July 2010
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By s.e. smith on 31 July, 2010
The city of Chicago has been holding a disability pride parade for seven years, and San Jose recently followed suit; they held a parade celebrating the Americans with Disabilities Act last weekend. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any photos from that parade online, but I did find other photos of disability pride events, so I thought [...]
Posted in disability activism, events | Tagged disability pride, parades
By Guest on 30 July, 2010
Jesse the K hopes you can take a disabled feminist to tea this month. I’d hoped to have a delicious thinky post about the difference 20 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act has made for the world, the nation, the state, and me. Meditating on those topics proved so depressing I didn’t even leave [...]
Posted in accessibility, activism, guest post, identity, introspective, life changes | Tagged ableism, advocacy, assistive technology, human rights, impairment, legalities, memoir, wheelchair
By s.e. smith on 30 July, 2010
As I discussed yesterday, CNN apparently doesn’t think captioning online content is important. When that content is coverage of the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, that’s pretty offensive. Since CNN hasn’t responded to repeated requests for captioning, I decided to help them out with full transcripts of their content. I know they’re [...]
Posted in accessibility, events, policy | Tagged captions, Internet captioning, transcripts
By Ouyang Dan on 30 July, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
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By Chally on 30 July, 2010
[Cross-posted at Zero at the Bone.] This post is about the book version of Wicked, not the musical (they’re quite dissimilar). There’s one minor spoiler for the musical, and I’ve tried to minimise the spoilers about the book, though this is a book review so watch out! Wicked is concerned with the story of the [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, representations | Tagged book review, reviews, what the pancake
By s.e. smith on 29 July, 2010
For the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act on Monday, there was a big ceremony at the White House, where President Obama gave a speech. A number of people with disabilities attended, including Marlee Matlin, upon whom I have a huge crush. Matlin is an awesome actress, and she’s also a tireless crusader [...]
Posted in accessibility, media and pop culture | Tagged captions
By s.e. smith on 29 July, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessible media, ADA, autism, autistic students, blind, bodies, collaborative notetaking, cripface, Deaf, disabled actors, disabled students, disabled youth, education, filmmaking, hearing loss, representations
By s.e. smith on 29 July, 2010
There’s nothing I enjoy more than a good Supercrip narrative, which is why I settled down with a bowl of Chex Mix to enjoy this delicious piece, ‘Provo woman finds blessing in hardship,’ originally published at Mormon Times. This delightful local profile of a woman with disabilities who doesn’t let her disability stop her! has [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, representations | Tagged journalism, supercrip
By Anna on 28 July, 2010
It is too often argued by representatives from governments and the obligated sectors that they “would like to do the things we wand and need, but these changes will simply cost too much.” We have countered that the real barriers are not cost, but a lack of political will and a question of priorities.
Posted in activism, autonomy, disability activism, identity, policy, politics, resistance
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Question Time: Creativity
By Annaham on 29 July, 2010
Question Time is a series in which we open the floor up to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable. Do you do any creative things (artwork, web design, creative writing, photography, playing a musical instrument or instruments, crafts, knitting) for fun? If so, what are they, and what do you [...]
Posted in art, creative work, Question Time | Tagged art, comments, creative work, go commenters go!, question