I attended our local Day of Mourning Vigil tonight to commemorate the lives of people with disabilities killed by caregivers. Last year was apparently 6 people under a tent. This year we had over 20 people, including several speakers, programs, chairs, a microphone and a ramp to a stage. Even though the purpose was sad, it was empowering to see ( Read more... )

March 1 will be the Disability Day of Mourning ( Read more... )

Today in Britain, news is breaking about somebody arrested on suspicion of murdering three of her children. The lady, Tania Clarence with her husband Gary and their four children, had recently moved into a house in London after having crip adaptations installed. The three youngest children, all dead now, 'suffered from life-limiting genetic ( Read more... )

This really happened. The robber has been convicted. I wonder whether the man he robbed is still brave enough to go out for groceries ( Read more... )

*trigger warning* this article, and especially the video it links to, is extremely unpleasant, dealing with an example of disability hate crime ( Read more... )

What do you think or feel about this? I was alarmed by the headline, thinking of that old stereotype, 'Mentally ill people are dangerous!' But the Mental Health Foundation reminds us how many prisoners are mentally ill, and Rethink Mental Illness likes the look of this pilot scheme. "We welcome this initiative, which has the potential to stop ( Read more... )

Bijan Ebrahimi was an innocent, peaceful man. He was also a disabled man. Neighbours murdered him after false accusations of paedophilia. Here's an article about this crime and others like itThat news report is by Katherine Quarmby. She contibuted to this Equality and Human Rights Commission report (published 2011) about crime against disabled ( Read more... )

No doubt I'm not the only person to have noticed that the spree killer who murdered dozens in an American school, a few days ago, is being described as a 'loner' and a 'Goth', an 'intelligent' boy who 'nobody really knew'. No doubt I'm not the only person to have wondered whether that lad were autistic. Stereotype rears its head ( Read more... )

A TV host on the MSNBC network, Joe Scarborough, says that the man who perpetrated the mass shooting at the movie premiere in Colorado was "on the autism scale" because he was a loner and separated from society. He says that he has a son with Asperger's, and he believes that people with Asperger's and autism who don't have nice, supportive families ( Read more... )

I like crime dramas. Recently I've been enjoying Criminal Minds a lot, watching it as it's aired here in Britain, meaning that we see it some months later than Americans do. There are a few episodes in Season 6 that I particularly like for their portrayals of disability. One is Episode 15, Today I Do.

( Cut for spoilers )