Disability as a Positive Influence on Life
From Bad Cripple, an excellent example of how self-definition differs and succeeds wheregroup definition fails.Disability is bad. No one wants to be blind, deaf or paralyzed. Common sense dictates this...
View ArticleBridezilla and Back from the Dead
I would like to apologize to all of my readers for my long and sudden absence. I had thought that I might need to take some time off for the whole business of getting married, but the intensity of the...
View ArticleeurOut's videoblog about Dutch lesBian culture and life!
"Lesbians caught on video" is eurOut’s new vlog about Dutch lesbian life and culture. The Netherlands were the first country to allow same-sex marriage but what is it like to be lesBian there today?...
View ArticleExorcising Ghosts
I originally wrote this for my blog Wheelchair Dancer. I hope it speaks to you. The second voice in this is that of my longtime partner, Wizard.In the belief/hope that narrative can formalize and...
View ArticleBecoming Disabled On the Job
In the months after I was hired at my first adult job -- the thing I had studied for, for over ten years -- my immediate supervisor informed me from behind his desk that they had hired a thoroughbred....
View ArticleWhat to do with a cadaver: our relationship to the dead.
Have you ever seen a dead human body? Some day, we will all become one.What will your body look like when you are dead? How will it feel?Real dead bodies are all around us. Everyone we know dies....
View ArticleMother of Many - short film about midwifery.
I was reading Bloody Show this morning. It's a relatively new blog that touches on midwifery and "intersections of health and race, class, sex, gender, sexuality and disability."This particular find...
View ArticleMoments
I found this beautiful reflection as I was pouring a bowl of cereal. It's a great way to start this day. Moments from Everynone on Vimeo.The image that struck me sharpest was the footprint on the...
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