It's Disability Monday around these parts

[haddayr]

First, an interesting Invisible Backpack of Able-Bodied Privilege

Comments

[one_undone]

Number 15 is currently annoying me very badly. Recently moving to a suburb from the metropolitan area has been a big change for me, and probably feels more extreme because I used to be on a bus route just steps from my front door, and the street was a snow emergency route that was kept well plowed in winter. There were also well-plowed sidewalks and alleyways all around my house. Here I am blocks from the bus stop so I cannot get there in winter. There is a sidewalk on only one side of the main street and NO sidewalks whatsoever on any of our side streets, and the streets in our subdivision are only wimpily pseudo-plowed when the city has nothing better to do, thus leaving a thick layer of ice to form on the streets so that driving sucks and I can no longer get around at all using my walker or wheelchair. It's very unlovely. I am frustrated to realize that I will be essentially trapped in my home until spring thaw. >:o(

Lives Worth Living sounds messy and disappointing when it should instead be uplifting and validating. I hadn't heard about it before now. If I watch it, I expect to come away bummed out and pissed off, so I'll decide just before it airs whether or not I should see it. Depends on how much I loathe the world that day. :o/

[haddayr]

I'm sorry Number 15 is kicking your ass! It's pretty bad in the city right now, too. I hope when you get a power chair things will change -- most of the power chair users I know use them right on the street and get around that way. Not the most safe way ever, but at least they are not trapped.

I have to say, if you haven't seen anything about the disability rights movement, you will probably be heartened by this video. It's good to see people like us out there agitating, and it's good to see what progress has been made. And the interviews really are good.