Ben Mattlin of Adventures in Modern Life is looking for examples of media images of disability: I’m looking for suggestions. Been working on a new piece for NPR about media images of disability–specifically, the way certain soft-news and reality TV programs portray people with disabilities as scientific oddities or “amazing but true” objects of medical [...]
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Great piece from FWD/Forward about portrayal of disability in the media today: Up today, ‘Inside the life of a person with disabilities,’ a feature that recently ran at an Ohio ABC affiliate. This article and the accompanying video read like the journalist closely read haddayr?s ‘Plucky Cripples Don?t Let Lack of Bingo Card Stop Them‘ [...]
Feb 082010
As non-football fans, my husband and I enjoy Superbowl Sunday. Streets are empty, shops are quiet and it’s easy to find a seat in the movie theater. One memorable year (football fans will probably remember which year it was, I don’t), we strolled down the middle of Route 123 in downtown McLean, Virginia with not [...]
Oct 142009
It was great to see this letter in the Wall Street Journal’s “Me & My Car” column this morning: Q: I’m a wheelchair user and athlete and am looking to buy a used car that will have enough space to transport our sports equipment (racing wheelchair, hand cycle, regular bicycle and everyday wheelchair) and is [...]
Apr 152009
From today’s paper: On Labor Day that year Clark’s sister was able to talk her through an attack, which was brought on by the stress of planning to go away for the weekend. After that, she was able to stop several other attacks by relaxing during stressful times. “Talk her through an attack”? Maybe it’s [...]
Mar 302009
Charles Todd’s series of books about Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge are, unlike most mainstream fiction, chock full of people with disabilities. The series is set just after the first World War. The authors (mother and son writing team Caroline and Charles Todd) sprinkle characters with disabilities liberally throughout. The disabled include main characters, secondary [...]
Jun 152008
Stole this idea from Dave Hingsburger: how many of the 106 top unread books from LibraryThings have you read? Here’s my list (31 of the top 106): Life of Pi: a novel (one of my kids gave this to me for Christmas a couple of years ago) The Name of the Rose (got this after [...]
Aug 242007
Seeing Eye dog jokes?. Unimaginative, and not funny.
May 192007
Via The 19th Floor, movie critic Roger Ebert: I have received a lot of advice that I should not attend the festival. I’m told that paparazzi will take unflattering pictures, people will be unkind, etc. … I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers. So what? I have been [...]
Jul 042005
Our little home town newspaper had a nice article about Deep Impact, locally slanted. I must get a very early edition of the Denver Post, because its article, below the fold, was headlined “NASA waits for word on comet impact”, which means it must have been filed before midnight. By now, they’ve noticed that it [...]
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