There is a whole weekend coming up dedicated to celebrating our disabled hero, Frida Kahlo. It will be here in San Francisco from Friday, July 5 through Sunday July 7, 2013. There are four events planned—all looking like too much...

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...

Nobody wanted one, but nonetheless, I had to do it. It’s the SDS Summer Camp t-shirt. Just go to light color or dark to order yours now. I’ve been going to the SDS conferences for years. I remember when they...

The Shriners Hospitals have done much good work, but Swingin’ for Crippled Children?

Every Sunday the San Francisco Chronicle runs a column called the Wayback Machine in the Pink Section. The editor, Johnny Miller, goes through the Chronicle’s archives from 25, 50, 75, and 100 years ago. He finds interesting stories, most of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Stella Young, Editor of Ramp Up 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,...

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...

Sandie Yi's gloves.PDF FlyerSandie Yi will illustrate and discuss Crip Couture, her collection of disability fashion, at the de Young Museum Access Advisors Open House and Disability Arts Festival, 11–noon, Saturday March 31, 2012, in the Koret Auditorium. Free admission....

An Autumn For Crippled Children Here’s a shift. Rather than a death metal band using rude disability imagery, e.g. Cannibal Corpse doing “Rancid Amputation,” here’s an experimental band named An Autumn for Crippled Children.You can find them on the newly...

New Disability CDMost of us know Robert David Hall as the crutch-using coroner on CSI. He’s now joined the rare ranks of disabled singers and songwriters who write and record music about disability, . At least, that’s how I’m going...

Anthony & the maker, David, with off road, people-powered wheelchair mover. Yes, it has drawbacks—many, but this wheelchair mover is the most comfortable off-road conveyance I’ve tried. OK, it wouldn’t fit in my van. It needs somebody energetic to push...

For the past few years I’ve been submitting my disability-related photographs—no sunsets, no dappled brooks—to art shows for disabled artists with mixed results. The latest, "Equity for All Artists," is at Gallery 85 on La Cienega in LA. It’s sponsored...

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....

Where the Hits Keep ComingSometimes songwriters get disability just right. It’s not often. For every non-stereotypical, realistic portrayal of disability there’s two dozen country weepers or maudlin overcoming narratives. Today, I was listening to my favorite radio station, KALX. It’s...