Disability Blog Carnival #13 at Ballastexistenz

Yeah, I may be posting this a little early. But I expect the carnival will be up at Amanda Bagg's blog Ballastexistenz sometime today and I'm excited to see it. The theme is "What Box?" and I already know Trinity and Steve Kuusisto have written great posts on that theme.

At left is my attempt at a carnival logo that isn't about physical impairments, and shows that the carnival is inclusive of cognitive, developmental and psychological issues. I hope it works for all, or that someone can produce something better.

While Goldfish's Blogging Against Disablism Day is May 1, I'm hosting the next carnival right here on Thursday, May 10. Submission deadline will be midnight on the Monday before. The theme is "Firsts" and I want that to be interpreted as widely and variedly as possible. I want to encourage nondisabled bloggers and those that feel they don't qualify to be part of the disability community to participate as allies. I'll answer any questions about the theme, but it's just a jumping off point. Oh, and if you find a great post of someone else's that should be in the carnival nominate it too.

Update: I forgot to include a visual description of the logo above, and there's been some curiosity as to what the brain diagram words say in the logo, which I briefly explained at David's blog:

I got the image by Googling "brain diagram" under the Images search option and currently it can be found on the second page of that search. The URL for the image is: www.miniscience.com/projects/ModelBrain/Brain_diagram_1.jpg

.... Basically, the diagram sections off the frontal, prefrontal, parietal, etc. areas of the brain in seven bright colors and labels them "frontal", "prefrontal", "parietal", etc.

And a more thorough visual description:

It's a line drawing of a human brain from the left side, with the sections of the brain shown in different bright colors. The prefrontal area is labeled "prefrontal area" and is the forehead area in purple. The inner most part of that region is labeled "Broca's area (in left hemisphere)". Above that, the front top "frontal area" region of the head is bright blue and an interior part of that is labeled "frontal eye field". A sort of vertical slice at the top of the head down into the center of the brain is shaded a brighter blue, and a bright red just behind that. These two sections are labeled "sensorimotor area". The top back of the head is colored a dark pink and labeled "parietal lobe". The back area is colored orange and has the labels "visual area" and, more specifically, "visual association". The lower portion of this orange section is on or behind the brain stem and is drawn with a texture change. The brain stem itself and the deep interior region of the brain is colored yellow and the part above the stem bears the labels "temporal lobe", "auditory", and "auditory association (including Wernicke's area, in left hemisphere)".

The logo as a whole: The brain is in the center on a white background with the words "Disability Blog" above the brain, and "Carnival" just below in bold black.

Also, this was a logo I created for the Disability Blog Carnival, and it's the fifth such logo. The others, some created by Penny, are here, here, here, and here. Anyone can use any one of these or create a new one for a blog entry or sidebar link to the carnivals.