I thought I coined a phrase–criperati. I may have made it up, but there’s been others that also did. Google coughed up a couple two days after I started looking for antecedents. I see the use of criperti as recognition that the disability community is stratified even though we like to think we’re completely egalitarian. […]
Category: self determination
A New Disability Hero!
We have another hero. Hugh Gallagher gave us FDR. The world knew FDR was disabled, but until Gallagher none of us knew that FDR’s disability experience had a profound effect on his life and world view. After polio, FDR began to root for the poor. I know, hero is so overused when it is applied […]
Mark O’Brien’s Sessions
I’m puzzled by the new disability movie, “The Sessions.” The movie gives me way too many things to think about—just like life. I’m gratified that a movie about disability gives me so much to ponder. Simply, “The Sessions” presents the day-to-day life of a disabled man and his quest to get laid for the first […]
Megan O’Neil & Disability Economic Development on TODS podcast
Megan O’NeilMegan O’Neil, disability and economic development expert is this month’s Telling Our Disability Stories podcast. She is a Hearne Award Honoree and was the Access to Assets Project Coordinator at the World Institute on Disability. Megan discusses the ins and outs of disability policy advocacy in this important interview. Her perspectives on the nature […]
Telling Our Disability Stories with Stella Young
Telling Our Disability Stories is proud to present Australia’s own Stella Young. Stella Young is a comedian, disability advocate and Editor of the ABC (Australia) Broadcast Corporation’s Ramp Up, the online space for news, discussion and opinion about disability in Australia. She was a two-time state finalist in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Raw Comedy […]
Rahnee Patrick on Telling Our Disability Stories
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, […]
Tribal Membership
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 […]
First US Braille Coin
The day before the nation’s independence day (not ours on July 26) the US Mint unveiled a new bicentennial silver dollar celebrating the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille’s birth. The picture at Language Log shows a rather large, copper colored, coin with a four braille characters spelling Brl, short for Braille, and a relief of […]