By Chally on 21 December, 2010
Do you know, readers, it struck me that I have never posted about South Africa’s Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden? As the Garden is both stunning and disability friendly, I do not know how this is possible! I must correct it at once. Kirstenbosch is set on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town and, [...]
Posted in accessibility, happy posts | Tagged blind, South Africa, wheelchair users
By s.e. smith on 12 December, 2010
Here is something you may not know about me: I enjoy hang gliding and paragliding. There are few things in this world I love quite as much as jumping off a mountain. It’s an experience that’s kind of hard to explain to people who haven’t done it, most of whom look at me highly askance [...]
Posted in Videos | Tagged disabled sports, para-paragliding, paragliding, wheelchair users
By Chally on 7 December, 2010
This piece contains lots of spoilers. I wanted to love this book, I really did. I have enjoyed the couple of Julie Ellis novels I’ve read, but this one just tipped the charming/not happening scale a bit far. It has a really strong heroine in Vicky, who escapes the Russian pogroms to build a new [...]
Posted in books, feminism, gender, media and pop culture, race, relationships, representations, sexuality | Tagged book review, disability in fiction, disabled women, fiction, problematic attitudes, reviews, sex, wheelchair users, women
By s.e. smith on 21 October, 2010
I’ve been rather behind on my television viewing lately, and I only recently caught up on ‘Selfish,’ the second episode of the new season of House (please be advised that this post contains significant spoilers for said episode). After watching it, I needed several weeks to ponder it before I could write about it, because [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, television | Tagged disability on television, disabled characters, House, medical ethics, wheelchair users
By Anna on 13 October, 2010
A few signal-boosting calls to action that people, especially those in the US, may want to participate in. Penny Reeder at Abled Body: Share your Smart Phone Strife with the FCC And one other thing, I don’t want to pay any more for my smartphone than anybody who has a Blackberry, Droid, or iPhone. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged assisted living, crazy, mental health, mental illness, pets, stigma, United Kingdom, virgina ironside, wheelchair, wheelchair users
By Chally on 11 March, 2010
Also see: Davros, Daleks, and Disability and Bloody Torchwood. Contains minor spoilers for Doctor Who from “Voyage of the Damned” through to “The Next Doctor”. I’ve been compiling a list of all the characters who are wheelchair users in New Who. For everyone who has no earthly idea what I’m talking about, I’m referring to [...]
Posted in representations, television | Tagged disabled characters, doctor who, wheelchair users
By Anna on 6 November, 2009
Missing in Causation Talk: Actual Austistics: Today I listened in a bit to the IACC conference call on “risks and prevention.” I ended up not listening to the entire thing, partly because I’m quite busy, and partly because the conference call format just does not work very well for me in terms of processing information [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse, accessibility, autism, crime, exclusion, invisible disabilities, social inclusion, wheelchair users
By Anna on 5 November, 2009
Recommended Reading for November 5, 2009
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged education, feminism, health care, money, photos, support services, wheelchair users
By Anna on 12 October, 2009
The family dynamics playing out here all feel very realistic to me. It’s obvious that they brought in someone to discuss seriously how one lives and recovers from such an accident, and talked a lot with the creators and writers about how disability plays out within a family. The Girardis are not victims of a horrible tragedy, and the focus of the show isn’t on how the able-bodied are recovering from the sudden burden of their eldest child. Instead, it’s a show that includes how families are affected when disability comes into their lives unexpectedly, and the way everyone involved copes, or doesn’t cope. Everyone is an individual, and no one is a prop or a very special message.
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged chronic pain conditions, family, family dynamics, joan of arcadia, television, wheelchair users
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