2008 at 02:27 PM

    ...or, how about wheelchair-assisted?

     

    Your current essay is so right on! I've always been annoyed by the use of phrases like "confined to a wheelchair" by people who have been seemingly conditioned to not give such phrasing much thought at all.

     

    You hit another one out of the park with this  month's post, although the previous one actually had more of a basketball theme! (Sorry, couldn't resist the chance at a cheesey pun).

     

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  2. Living with Quiggles
    Shanon
    Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 02:03 AM

    The sun breaks through the long monticello window into Imaginarie's shiny bedroom. The young Faerie Meerca yawns and climbs out of bed unto her warm, marble floor. Imaginarie lives with her uncle, Ullsus, a strong and grumpy Quiggle who struts around his mansion wearing metals and carrying dark secrets about the old wars. A long time ago, when Imaginarie was barely three, her parents were mysteriously taken from their very own home! Less than two days went by before she was shipped off to her cruel uncle overseas.
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    Shanon

     


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