Category: Community News

  • Contribute to NOS Magazine neurodiverity collection online

    Listen to this post: I love playing with language, especially things like people in disability community reclaiming “crip” or “krip” to describe themselves with pride. It’s definitely inspeak to call yourself a crip to other crips, which is part of the appeal. Of course, not everyone with experiences around disability likes or uses crip, and…

  • Krip-Hop Nation’s 10th Anniversary CD

    Listen to this post: It’s time to wish Happy Birthday to Krip-Hop Nation! Read up on some great news from their press release below, and follow the link at the bottom for the new CD. And follow all the other links all over the place for the best music and lyrics. Krip-Hop Nation has grown…

  • Educational Launch Screening of Who Am I To Stop It

    Listen to this post: This is an exciting time for the documentary Who Am I To Stop It. Since launching with educational distribution coop New Day Films, we’ve gotten sales from California to Delaware to the UK and are looking forward to the chance to screen, well, everywhere. “Who Am I To Stop It” is…

  • Support Sara Willig for Graduate School and Assistive Tech

    Listen to this post: If I had a dime for every time someone–liberal, progressive, conservative, or undecided–made comments about people with disabilities needing to be more productive, contribute more, and not be benefits moochers! I would divvy up a lotta dimes to a lot of people who could maybe claw their way out of the poverty most…

  • Especially good reasons to not say “special needs”

    Listen to this post: I’m gonna come right out and say it:  I don’t like euphemisms. I love the words “can’t,” “hate,” and “no.” I’m a fan of throwing my hands over my ears and yelping, “I’m done! It’s loud!” and running out of the room as opposed to mulling about in painful noise and…