Music Friday: Antony and the Johnsons

My newest music obsession is Antony and the Johnsons . Antony Hegarty is, as described by SignOnSan Diego , a "brawny-looking, transsex...

Sign language in Sia's videos

Sia, an Australian pop singer perhaps best known for her song "Breathe Me" which played during the closing sequence of the Six Fe...

Wheelchairs in modern furniture design

David Pompa , an Austria-based designer, has created a collection of office furniture called Surreal Minimalism that includes eight chairs c...

Slumgullion #46

A random collection of links, starting with blog posts on Palin and disability: Sarahlynn at Yeah, But Houdini Didn't have These Hips w...

Friday Music: The Blind Boys of Alabama

The Blind Boys of Alabama are an old-school gospel group that's been singing and touring since 1939. Yeah, 1939 . That's a lot of c...

Praying with Lior

I've heard good things about a new documentary film, Praying with Lior , only opening now in a few cities and playing primarily at Jewis...

Update: Casting director fired from "Shelter" flick

According to the AP : A casting director for the horror thriller "Shelter" has been fired after West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin...

Blackface/Yellowface/*face

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Preschoolers: What happens when people get old?

Image description: A large piece of butcher paper hangs in an outdoor display of drawings by preschoolers prompted by the question "Wha...

Deaf Karaoke with David Armand

Direct link to YouTube video here . This is a live performance of the song "Torn" by comedian David Armand of The Hollow Men wit...

Friday music: Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie is a talented percussionist who is also profoundly deaf. As she explains , media attention that focuses on the state of her h...

Movie review: Living in Oblivion

Well, a mini-review. Because kactus is right , Peter Dinklage's rant toward the end of this film is both hilarious and great righteous a...

What would that look like?

In the recent discussion of Aimee Mullins in Sports Illustrated , Sara, Trin and I have been debating Mullins' portrayal in that mag, an...

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...

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...