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selkiechick ([personal profile] selkiechick) wrote in [community profile] access_fandom2013-11-19 11:41 am
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Disability Advocacy messages

So my local con, Arisia, is having a Ribbon Game this year, a contest to see who can collect the most ribbons on their badges.

To this end, they are encouraging staff members to make their own ribbons to hand out. So I thought that perhaps I could come up with a good disability advocacy message to offer fans who want to be advocates. Last year my little pins with the icon for sign language, handed out to anyone who could sign, and wanted one, went over pretty well.

But I cannot, for the life of me think of a good message.

I thought about "Not all disabilities are visible" but that is well over the 28 character limit.

Suggestions, ideas? Is this a terrible idea?
jesse_the_k: Elderly smiling white woman captioned "When I was your age I had to walk ten miles in the snow to get stoned & have sex" (old fogey)

[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2013-11-19 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
OTOH, I love #a11y as a message, and it's gonna be displayed on the person of a fan willing to explain it...

(And I adored discovering a11y when I was 54, so there.)
Edited 2013-11-19 18:41 (UTC)

(Anonymous) 2013-11-19 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Age is a state of mind, not a number!