Moon calf (newspaper)

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Moon calf

description Journal for
Organized Ailments
Area of ​​Expertise Disability Movement
language German
First edition May 5, 2007
Frequency of publication several times a year
Sold edition 1,000 copies
Widespread edition 10,000 copies
Range 0.05 million readers
Editors-in-chief Matthias Vernaldi
Stefan Gerbing
Rebecca Maskos
Marie Gronwald
Web link mondkalb-zeitung.de
ZDB 2634012-4

Mondkalb - Zeitschrift für das Organized Verliebe is an alternative magazine about disability and exclusion , which is aimed primarily at a non-disabled readership. The magazine has been published several times a year in Berlin since 2007 and is available free of charge to the public (in pubs, cafés, libraries, adult education centers ...).

history

In 2006 the Naturfreundejugend Berlin held a seminar on disability: Are you still completely normal? Disability. Be disabled. Be disabled . The idea arose to take up and deepen this topic in a separate newspaper.

The name Mondkalb - magazine for organized afflictions goes back to an idea of ​​the co-founder Karsten Krampitz . The moon calf was once referred to as the "freak birth" of domestic cattle , because the cause of the malformation was seen in the influence of the moon . Hence the name seemed appropriate for the newspaper. The first issue appeared on May 5, 2007, on the EU Day of Protest on Equality for Disabled People .

content

Prejudices and a predominantly medical view of disability ( medical model of disability ) contribute to negative attitudes towards people with disabilities. They are seen clichéd as sick, faulty and abnormal people, as objects for professional intervention, as a burden for themselves and their families, depending on the mercy (undeserved leniency) of other people.
Dr. Stefan Schneider, social scientist: "The fact that disability is not a purely birth-related fate, but is often socially produced and cemented, reveals the subtitle. Journal for Organized Disabilities . The association with Al Capone , the Mafia , Yakuza and other types of subversive action that im Generally stigmatized with the term crime , it should suggest: Here are perpetrators at work, not victims. "

Infrastructural , institutional and attitude barriers, disability as a social construct ( social model of disability ) in the sense of disability studies as well as other topics related to the body, body politics and standardization are mostly viewed in the articles with humor and / or sarcasm .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mondkalb on the website of Naturfreundejugend Berlin, accessed on January 8, 2012
  2. ^ "Mondkalb" article in the Berliner Zeitung on May 5, 2007, accessed on January 8, 2012
  3. ↑ Article by Dr. Stefan Schneider, accessed on January 8, 2012