Saturday Slumgullion #14

• A story about a disabled woman and her nurse who stuck together through Katrina and the many evacuations and relocations and complications that ensued.

• A Wal-Mart in Albany, NY, kicks service do out of store.

• A two-part newspaper feature on a transgender woman repeatedly refers to her suffering from gender dysphoria and the complex emotional and mental difficulties involved in transitioning.

• Over a year after Katrina, FEMA is reaching out to disabled evacuees to let them know they now have accessible trailers available to live in.

• The U.S. Supreme Court to consider again the Texax death penalty case of LaRoyce Lathair Smith, whose learning disability was not given to the jury as information to consider when he was sentenced.

• The remains of at least 51 people suspected to be victims of the Nazi T4 program to murder disabled persons have been found in Menden, Germany. About half were infants and children.

• A report on the victims of the Pakastani earthquake last October and how paralysis has chnged their lives:

Embarrassment is the least of 18-year-old Rozina Rehman's problems after her back was broken a year ago in the earthquake that killed 75,000 people and scarred the minds and bodies of many, many more.

The first anniversary of the quake is on Sunday, but the young woman remains too self-conscious to go back to school in a wheelchair, so she stays home with her parents.

"I am scared what people will say. I can't get out of this wheelchair now for life," says Rozina, who was dug out from the rubble of her home in Balakot, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, one of the towns hit hardest by the disaster.

• Redefining autism as an ability and "gift" rather than a disability.

• As Murderball opens in Japanese theaters, Mark Zupan is featured in a news story there.