Who Am I To Stop It

Category: Community News

  • Gutting the ADA doesn’t mean accessibility should stop

    Listen to this post: Adding accessibility or using Universal Design doesn’t work if all we focus on is complying with laws. If you like the ideas around free markets and capitalism, you could focus on the potential increase in customer base if your websites, stores, or products are accessible. If you like the idea of…

  • Neurodivergent Solidarity…now with cats!

    Listen to this post: Look at this work of brilliance from M.M. Anyone who knows me will understand that a row of smiling cats is gonna draw me in right away. If something could somehow be better than cats to me, it would be this image of solidarity. Which yes, is represented by cats. It’s…

  • The Fries Test on disability representation in media

    Listen to this post: Yay! A new disability representation test! I’ve done several presentations about disability representation in the media at disability studies conferences and in college classes. And I’ve expressed a lot how I’m sad that the Gold Test for disability representation in films was the only media test that I knew about. I’m…

  • IQ is not a joke or a threat

    Listen to this post: Here’s what you need to know. Last night, I took a bus to Portland Community College (PCC). The campus is smack dab in the middle of a residential neighborhood. It’s the kind with old homes and no garages. So, the people who live around the campus are often using street parking.…

  • Who gets to move around?

    Listen to this post: So, I’m talking to this white guy the other day. He’s at work, not an easy job, but steady income. He’s got a visible impairment. And although that tells me nothing about his life or how he identifies with disability, I can see that he’s able to do his job. We’re…