By s.e. smith on 8 December, 2010
This post has been edited with updated information. Here’s a completely bizarre policy move for you: Planners of the 2012 London Olympics announced today that a request to allow disabled ticket holders to use the games lanes set aside for athletes and dignitaries will be turned down. 100 miles (161 kilometers, if you must) of [...]
Posted in accessibility, events, social attitudes | Tagged driving, exclusion, London, Olympics, placard panic, sports
By s.e. smith on 24 November, 2010
The Tennessee Disability MegaConference is Tennessee’s largest disability-specific conference for individuals with disabilities, families, and professionals. At the conference, people share the latest information and innovations on many topics including housing, employment, education, health care, recreation and leisure, mental health, and others. Continuing education credits are offered in many categories. People attending make new friends [...]
Posted in events, signal boost | Tagged conferences, Tennessee, United States
By s.e. smith on 22 November, 2010
Gregory Hlibok, for those who do not know (and there’s no particular reason you should!) is a Deaf attorney who was just appointed to head the disability rights office at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States. This is news for two important reasons. 1. The FCC is responsible for regulating communications in [...]
Posted in events | Tagged FCC, United States
By s.e. smith on 16 November, 2010
Disability Studies in Nederland and VU University Amsterdam have the pleasure of inviting you to the International Disability Studies Conference to be held around World Disability Day: Conference: ‘Diversity in Quality of Life’ Date: December 2-4, 2010 Location: VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands On the occasion of the first anniversary of Disability Studies in Nederland and the [...]
Posted in events, signal boost | Tagged Amsterdam, conferences, The Netherlands
By Anna on 15 November, 2010
Events from the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. US: San Francisco, California, November 15: The Disability Issues Caucus of the National Communication Association will have a memorial for Paul Longmore at 7 p.m. Monday, November 15. It will be in the Franciscan A room of the Hilton San Francisco, at 333 O’Farrell Street. All [...]
Posted in events, signal boost
By Chally on 3 November, 2010
People. People. I cannot even tell you how excited I am. In November-December in New South Wales, the awesome-est state in Australia1, we have a little something called the Don’t DIS My ABILITY campaign. There are loads of events run around the state leading up to the International Day of People with a Disability. My [...]
Posted in disability activism, events, happy posts | Tagged australia, don't dis my ability, made you look
By s.e. smith on 2 November, 2010
Here in the US, the long-awaited midterm elections have arrived at last. As I think readers know, I take voting pretty seriously and adore voting, even though there are some pretty stark problems with the political process in the United States. This open thread is for people to talk about their voting experiences (you don’t [...]
Posted in events | Tagged accessibility, ballots, elections, voting
By Anna on 5 October, 2010
While some of the jokes and routines are funnier than others (my sense of humour is a lot dryer than this sort of thing does), the whole point of them is to talk about being Actually Crazy, to humanize what Actually Crazy looks like, sounds like, and behaves like. And it is, remarkably, not like in the movies.
Posted in activism, events, mental health, representations, social attitudes | Tagged canada, college, comedy, humor, humour, SMH, stand up for mental health, suicide
By Anna on 21 September, 2010
I spent most of my weekend pretty much glued to Twitter following ADAPT’s latest action in Washington, DC and wondering where the media was, especially after a huge group of wheelchair users blockaded one of the White House gates and 16 people were arrested. I actually thought that the White House security arresting a group of people with disabilities would surely be the sort of thing that the media would pick up on.
Foolish me!
Posted in activism, autonomy, disability activism, events, i'm right here, invisibility, justice, make the world a better place, news, policy, politics, resistance, social attitudes
By Guest on 15 September, 2010
There are many elements to making your event wheelchair-accessible. While U.S. law requires minimal wheelchair access, never rely on a venue’s general assertion of “oh yes, we’re accessible.” Those little wheelchair stickers? Anyone can buy them and post them at will, even at the bottom of a flight of steps.
Posted in accessibility, events, how to be accessible, make the world a better place, normality
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