I'm really, really excited about Jana's presentation of the carnival, up today at PilgrimGirl. The theme is "Borders" and there is so much rich material linked to there, as well as an excerpt from a piece of Jana's writing on Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands. Check it out.The next carnival was scheduled for David's, but since he's off on an exciting, unexpected trip to Costa Rica (!), the Kuusisto's are hosting #17 at Planet of the Blind on Thursday, June 28. I hear that the theme will be "Laughter, The Best Medicine." Deadline is Monday, June 25, and further info on submitting is available at the carnival site here.
Visual description of the carnival icon above: Penny made this several carnivals ago and being a thorough historian she describes it herself: "The image is from an 1803 etching by Robert Dighton, depicting Brook Watson (1735-1807), an English merchant and politician who lost his lower right leg to a shark attack in his youth (while swimming off the coast of Havana, Cuba, in 1749)." It's a color drawing of an old man in profile, wearing a brown coat and knicker pants. His right leg is amputated below the knee, and replaced with a wooden peg. The other leg has a bandage on it and he is using a cane. The words "Disability Blog Carnival" are superimposed over his middle section.
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