Nike ad features Paralympian

It hurts me a little bit to post this ad for discussion. I participated in protests at my university when the sports department contracted w...

Katie Jones and Deus ex machina

The story of Katie Jones has been circulating slowly on disability listservs and blogs since the December 9 article in the Chicago Tribune ....

Friday Music: Sinéad O'Connor

This is what Sinéad O'Connor actually said this past September, according to a Minneapolis Star Tribune article : "I'd been su...

Thursday at the Gimp Compound

Today was another Parts Replacement Day and all seems to have gone especially well. When I made this appointment to swap my feeding tube for...

"Ransom notes" ad campaign ends

Ari Ne'eman, president of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) that led the protest against the NYU Child Study Center's "...

Things that crack me up #36

TGP reader Stu Russell shares this photo from Malaysia. He writes: "The disabled in Malaysia are not well catered for, but the NGOs rep...

Blackface/Yellowface/*face

In "Blackface/Yellowface/*face" Wheelchair Dancer muses about identity politics, performance arts and disability culture: Despite...

Friday Music: Boys on Wheels

Since I posted this at The Gimp Parade last June , Boys on Wheels has been a fairly major contributer to my site's daily visitor hit cou...

Disability Blog Carnival

The latest Disability Blog Carnival is up at Andrea's Buzzing About , where the theme is "A Few of Our Favorite Things." Check...

The "ransom notes" campaign

We have your son.We are destroying his ability for social interaction and driving him into a life of complete isolation. It's up to you ...

Things that crack me up, #35

WARNING! We're out there. This doesn't always amuse me, but the persistent need to identify disabled persons' nearby presence -...

Prison suicides and mental illness

Piggybacking on Amp's report of recent NYT statistics on prisons and prisoners in the U.S. is the news that prisoner suicides in Massa...

Friday Music: Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt is a music legend you may never have heard about. He was a singer and drummer of the '60s psych-jazz band Soft Machine tha...

Robert Latimer denied parole

Yesterday, a Canadian parole board in a prison near Victoria denied day parole to Robert Latimer . Latimer is the Saskatchewan farmer servin...

Disability in China

A Chinese woman by the name of Wang Fang declined a disability pension despite being born with feet that face backwards. This is news in Bri...

Liz Crow won a DaDa Award

I blogged about it back in early November . You voted for her. She won! The award money will go toward her latest production, "a film-b...

Best of 2007

I wasn't going to offer a Best of 2007 list of my posts this early because I'm an optimist and I like to think genius may strike me ...

Back again, but this time here to stay

My introduction at Alas, A Blog : Hi all. My name is Kay Olson (known in the past and in the archives here as Blue or Blue Lily ) and I writ...