Saturday Slumgullion #15

• Joseph Rainmound writes "This Democrat's Deaf" on DailyKos about changing definitions for disabled and deaf. It's more than that though, go read.


• Arrests of dozens of Gallaudet students, professors and alumni on Friday are only the latest event in the long-simmering battle at Washington, D.C.'s university for the deaf. Joseph Rainmound at DKos again, this time with a linkfest of inside opinions on the situation.


• The 7th Ouch! podcast was slated to be the last, but apparently listener protest has saved it -- so have a listen to the silly Brits. And if you haven't heard the less goofy but still informative American DisabilityNation podcast #10, the latest one features an interview with Not Dead Yet's Diane Coleman.


• Damon at Do Your Worst! thinks efforts to get mainstream TV to run a crip-savvy disability show are pointless when "mainstream" is being fragmented and undermined by technology that gives us YouTube and whatever minority groups make the effort to put out there themselves.


• Candy Harrington at Barrier Free Travels shares the thoughts of Mr. Upright-Uptight on access accommodations, though she calls him Mr. Pea Brain.


• NormEmma at YouTube offer a music video about the Euthanasia Blues -- a disability rights perspective on legalized euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Via No Pity


• LoudGirl at The Phat Girl Speaks thinks about Rosa Parks on the bus and her own recent experience on London public transit, which while unlikely to go down in history, nevertheless has much in common with what led Parks to take her stand.


• Crutch! This is the one link in this list to visit if you have limited time -- Bint Alshamsa of My Private Casbah has Bill Shannon's amazing four-minute YouTube video and her commentary of what the man is all about.


• The Guardian reports on a new disabled and documentary version of The Full Monty called The Crippendales.


• "Disable children can be our scientists" notes a reverend in Sierra Leone.


• After 30 years of institutionalization, Chip Hill is moving to a group home near his family in Chattanooga.


• As a nod to Disability Awareness Month (yes, October), Kathi Wolfe writes for the Washington Blade about cripness and queerness all in one.


• "Running with honor" in the Washington Post presents a nondisabled woman's thoughts on participating in the Army Ten-Miler run with many young veterans wearing prosthetic legs and recent war widows.