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New book on Buck v. Bell
Image description: The cover of Lombardo's book shows sepia-toned photographs of two women and an infant. Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell by Paul...
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Things that crack me up #48
Image description: A color photo posted to Flickr by Trevor Coultart shows a white rectangular sign with the black image of Wheelchair guy inside a red circle. To the right, the direction Wheelchair...
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7 Wheelchairs reviewed by NYT
Image description: Color photo of Gary Presley's book cover for "7 Wheelchairs: A Life Beyond Polio." A close-up photo of one back wheel of a manual wheelchair.Gary Presley's new book, 7 Wheelchairs: A...
View ArticleAutism in Minnesota Somali community
I'm spending the day with family, but here's something interesting, controversial and meaty to read "On Autism, Somalis Feels the Chill in Minnesota," from Age of Autism. It's controversial for a...
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Friday Music Mix Tape
I'm trying something new, thanks to Grace. I did it for me, but then I thought I'd share it.The above image of a cassette tape (with a vintage black-and-white photo on it from Warm Springs Institute of...
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Lame Duck
Image description: A color cartoon drawing of a white duck with George Bush's head and one hand, but a duck bill for a mouth. He's holding the red hotline phone and there's a cast on one duck foot. The...
View ArticleWhen the wheels make the man, part 3
From the Sunday Mail in the UK, we get this headline:Wheelchair pervert David Bennie jailed for decade of child abuseNo, the man was not being perverted with a wheelchair. He just sits in one, though...
View ArticleKorean girl still to be cared for by family of rapists
Here's the story in its entirety from The Korea Times, the only English-language, non-blogger source I could find for it:Court Ruling on Rapists Draws AngerBy Kim RahnStaff ReporterA court handed down...
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Things that crack me up #49
Wheelchair Guy becomes an astronaut. The photo from failblog.com shows a parking space with Wheelchair Guy, the international symbol of accessibility, painted in the space. Except the wheel part of the...
View ArticleWhen the wheels make the man, part 4
Out of Spokane, Washington, news of a man who uses a wheelchair falsely reporting being assaulted. The Washington state TV station KXLY offered this headline on Tuesday:Police: Man made up wheelchair...
View ArticleCall for submissions on feminism, disability & activism
From the f word:The Feminist Activist Forum is calling for submissions for a zine on feminism, disability and activism:Disability has been treated as an unglamorous side-issue within feminist activism....
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Friday Music: Neil Young
Image description: From 2007, a color photo of Neil Young from the waist up. He's giving the peace sign while standing at a microphone dressed all in black save for a silver bolo tie.The casually...
View ArticleNew books on theology and disability
I haven't read a book on disability and religion since The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability by Nancy Eiesland came out in the mid-'90s. That's a great book, by the way, but it's...
View ArticleTomorrow is Wednesday again
It's also International Human Rights Day.Wednesday is, you mayremember, the day on which, most weeks, Ray Sandford of Columbia Heights, Minnesota, is woken up early and taken to a nearby hospital for...
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Things that crack me up #50
Image description: A color photo of a sign that has Wheelchair Dude and several other access symbols in a row above writing in an Asian language, with English below that. Along with Wheelchair Dude...
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Things that crack me up #51
Image description: A color photo of a nice little sign for restrooms showing a female figure, Wheelchair Dude (I consider "Dude" gender-neutral -- dooooode), and a male figure, all in variations of the...
View ArticleWhen the wheels make the man, part 5
From Dayton, Ohio, a man who uses a wheelchair burgles a restaurant four times in one week. Naturally, the headline about it reads:Wheelchair burglar raids restaurant four times in weekIt wouldn't have...
View ArticleWhen the wheels make the man, part 6
For the first time in this series, the wheelchair makes the woman instead of the man. Not really an improvement.From the Australia Courier Mail, a headline about a man stalking a woman:Man, 82, accused...
View ArticleWhen the wheels make the man, part 7
From newsday.com, we get this headline:Woman accused in wheelchair death faces homicide chargeYeah. The death was actually that of a human being, a man using a motorized wheelchair. It was a...
View ArticleMusic Friday: Antony and the Johnsons
My newest music obsession is Antony and the Johnsons. Antony Hegarty is, as described by SignOnSan Diego, a "brawny-looking, transsexual Irish-American maverick with a wonderfully androgynous voice and...
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