Anyone else have problems when they get their blood drawn? I have to go into get blood drawn often because of medicines and my disease. I ALWAYS have problems. I usually end up looking like a pin cushion with a zillion bruises every other week. I just saw this and I hope this works its way to other places. Read more... )

Are you interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths? If you study, teach or work in STEM you might like STEM-DC. I'm looking at that, thanks to our own barakta.( Read more... )

Here’s my contribution to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2014.

How ablism stopped me learning how to teach against ablismI started training to be a teacher. After a few weeks, I quit the course because of ablism (or disablism - they seem to mean the same thing ( Read more... )

A few months ago we talked on this comm about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Today, I'm thinking that webinars could be another crip-friendly way to learn and teach. In fact I think the teacher-training course I quit, because it wasn't accessible, could have been taught better by using webinars. In another context, the only webinar I tried to ( Read more... )

Tech-savvy people will understand this better than I do ( Read more... )