It has been a little over a year and a half since I started the Disability Thinking blog, and I have accomplished many of the things I set out to do.
I have made 964 posts, this one included, with at least one post pretty much every day.
I have build some sort of regular audience. The blog has over 63,800 total “hits”. That's not a spectacular number, but I am happy with the current rate of around 200 hits per day. Aslo, Disability Thinking has been visited by people from 76 countries, including the United States, with really substantial traffic from Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
I finally started the Disability.TV Podcast, and it is coming along slowly but surely.
It seems like a good time to brainstorm a To-Do List of blog topics I feel I have neglected. For instance:
Faith / Religion and Disability
Assistive Technology
Practical Ideas for Independent Living
Relationships / Sex
I have one more topic in mind that's hard to describe in one line. Basically, it is self-critique … both of my own approach and thinking about disability, and how the disability community as a whole deals with disability. For good reason, disability blogs spend a lot of time explaining and promoting disability-centered approaches to the subject to the wider world. That is important because most people have an entry-level understanding of disability issues, at best. Yet, there are aspects of my own thinking that could use some revision. And there are habits and modes of thinking that are popular in disability culture that I don’t entirely buy into. I hope to deal with this in some way over the coming months. The trick is to do it without undermining support for the disability community, or simply repeating ableist stereotypes.
As always, I welcome comments and suggestions!
I have made 964 posts, this one included, with at least one post pretty much every day.
I have build some sort of regular audience. The blog has over 63,800 total “hits”. That's not a spectacular number, but I am happy with the current rate of around 200 hits per day. Aslo, Disability Thinking has been visited by people from 76 countries, including the United States, with really substantial traffic from Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
I finally started the Disability.TV Podcast, and it is coming along slowly but surely.
It seems like a good time to brainstorm a To-Do List of blog topics I feel I have neglected. For instance:
Faith / Religion and Disability
Assistive Technology
Practical Ideas for Independent Living
Relationships / Sex
I have one more topic in mind that's hard to describe in one line. Basically, it is self-critique … both of my own approach and thinking about disability, and how the disability community as a whole deals with disability. For good reason, disability blogs spend a lot of time explaining and promoting disability-centered approaches to the subject to the wider world. That is important because most people have an entry-level understanding of disability issues, at best. Yet, there are aspects of my own thinking that could use some revision. And there are habits and modes of thinking that are popular in disability culture that I don’t entirely buy into. I hope to deal with this in some way over the coming months. The trick is to do it without undermining support for the disability community, or simply repeating ableist stereotypes.
As always, I welcome comments and suggestions!
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