Things that crack me up, #22

I know this is a serious search engine query (Yahoo this time instead of Google), and it's such a general question that I have no advice...

Accessibility here, just somewhere else

Flickr credits: Lee Bennett , ekai , and Isgphoto , respectively. Visual descriptions of the three photos above: 1) A simple sign that reads...

More writing on Ashley X

As people incorporate the Ashley Treatment into their thinking about disability or just spend a little time with the ethics of it all, more ...

Big badass slumgullion #33

Blog posts and news reports all mixed together... slumgullion-like: The Gray Panthers of San Fransisco blogs about managed care and assiste...

Texas guidelines for interpreters for the deaf

This 59-step guide on how to provide interpretaton for deaf defendants in the Texas court system came across on a listserv I observe. The fu...

Molski and the Ninth Circuit

I've written about Jarek Molski before. He's the paraplegic Californian who has sued hundreds of businesses for Title III ADA viola...

Things that crack me up, #21

It's just so mysterious. Restroom signage somewhere in Orleans, France. From Flickr by bananeman Visual description: It's a simple d...

Poetry Monday: Their Sudden Tongues

Tulips by Sylvia Plath The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here. Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in I am learning...

Slumgullion #32

Some bloggy goodness: Funky Mango writes about the "One Million for Disability" campaign across the European Union. There's a...

Red Robin and Armadillos at the Gimp Compound

It's warm today, and while the morning began with miserable fog that didn't bother me at all because I slept through its evil opaque...

Montes de Oca

I had several fantastic social studies and history teachers when I was in high school in suburban Chicago, and one of them arranged a fieldt...

Can a deaf black lesbian charged with murder get a fair trial?

Does your answer change if you learn the trial is in South Dakota? How about if she's up for the death penalty? From the March 6 article...

More on Emilio

I posted about baby Emilio Gonzales on Wednesday, but here's a petition to sign for him . It does appear that public attention and invol...

Things that crack me up, #20

It's not that there's accessible diving advertised on a giant sign at the beach in Valenciana that amuses me. It's that the hug...

Just don't bitch about it

From the Joplin Globe of Missouri : Official lashes out after report By Roger McKinney COLUMBUS, Kan. — Information from an advocate for pe...

Disability Carnival #11

Trying out a new icon for the latest Disability Blog Carnival at All About aBILITIES . This is the sculpture of Alison Lapper that resides i...

The betrayal of ability

So here's some YouTube video of a Brazilian Candid-Camera-type show where pranks are pulled on unsuspecting passersby. This five-and-a-...

Little Emilio and the Texas Futile Care Law

The AP story here : A dying toddler facing removal of his life support system received a reprieve Tuesday when hospital officials agreed to ...

Miss Ability lays down on the job

Back in January, I wrote about the Dutch show Miss Ability : Miss Ability has been called the surprise hit of Dutch television in 2006, bu...

Getting noticed

The National Disability Arts Forum (NDAF) of Great Britain has an online poster exhibition of posters for disability events that is very in...

About "The Secret"

The Secret by Australian Rhonda Byrne is the latest self-help book (and DVD!) to become a bestselling American phenomenon. From Newsweek : ...

Euthanasia in Oregon

David McDonald at DAWG Oregon (Disability Activists Work Group Oregon) had a friend named Tracey. He knew her for seven years and worked di...

Will her leg fall off?

Story here. Excerpt: An online gambling site is inviting macabre bets on whether Heather Mills' prosthetic leg will fall off during her ...

Things that crack me up, #19

Ever get the feeling you're not welcome? Visual description: Three photos from CollegeHumor.com all regarding parking spaces and disable...