i forgot to include my appreciation of torontonian buses in my post about my recent visit to canada... i was very impressed that some of them have bicycle racks on the front =grin= i liked that very much. and i found them more reliably accessible than london buses (but i also understand i could've just been lucky) - both in design and functioning, ( Read more... )

[written as a comment in nyecamden's journal post herepeople in a number of comments have asked, or stated they don't understand, what are the access issues perceived (by friends of nye, and in some places specifically referencing me) with doggetts coat and badge ( Read more... )

nyecamden is currently haivng some interestng thougths and conversaitons about access and inclusion within/at london bi events and/or 'community'.

there's a lot of discussion of some of the issues focussing around this post.

and there's the expression of wanting to do work around inclusion, and a call for others who also want to in this postall things ( Read more... )

saturday night saw my energised self leaving the transfabulous arts festival to head in the direction of stepney green and behind bars, having been plied with banana and a flyer by john (with a silent h, iirc). telephonically confirming that it was the same party that parallelgirl and khalinche were heading for, lurch and i pulled up in mile end to meet and stroll over ( Read more... )

conversations in this post have got me compiling a list of venues-in-which-to-socialise that i've accessed and their merits/downsides (wrt physical, sensory and other access needs). it's very much a work in progress, and it will probably take me a bit of time to get just the experiences/info i've collected so far down ( Read more... )

i'm not sure when i'll get to type this up, so where it starts is fairly irrelevent to this beginning. right now i'm sat in cismigiu gardens of an evening, watching inline skaters & an exchange between dog walkers, MTB cyclists & balloon bearers, people old & young, among those passing and sitting. this wasn't what i've been wanting to write about ( Read more... )