Okay, I am getting a wheelchair plate for my green Element. The plates are white with navy blue writing ( Read more... )

Here are the details about Sunday's concert down at the Lincoln Memorial. Except for the massive fups about censoring Gene Robinson's invocation and the non-free reality of the "free" broadcast (see link for the whole story on both), I liked the concert ( Read more... )

When tigrlily-61 left for a year in the United Arab Emirates, I thought she'd pretty much left LJ behind. I was startled (and pleased) to see I was wrong, and for anyone on my flist with an interest in disability, feminism,* Britain, the Persian Gulf, I want to send you to a post of hers from this past March about her attendance at a disability conference ( Read more... )

If you didn't see my original note yesterday afternoon about Schwarzenegger appointing his nanny to the California State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind, it is here.

Someone in blindpeople asked me why this is a problem. Here's why ( Read more... )

Don't bother writing Schwarzenegger unless you live in California, and even then, you're probably wasting your time. To apply pressure that will require him to respond, write to major California newspapers. I missed this amid election news, so forgive me please if the you've already heard about this. Crossposting to blindpeople, dot_gimp_snark, no_pity, and my own LJ. -- Ankh ( Read more... )