Category: Community News

  • Disabled Writers In One Place!

    Listen to this post: Here’s a new website for disabled writers created by s.e. smith in partnership with Vilissa Thompson and Alice Wong. It’s called, wonderfully, DisabledWriters.com: From the website: “Disabled Writers is a resource to help editors connect with disabled writers and journalists, and journalists connect with disabled sources. Our goal is specifically to…

  • Introducing Reclamation Press

    Listen to this post: We have another disabled-led book publishing company!  Big cheers to Ibby Grace and Corbett OToole for launching Reclamation Press. My friends, colleagues, and I spend an inordinate amount of time responding and reacting to non-disabled-created stories and media. It’s exasperating work. You didn’t represent us well! — Why are you so…

  • Ann Millett-Gallant’s art and writing

    Listen to this post: Ann Millett-Gallant is no stranger to this blog. I’ve shared her work several times, especially her memoir Re-Membering, which explores her experiences with TBI and art. I want to make sure you also soak in her visual art. She paints a lot of cats and flowers, so it’s not the least…

  • Krip-Hop Nation’s 10th Anniversary & Legacy of Joe Capers

    Listen to this post: Here’s some Oakland and Bay Area news! Come celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Krip-Hop Nation and the Legacy of Oakland’s Joe Capers aka Blind Joe with a FREE Saturday afternoon show and celebration featuring local disabled artists and musicians and more!  The celebration will also include a report back from “A…

  • What’s a little loneliness?

    Listen to this post: I don’t really talk about rehab on this blog, but this popped into my mind today. There was a time when I couldn’t get places very well unless you gave me a car ride there. Between getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the wrong stop, tripping over leaves and…