Another thought on "Inspiration Porn" ... 99% of the time, I don't like sentimentality.* "Inspiration Porn" relies...

Large percentages of popular songs are about being a woman or being African-American. There are also some sub-genres of folk music from spec...

I read a post yesterday by one of my Facebook friends, who used the term "Inspiration Porn". She was referring, I believe, to piec...

If you had to sum up the totality of the disability experience, for yourself and the disability community as a whole, in one word, what word...

There is a line, and a few variations on the line, that crops up throughout comedian Tig Notaro's "Tig Notaro: Live" recordi...

As a person with physical disabilities, I am more physically vulnerable than most people, yet it's never seriously occurred to me to o...

Oscar Pistorius tells court how he shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp Alex Perry, Time Magazine I am tempted to believe Pistorius' story...

John Hodgman (a.k.a. Judge John Hodgman ) posted this photo and caption on Twitter and Tumbr : "This is pretty good advice ev...

How many of us who have disabilities actually feel any personal stake in celebrities who also have disabilities? Do you care about Oscar Pis...

Is the developing Oscar Pistorius murder trial story in any way a "disability" story? Yes, because the reason we even know his n...

This is a test of my new disability-themed blog. I plan to post on a more or less daily basis, with thoughts and questions about disability...