Depicted is an older railroad car with two accessibility symbols. A man with his head strongly tilted to the side is standing on a lift to go from the train to the ground. A uniformed person is assisting. For information...

Wikipedia describes this record as: Cripplers is a limited vinyl only 7″ EP by the hardcore punk band This Is Hell. It features cover songs, unreleased songs, and one new song “Infected” later to be featured on their 2008 album...

Jazzy Peacock by A. Laura Brody When I first learned about the art exhibit Opulent Mobility I was intrigued. An LA artist, A. Laura Brody, used wheelchairs and a walker as a base for fanciful, beautiful, impractical devices. The equipment...

Wholesome? Yes, wholesome I was in LA for a disability art show. Fortunately I was able to fit in dinner with a longtime friend who lives down there. We were sharing all our disability news when I was surprised a...

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...

First off, the new biopic of Stephen Hawking, “The Theory of Everything” is a pretty good movie, but not great. I enjoyed it but I have a pretty high tolerance for disability schmaltz. I dislike overcomer stories but don’t gag...

I was hanging out in the bar with a bunch of folks at SDS last June. One of the party innocently asked, “What do you guys think about the new access symbol business?” Even dead sober I couldn’t help but...

Got an email from Risty Byce, a wheelchair using, rock ‘n’ roll drummer atI didn’t follow popular music, and metal in particular, too closely in the early 90s. This Queensrÿche video was brand new to me when Risty sent me...

Has anyone noticed that the newly promoted, active accessibility symbol looks a lot like Good Willy? The newly promoted, more active accessibility symbol. Good Willy, the Goodwill Industries logo from the 1950s

My sister and me at Poly in Pasadena That’s me with my sister Paula on the grounds of Polytechnic School in Pasadena. Notice the backpack. It seems like I spent an inordinate amount of time from middle school through college...

Wrestler Buff Bagwell and his wheelchair action figure with new Wheelchair Playset.Every once and awhile I search for wheelchair action figures. This week I found WrestlingFigures.com’s Wheelchair Playset. You can get the wheelchair in any one of six colors. I...

In the summer of 1972 I spent weeks in Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley. I had managed to get third degree burns on my foot, which got infected. After IV antibiotics, a skin graft and months of elevating my leg...

Over the past four years I have had the incredible opportunity to produce lectures on disability in the fine arts at San Francisco’s de Young Museum. The museum is housed in a new lavish, cutting edge building. In my typical...

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...

It’s happening again! I’m giving an updated, improved, higher quality presentation on disability art and art by disabled people. I’ll be showing examples and discussing the various ways works created by disabled people are created and displayed. And, I’ll guide...

Sunday, July 28, 4:00 pm and Wednesday, August 28, 4:00 pmPetaluma Art Center$5.00 donation suggestedA presentation examining the differences between disability art and art that is made by disabled people, and its implications for disabled artists and community based programs....

Just last May, in Chicago, the Bodies of Work Festival rocked me. I was there for 8 days to swim in disability culture, see my arty-type friends, and, oh yeah, visit my niece who I hadn’t seen in years. The...

John Hockenberry, the wheelchair-using journalist and author of Moving Violations, is now heard every day from noon to 1:00 of KQED, FM 88.5. Welcome back John!The show Takeaway has been running for awhile in other markets.

There’s been a flurry of 1970s and 80s albums from Christian disabled singers. I think it’s part of the weird album cover fad, rather than any particular interest in disability. Danny Scholl’s 1980s LP Scholl album back cover

I have a rather checkered relationship with tequila. We parted company about 30 years ago, but I still clearly remember how sick I would feel the morning after the night before.