Slumgullion #42
A hodgepodge of links from my email files:
Kenny Fries writes "Running outside of his lane" on Oscar Pistorius in the Washington Post. Also a Post poll on whether Pistorius should be allowed to compete in the Olympics.
The Denver Post on comedian Josh Blue, an article that shows how to cover the lives of disabled folks and discuss their impairments without resorting to inspirational or supercrip themes. (Bonus points if you can pick out the sentence that bothered me, though.)
Commentary in the Toronto Star: "Chance to stop crippling kids" by Helen Henderson on language and disability.
"Braille literacy flags, even as technology makes it more urgent" in The Christian Science Monitor
Kathi Wolfe writes "Get proud by practicing: The ADA's anniversary is Independence Day for 'queer crips' " at the Washington Blade.
"No indictment in Katrina hospital deaths," the Associated Press report.
"Roger's Battle," coverage of Roger Green's fight against the state of Georgia's practice to send disabled children using ventilators to out-of-state nursing homes when they reach the age of 21.
"With a defendant afraid of heights, stairwells and elevators, court goes alfresco" in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel covers an example of apparently well-mannered and businesslike acceptance of ADA accommodations needed by a woman coming to court.
At The Bygone Bureau, an article by Kevin Nguyen on an accessible sailing program in Boston.
Laura Hershey on "The Dilemma for Disabled Authors" at BeyondChron reviews three books about disability: Anne Finger's Elegy for a Disease, Stephen Kuusisto's Eavesdropping and Georgina Kleege's Blind Rage. (I discussed Kleege's book a while back, here.)
4 comments:
Is this the sentence? (two sentences)
There's one thing people immediately notice about the 28-year-old Blue, and that is his cerebral palsy. It causes his right arm to curl unnaturally and his speech to slightly slur.
Or is it that they implied that life in Minnesota could be a wee bit rough? ;)
Wow, but you're quick. Yep. Actually, it's just the word "unnatural" I have a problem with. Cerebral palsy is common and so are the effects of it, like a curled arm. The curled arm may be considered an impairment or atypical, though Blue seems a very athletic man, but it's not "unnatural." And it certainly isn't remotely unnatural for Blue since he was born with CP. That's just inaccurate.
I like that piece generally though.
I saw Anne Finger read last fall--very good.
Thank you for the Laura Hershey link. This was news to me and I don't think Steve knows about it yet. He'll be pleased I'm sure.
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