Poetry: Cheryl Marie Wade

I Am Not One Of The by Cheryl Marie Wade I am not one of the physically challenged- I'm a sock in the eye with gnarled fist I'm a Fr...

Disability Blog Carnival #13 at Ballastexistenz

Yeah, I may be posting this a little early. But I expect the carnival will be up at Amanda Bagg's blog Ballastexistenz sometime today a...

Poetry: Lynn Emanuel

Tourists by Lynn Emanuel In Tunis we try to discuss divorce And dying but give up to lounge With rug merchants under a plum tree. From its...

Things that crack me up, #26

The Gimp Parade is the ninth Google result for the search: replacement parts for older japanese vacuums Because, you know, that's what ...

Is Roger Ebert a disability activist?

Melissa McEwan at Shakesville notes that Roger Ebert has just released a statement in his home paper the Chicago Sun-Times about his fight...

Things that crack me up, #25

Finally, some recognition that we have friends that need venue seating too. Visual description: Two ordinary Western-style toilets, one with...

Poetry: Michael Ryan

April is National Poetry Month , you know. I'm not feeling very introspective myself, and so I surf, finding interesting verse: Letters ...

A life sentence in prison for Daphne Wright

I wrote about the Wright murder trial here and here , but I'm going to defer to the Deaf bloggers that have been covering this case so ...

Carnivals new and upcoming, and the second annual BADD

Just a few hours left to contribute to the disability carnival at Ballastexistenz on the topic of "What Box?" Amanda says: Remem...

Have you seen Michael Patrick Vaughn?

Fellow blogger Kevin over at Slant Truth : My brother has been missing for some time now. Seriously. My moms has even hired private investig...

Poetry Monday: Kenny Fries

To The Poet Whose Lover Has Died Of AIDS by Kenny Fries . . . then the wasting begins and the disappearance a day at a time. -- Mark Doty T...

Slumgullion #36 -- The deranged killer edition

The Republic of T -- How to Create a School Shooter : Am I blaming the victims of the VA Tech shooting? No. I’m blaming the guy who picked u...

504 Sit-in Anniversary

Ed Roberts: Congressional Hearings in the Federal Building, Friday April 15, 1977, conducted by Congresspersons Phil Burton and George Mil...

On Virginia Tech

My thoughts go out to the families and friends of those killed at Virginia Tech. It's hard to know what to say about such devastating vi...

Double discrimination for ethnic minority children with autism

Source: BBC News Excerpt: A National Autistic Society report on "the reality for families" suggests 62% of parents had no choice o...

Transgenderism and disability rights

Found via Trinity at The Strangest Alchemy , this post by Eli Clare , which is a transcript of Eli's keynote speech at the FORGE Forwar...

Poetry Monday: Every Man's Burden

The Magic Wand by Lynn Manning Quick-change artist extraordinaire, I whip out my folded cane and change from black man to blind man with a f...

A musical interlude with Joni Mitchell

When Mitchell was 9 she got polio, and while the effects of the disease have not been readily apparent to most of her fans, her music has be...

Things that crack me up, #24

From Flickr by gmack24 Visual description: It's a photo of a brown sign posted to a cement wall. There's a walking pedestrian with a...

Daphne Wright found guilty of murder; death penalty decision yet to come

I recently wrote about Daphne Wright , the Deaf black lesbian charged with a brutal murder in South Dakota. This week the jury found her gui...

Disability Carnival #12 at From Where I'm Sitting

It's on crip culture of all kinds. Go . Enjoy. Tokah has done a remarkable job! The next carnival is scheduled to be at Ballastexistenz...

New to the blogroll

Although some of these used to inhabit my blogroll before the great sidebar catastrophe of January , I've just added the following under...

Mini-Slumgullion #35

Lots of people think politics don't really matter, but if you're one of the poor and disabled people who have to rely on the gover...

A musical interlude

"Girl Anachronism" by The Dresden Dolls the lyrics by Amanda Palmer: you can tell from the scars on my arms and cracks in my hips ...

Poetry Monday: The Knife of Language

Helen Takes the Stage by Kathi Wolfe (Helen Keller starred in a vaudeville show The Bluebird of Happiness in 1924.) Here I am, playing,...

If Skippy or Sarahlynn sent you: Welcome!

Thanks for coming, and thanks to Skippy and Sarahlynn . If you want to read a couple things I've written recently (as opposed to Things...

As it should be, of course

The Gimp Parade is the number one result of a Google search for: "she is a very sexy vent dependent quadriplegic" How I love that ...

"Autism Speaks" creator on Oprah

Kristina Chew at Autism Vox reports that Oprah will feature "The Faces of Autism" on April 5 (tomorrow), except those faces will ...

Things that crack me up, #23

From Flickr contributor giginger Visual description: A window display with five different wheelchairs among green and warm reddish-orange cu...

Medical professionals who are excellent, asses and part of a failing system

My posse and I trekked into the Twin Cities this morning (despite threats of dangerous weather that have come true all around Minnesota ove...