Signal boost: dark_agenda
Sun, Aug. 12th, 2012 10:17 pmCelebrating characters of color with disabilities for the kaleidoscope challenge! A list of suggested characters is provided in the post.
Signal Boost: Call for Entries: Eyresses: A Jane Eyre Zine
Wed, Feb. 9th, 2011 10:25 amThere's a call for for submissions to a Jane Eyre zine, and the organiser is particularly interested in disability-centric readings of the text. (The call mentions Bertha specifically but there's more to mine.) Information about how to submit at the link, and I definitely encourage you to do so whether you're an Eyre-hater or -lover!
Disability Friending Meme
Fri, Apr. 30th, 2010 06:22 pmSignal Boost: United Airlines Fail
Mon, Apr. 12th, 2010 03:27 pmThanks to
kate, who posted about this earlier today.
evilpuppy posted about an awful experience flying United Airlines. She is a young disabled woman who was treated horribly by every United Airlines representative she encountered on her trip and after, when she tried to file complaints about the poor service.
twistedchick has also written about this incident, and further assembled a set of relevant links with contact information for various agencies, should you wish to learn more or write a letter of complaint.
ETA:
cleolinda also has a post with updates on United's response to the situation.
ETA:
signal boost: Improving Comment Browsing on DW
Sun, Feb. 7th, 2010 09:58 amOver on the
dw_accessibility community, I proposed a way to make it easier to follow who's talking with whom on long comment threads.
Particularly if you use a smaller screen (netbook, phone), large print, audio or braille to read your Dreamwidth circle, I'd love your sampling the discussion and contributing your thoughts.
Particularly if you use a smaller screen (netbook, phone), large print, audio or braille to read your Dreamwidth circle, I'd love your sampling the discussion and contributing your thoughts.