eBay has gone crazy for disability vinyl LP records. This album, although priceless, was posted with a starting bid of $95.00! Most disability-related posts on eBay don’t go for very much, but for some reason records do. “Little Roy, the Crippled Boy” used to go for $7 or $8, but then one auction hit $45 […]
Next Wednesday, November 14, at the newly christened and leadered Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability. I’ll be presenting Disability Rocks!, A musical journey through disability and popular music. Disabled songs, singers, and songwriters including everyone from Gene Vincent, and Marilyn Manson, to Nick Jonas, will have their moment in the disability culture spotlight. Join […]
Don’t miss the newest event in the Access Series on Disability and Art at the de Young Museum Feature by FeatureChuck Close, Prosopagnosia, and Pixels Lecture by Amanda Cachiawith Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Anthony Tusler de young Museum | Koret Auditorium saturday, october 1310:30 a.m., reception following In conjunction with the exhibition Chuck Close and Crown […]
This month’s Telling Our Disability Stories interview is Amanda Cachia.Amanda is a free lance, fine arts curator from Sydney, Australia. She has organized exhibitions focusing on social justice issues including disability. Recently she selected and organized “Medusa’s Mirror: Fears, Spells & Other Transfixed Positions” for Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland. The show included 8 artists […]
I was reminded again the other day about the etymology of handicapped. Last night I threw together a quick pasta sauce to put over Costco raviolis. Our neighbor has been kind enough to loan use freezer space for small, plastic bags of mooshed-up tomatoes from last summer. The defrosted tomatoes with a little added fresh […]
Rahnee Patrick is the Director of Independent Living at Access Living in Chicago. Access Living is one of the preeminent independent living centers in the country. At Access Living she addresses equal educational access for students with disabilities in Chicago Public Schools and the holistic well being of youth with disabilities which include their self-esteem, […]
The first outsider artist I remember was Wild Man Fischer. Back in the heyday of Warner Bros records, the late 60s, Frank Zappa recorded Wild Man Fischer. Fischer had been discovered singing on the streets for 10 cents a song. I heard his recording, “Songs for Sale,” on one of the great Warner Bros/Reprise sampler […]
Last October I gave a talk on how disability culture and identity impacted Henri Toulouse-Lautrec at the de Young Museum. It was for the Disability Open House. We chose Toulouse-Lautrec because the museum was exhibiting “Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay.” There were three pieces by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec in […]
Under the influence of our 14 year old, dance-crazed neighbor I’ve watched Glee from the beginning. (Under her influence I’ve also watched every episode of So You Think You Can Dance for the past three years.) On first watch of Glee I was impressed with how exaggerated and over the top the show was. It […]
February 20, 2010 Tribal Membership This week I received an email from someone I didn’t know, a wheelchair user. He’s a quad who became disabled after a diving accident over thirty-five years ago. How do I know all that from the first line of his email? He told me. It read, “I am a C5-6 […]