Hiya gawkers!

Yesterday I went to Great Clips to get my hair cut. The hairdresser I've had for the past year got a job at the local bank around Chris...

Katie Jones and Deus ex machina

The story of Katie Jones has been circulating slowly on disability listservs and blogs since the December 9 article in the Chicago Tribune ....

"Ransom notes" ad campaign ends

Ari Ne'eman, president of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) that led the protest against the NYU Child Study Center's "...

Blackface/Yellowface/*face

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

The "ransom notes" campaign

We have your son.We are destroying his ability for social interaction and driving him into a life of complete isolation. It's up to you ...

Robert Latimer denied parole

Yesterday, a Canadian parole board in a prison near Victoria denied day parole to Robert Latimer . Latimer is the Saskatchewan farmer servin...

Disability in China

A Chinese woman by the name of Wang Fang declined a disability pension despite being born with feet that face backwards. This is news in Bri...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One more photo

These group action pics give me happy chills. Image description: From observer rachelleb , this color photo is taken from several stories ab...

Ad Council "Crutches" PSA

The Ad Council has a campaign called "Don't Almost Give" and a series of public service announcements that includes one called...

Yes, the road to hell is paved, but that doesn't mean it's accessible

Good intentions are tricky. With philanthropy, you can get so invested in your own self-righteous helpfulness that you fail to see you aren...

Linguistically disabled?

An article by Mark Aronoff in The Chronicle of Higher Education (available free to nonsubscribers for just a few days) asks the question ...

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...

Not "legless": Ten pairs of legs!

There's been a discussion making the rounds on feminist blogs about a recent Sports Illustrated story on Aimee Mullins, double-amputee...

Life without legs

A commentary in the recent Minnesota Women's Press by Ka Vang on being temporarily disabled is entitled "Life without legs" ...