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Over the past month, I’ve come across so many disability news and blog posts ranging from fun and fierce to powerful and poignant. (Yes, I adore alliteration. Okay, I’ll stop now.) Really though, one of my favorite parts of wandering around the Internet is discovering new disability-related writing. Read on below the picture for this month’s round-up. For more, you can also check out the list of past round-ups at the bottom of this post.
Disability Articles
- Disability and live music: inequality begins with ticketing – Buying concert tickets should be a pretty simple affair. You want to see a concert, you wait until tickets go on sale, you buy the tickets. Most of the time, it’s not so easy for the disability community. Purchasing accessible tickets or requesting accommodations tends to require jumping through hoops. Accessible tickets either aren’t available on-line, or they’re available in limited quantities. This usually leads to a game of telephone tag, in which I have to call multiple phone numbers and get passed around from one confused representative to another. The study shared in this article is a great call to action to make it easier for disabled people to attend concerts, and I feel the same logic should apply for all ticketed cultural events.
- New Mobility Person of the Year: Deborah Davis – I aspire to be as awesome as Deborah Davis. She’s started three incredibly awesome disability-related initiatives. PhotoAbility is the coolest one, because it’s a collection of stock photos featuring people with disabilities that Davis plans to market to the mainstream!
- Fashion Blogger Jillian Mercado Stars In Edgy Diesel Ads, Wheelchair And All - If you don’t know who Jillian Mercado is, you should. She is featured in an ad campaign for the brand Diesel, oh, and she has a disability. As much as I long for the day where disabled people in mainstream media is the norm instead of big deal, I do still find this exciting!
- Wheelchair user designs a 3D printable, portable ramp – 3D printers fascinate me. And the thought that a ramp can come out of a printer is particularly wonderful. It would be great to have the ability to print out a ramp that I can take with me to get my chair over train gaps or up high curbs!
Disability Blog Posts
- Natalie & Tim’s green-filled access-a-wedding – Fine, I admit it: I’m a hopeless romantic. But, the reason I’m sharing this link isn’t really to make a fuss over the fact that a disabled man is marrying an evidently non-disabled woman. I just love the pictures and how they went about the whole event!
- What Is So “Special” About This College Acceptance Video? – Lisa Friedman makes a point in this post that I wish the whole world would take to heart already – disabled people experiencing every day things is not inspirational. It’s just living life.
- Why Do You Speak for the Disabled? – Thank goodness for this post. If you haven’t seen the video she references, I recommend watching it…so you can see how NOT to treat disabled people. Let us speak for ourselves!
- #abledpeoplesay awful things sometimes – Just like this writer doesn’t want to speak for the disability community, I don’t want to speak for this post. It’s such an important read. Especially love her commentary on tone-policing. Don’t know what that is? It’s just one more reason for you to go read this!
Noteworthy Disability Advocacy Resource!
- Disability Advocacy through Media Training Course – For a fantastic resource on using media as a tool for advocacy, look no further than this incredibly thorough (and free!) on-line course, developed by Dr. Beth Haller – an advocate who I personally admire.
Did I miss anything you think I should have shared in this round-up? Let me know! I love new reading material!
Past Round-ups:
December 2013
November 2013
October 2013
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