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 I started an English-language Wikipedia article on Tazu Sasaki yesterday. She was a Japanese writer of children's books. She was also, apparently, the first Japanese blind person to have a trained guide dog. In 1962 she traveled to the UK to work with the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association in Leamington for several weeks, and returned to Japan with Roberta, a yellow Labrador. An

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 It's been a few years since May 1 was Blogging Against Disablism Day, but I still think of BADD when the calendar turns. This year, WikiProject Women in Red is having a virtual editathon on Women & Disability during May. (Yes, you can join in!) I figure I can make an appearance here and report what I'm doing for that editathon, which will mostly be writing new biographical articles,

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I know this blog is dormant, but this is where I need to say Rest in Peace, to blogger Jean McWherter Flynn, who died yesterday in an Ohio nursing home from an infection. She was posting on Facebook right up to the day before; I don't think she expected to leave quite so suddenly, but she seemed aware of (and justifiably angry about) her situation and its limits. Jean was one of my first "blog

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Okay, I'm here for BADD 2016, because how could I break our eleven-year streak of participation? I couldn't.  I'm not so much of a blogger these days, but I'm willing to add my bit to the big event.  For our past ten appearances in the series: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006. (For the record, the 2007 and 2008 entries are two of my favorite blog posts I've

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Call for Papers Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives Special Issue: Disability Studies Quarterly (Fall 2017) Editors: David Turner, Kirsti Bohata, Steven Thompson, Swansea University In/ability to work plays a critical role in definitions of dis/ability, but the complexities of the relationship between people with disabilities and the world of work have only recently started

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Stacey asked me to keep a lookout for historical people who had muscular dystrophy--and I said "sure!" because that's right up my alley.  So I started poking around on Wikipedia, of course. Some stories that caught my attention this morning are below, in chronological order by date of birth. As usual, it isn't the most diverse list; there's definitely room for a wider array of stories on

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from Steven Taylor: Voices of Madness, Voices of Mental ill-health Centre for Health Histories, University of Huddersfield 15th- 16th Sept 2016 In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historians to lower their gaze so that they might better understand patient-doctor roles in the past, historians have sought to place the voices of previously, silent, marginalised and disenfranchised

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CFP: Disability and Deafness in Literature for Young People (Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies special issue) Guest editors: Chloë Hughes and Elizabeth A. Wheeler This special issue of the JLCDS aims to bring together an international and  multidisciplinary base of readers and writers who explore disability in  literature published for young people. While disability

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From the DHA: The Disability History Association promotes the relevance of disability to broader historical enquiry and facilitates research, conference travel, and publication for scholars engaged in any field of disability history. The Disability History Association is excited to announce its 5th AnnualOutstanding Publication Award. The award alternates between books and peer-reviewed

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Over the past few years, I've made my son some cardboard costumes for his Quickie2 wheelchair.  There are some advantages to using old boxes for this purpose--lightweight, cheap, easy to find, and easy to cut and spraypaint and puncture and duct-tape. They're pretty much flat, so he doesn't feel enclosed, and they can fit in the back of our minivan.  If he bends or tears any parts, it's

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Hey! A new post at DSTU.  As I've mentioned, in recent years I've been putting some energy into Wikipedia. I like writing new entries there, because it feels like that's going to reach a much bigger audience than a journal article or a paywalled reference. And, as part of WikiProject Disability, some of my entries are about disability topics (of course). Since last BADD in May, I've started

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Ahem.  Hello? Hello? Okay, I'm here for BADD 2015, because how could I break our ten-year streak of participation? I couldn't.  I'm not so much of a blogger these days, but I'm willing to add my bit to the big event.  For our past nine appearances in the series: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006. (For the record, the 2007 and 2008 entries are two of my

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This is the AAG Disability Specialty Group featured session, right before the business meeting at the AAG Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois (April 21-25, 2015). Mike 1177 Questioning geography’s ‘healthy subject’ I: Geography and Mental Health(Sponsored by Disability Specialty Group, Cultural Geography Specialty Group, Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group ) Friday, April 24

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Statue of Enrico Toti in Rome; much-larger-than-life muscular male nude, holding a crutch, with his left leg ending mid-thigh.  In a park setting, with blue skies.  Base is inscribed with his name and other text in Italian. With all the WWI centenary coverage, we were moved to come across this statue at the Villa Borghese gardens, on a recent family vacation in Rome.  Enrico

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Manke Nelis (1919-1983), a Dutch singer and musician whose right leg was amputated after a motorcycle accident in the 1950s; in this image, he is an older man on a sports field, singing into a microphone, with his arms raised.  His sweatshirt reads "Nelis Goes to Hollywood." Image from Wikimedia Commons (of course). (Blowing dust from the mike) Tap tap tap.... hello? testing... hello?

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"We cannot claim to have reached anywhere near to where a society should be in terms of practical equality of the disabled. We continue to try. We realise that legislation and regulations are not sufficient or the end of the long walk to equality and non-discrimination. Education, raising of awareness, conscientisation, eradication of stigmatisation: these are key elements in achieving

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Two obituaries came to my attention this morning. Both women died more than a year ago, but I'm just seeing these now. If I write about them here, I won't forget to follow up with getting Wikipedia entries going about them, when the time allows. I first mentioned Anita Lee Blair (pictured at left, a white woman dressed in a dark suit, in a portrait with her guide dog Fawn) at this blog a few

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Just ran across this tidbit in the transcript of a 1997 oral history interview with Masatoshi Koshiba (b. 1926), a Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 2002:  Koshiba: ...Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's

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So you're hosting an exhibit on disability and accessibility at your museum.  Cool!  It's within a day's drive of my house, so can my family come see it?  Oh.  Okay, never mind.(Thanks to Rachel Cohen-Rattenberg for the heads up.)

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Check out the latest virtual exhibit on disability history, from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History!  From the press release:         The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has just launched EveryBody: An Artifact History of Disability in America to explore themes and events related to the history of people with disabilities in

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[Note:  Leroy F. Moore Jr. of Berkeley, California, USA, is a Black disabled poet, activist, journalist, and founder of Krip-Hop Nation, an international collective of musicians with disabilities.  He offered to write up an note about his activities for Disability Studies Temple U., and I said "yes, please!" Enjoy. --PLR] Zululand Gospel Choir performing in a studio Since I was 10

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David Moylan (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress"THE ARMLESS JUDGETen years ago David Moylan was a railroad switchman working in a Cleveland yard. A switch engine running in the dark without a headlight ran him down and cut off both his arms. That would have settled the fate of most men. And it did settled Moylan's fate--but not in the usual way. He firmly declined to pass

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It's that time of year again--for the eighth May in a row, it's Blogging Against Disablism Day, hosted by the ever-excellent Goldfish.  How many things last eight years online, with hundreds of quality contributions, from bloggers all over the world? This has. We've contributed to BADD every year--sometimes with a long essay, sometimes with a calendar, sometimes with a paragraph,

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Join us and many, many other disability bloggers for BADD 2013, hosted once again by the excellent Goldfish.  This will be our eighth year in the swarm, meaning we've never yet missed a chance to join in.  Our previous contributions: 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

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From:  http://www.dis-ind-soc.org.uk/en/events.htm?id=1Roadshow: The Price of Coal Sat 23rd March 2013 National Waterfront Museum, Swansea Disability history roadshow at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, 23rd March 2013 (10am–4pm). Click here for the day's programme (PDF) Click here for the flyer (PDF) Did you or a member of your family work in the coal industry in south

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