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This Is Me from Invisible Disability Project
Listen to this post: One thing I love about the Invisible Disability Project is their belief in the idea that each person and each community ought to be able to define themselves no matter their age, gender, disability, class, ethnicity, or anything else about them. IDP is a grassroots movement of social projects. One of their many…
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Biketown, sigh, sigh, sigh
Listen to this post: This isn’t the first time I’ve written on this blog about adaptive bicycles, how glorious they are, and what they represent. They represent adaptability and innovation. They also represent a more holistic, fair symbol of inclusion. Not the kind of inclusion where you have to be or act as non-disabled as…
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Boo to “Me Before You”
Listen to this post: If you already don’t like the idea of the new film “Me Before You” or you want to know reasons some disabled activists don’t like it, this is the post for you. Today I’m blogging and aggregating. The best part? So many people have already written reviews, rounded up posts, and are quoting…
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Help develop ableist microagressions scale
Listen to this post: Shanna K. Kattari is doing some great research. She interviewed me and a bunch of other people recently so she could begin to design a survey around ableist microaggressions. There are some scales and questionnaires around racial and ethnic and other micoaggressions already, but there hasn’t been a formal one around ableism.…
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Toni Hickman’s “I Am Victorious” for Stroke Awareness Month
Listen to this post: May is Stroke Awareness Month, and I have some of my favorite kind of awareness-raising to share! It’s my favorite because it’s not an anatomy lesson, it’s not disconnected from society and stigma, and it’s not a doctor talking about their patients’ experiences. What it is, is the very fine Krip-Hop Nation artist…