an open letter

Dear Wheelchair Dancer,
Hey sister— thanks for your blog post on the elections, racism, prop 8. I’ve been in such a funny place lately after all of this and your writing really helped me in naming why.
Sylvia posted a tweet the other day about wanting to wrap Obama in bubble wrap, Teflon, a condom, Fort Knox— [...]

Here They Come!: the 37th edition of the Disability Blog Carnival

The words carnival and disability together brings many images to mind. Images of freakshows, disability being manipulated, and all kinds of hard times for disabled people are thought of. Here we are though, in 2008, reclaiming and recycling these words together to mean something new. This disability blog carnival, the 37th one of its kind, [...]

because no, the revolution will not be grant-funded

Since it’s break and I’m finally done with all the stress of the season, I’ve found time to do a little reading, a little crafting, and a little writing.
Right now I’m reading The Revolution Will Not be Funded, a book put together by INCITE!. The book is about movements moving beyond the nonprofit industry complex [a system [...]