Announcement-y stuff

Well, that's over. Image description: The black-and-white photograph is the upper back of a man with a tribal art tattoo across the sho...

Mini-Slumgullion #43

Shiva at Biodiverse Resistance has written a great post in honor of last week's Transgender Day of Remembrance Remembrance: "Trans...

Art program for disabled children in Uzbekistan

I've been posting images of art about disability that I've found on Flickr lately. But there's a program in Uzbekistan that use...

Legs and other miscellanea

A follow-up to last week's post about "My fat (but actually very normal-sized) legs" to illustrate that I speak the truth: My...

Because I have an index category just for this

This isn't the most amazing picture of Elizabeth and her squirrel friend. (Hee hee, I wanted to say that as an excuse to mention her hi...

More wheelchair mural art

Flickr photo by mike fischer of a fantastically beautiful mural in San Franscisco. (I think Brown- femipower had this image in an entry ab...

Wheelchair mural art

Posted at Flickr in September, 2006, by mexicosolidarity , who leaves this caption: "An incredible banner that has been created in the ...

Gift train

Like a meme, only it can invade your snail mailbox: Via Grace at What If No One's Watching? -- By the end of January, 2008, I will send...

I need me one of these

I thought this was pretty cool. The photo doesn't say exactly where this is taken, but from other photos by the same photographer, I am ...

One more try for Sara

Big family dinner today. Blogging? This is all you get here: Image description: Me and my twin again, skinny legs and all. We're posed a...

Got access?

Cilla Sluga at Big Noise and Justice for All blog have both written recently about an ad for Accessible Cities Alliance that appeared in ...

Transcript for CNN feature on autism

Last night's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN featured a segment on autism with Ballastexistenz' Amanda Baggs (and also Estee Klar-Wolfo...

Amanda Baggs on CNN again tonight

Amanda Baggs of Ballastexistenz will apparently be on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 again this evening. She was featured in an interview ...

My fat (but actually very normal-sized) legs

Almost a year ago, I mentioned some good news about weight gain . Recall that I was starvation-level underweight just two years ago for a va...

Updates to Sidebar

I've been working on my sidebar blogroll links, adding both sites I've recently found and I've followed for a long time. I also ...

On this site's "health-relatedness"

In the past two days I've gotten two emails because of what the senders said is this blog's "health-relatedness." One invi...

Volunteers needed for sex with the disabled

The news is out of Switzerland : A Swiss welfare group is recruiting volunteers to have sex with disabled people. The Basel-based Welfar...

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...

ADA Restoration Act

The ADA Restoration Act is designed to clarify who the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act applies to in order to protect against the incre...

Another episode of: Fun with Sitemeter!

Here are some recent searches that led to this blog. The first three make sense with regard to what I post. The others are interesting but o...

Poetry Monday: Anne Sexton

It was Anne Sexton's birthday last week. I don't know if Hugo Schwyzer was aware of that when he posted about her work, particularl...

Just when you think you're safe

This past August really sucked. September did too. I got a routine feeding tube replacement at the end of July and then had weeks of agony e...

Newsy links

A long long day, so just a couple of links to newish blogs that are excellent resources for disability news and commentary: Patricia E. Baue...

Things that crack me up, #34

Warning: Someone to gawk at ahead Image description: A roadside warning sign. A white triangular sign with a red boarder has an image of a h...

Disability Blog Carnival at Pitt Rehab

Today's latest Disability Blog Carnival, up over at Pitt Rehab , is the 26th. (I know !) Greg's theme is "How do you relax and ...

Marian Elaine Myers

I wish the internets had been big back in the '80s so there'd be an online record of Marian, my best friend in college. My first roo...

The wild life

It feels like winter coming here at the Gimp Compound. This past weekend, my father put up his little hand-turned wooden dish bird feeder an...

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...