I'm sure many of you have heard about the movie "Tropic Thunder", which stars Robert Downey Jr. in blackface and Ben Stiller portraying an intellectualy disabled individual. Many activists in the disabled community have protested this movie (including myself), and rightfully so. However, I'm getting sick of hearing "How come people get all bent ( Read more... )

A long time ago, someone posted a link to a video. In it, the world was populated by and designed for people who use wheelchairs, and it showed someone who wasn't in a wheelchair running into all kinds of trouble trying to negotiate his way around the world. It was kind of a "See, this is what the world is like if you use a wheelchair," type of ( Read more... )