New books on theology and disability

I haven't read a book on disability and religion since The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability by Nancy Eiesland ...

Call for submissions on feminism, disability & activism

From the f word : The Feminist Activist Forum is calling for submissions for a zine on feminism, disability and activism: Disability has b...

7 Wheelchairs reviewed by NYT

Image description: Color photo of Gary Presley's book cover for "7 Wheelchairs: A Life Beyond Polio." A close-up photo of one ...

Check out the 37th edition of the Disability Blog Carnival

Did you know that Dorothea Lange , famed Depression-era photographer, had polio and that her experience with disability informed her work? M...

Culture, chaos theory and choice

So, in my BADD post the other day, I explicitly noted the evil of our U.S. foreign policy in Iraq -- our war that, among other things, disa...

The Speed of Dark

Back in June of 2005, anticipating the 15th anniversary of the ADA, I wrote about "The Excuse of Architecture" and cited a New Mo...

The DaDa Awards

Liz Crow and her Roaring Girl Productions is my biggest blogging failure. Liz and I first exchanged emails well over a year ago and I volun...

Disability journals

The Fall 2007 issue of the Society for Disability Studies' journal, Disability Studies Quarterly , is available free online. The topic i...

The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory

Disability is all about adaptation. That's not news to me. As performance artist Neil Marcus has said, "Disability is an art—an ing...

Wagadu journal on disability

The summer volume of the Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies is a special issue on “Intersecting Gender and Disabilit...

Frida Kahlo -- Celebrating the 100th anniversary of her birth

Artist Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Mexico City, Mexico, to a Mexican Indian and Spanish mother and Hungarian Jewish father. Sh...

Wiki frenzy

There are several new wikis focusing on disability information that have popped up recently. Like with all wikis, they're a work in pro...

Australian academics suspended over criticism of thesis on laughing at the disabled

A short summary of the story from The Courier Mail : TWO academics have been suspended without pay for six months for criticising a thesis w...

Poetry: Robert Pinsky

Below is a poem by Robert Pinsky, who served as U.S. Poet Laureate in the late '90s. The new Journal of Literary Disability also has an...

Marie Chouinard

bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS Look for the video at the link above under "works" (video NSFW). A description from the website of ...

Gas lamps as angels

Lisel Mueller's poem on Monet is part of her Pulitzer prize-winning collection, Alive Together . Years ago I saw a great presentation of...

Well, crap

The good news is the possibility of a collaborative book with son Jamie. I look forward to that.

Choosing a college

Sitemeter tells me that someone wandered here with the Google phrase "I'm a disabled teen looking for the right college" despi...

Books for the new year

Happy New Year everyone! Like every book lover I know, I've got a towering (and growing) pile of books waiting to be read. I thought I...

Finding the language, making the connection

I've written in the past about being a disabled person before disability studies provided a real forum for discussing social issues abo...