Relay | Official Trailer Bleecker Street - July 2, 2025 Wait, what? A mystery/suspense movie where a key plot element is a TDD Relay Service? What do we think about this? * Does the film demonstrate how knowledge of at least some aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act are truly
Hello! It seems like we're all still trying to get a grip on everything that's extra bad or difficult for disabled people these days. These links might help put some of it in some sort of order so we stand a chance of dealing with it
Good afternoon! I've spent most of the last couple of days managing repairs and redecorations in my apartment. I hired someone to do the physical work, which made me nervous but worked out well. It's the first major revamp of my "space" since I
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Two years! Two years ago today, I posted the first issue of my new disability-themed newsletter, Disability Thinking Weekday. I started out with a few legacy subscribers from my first attempts at a newsletter. As of today, there are over 1,300 subscribers, including 38 who help sustain this project
Belated happy anniversary! Last Saturday was the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. So I'm again playing a little catch-up on articles written about it. These three should do. If other interesting takes crop up in the next week or so, I'll share them
Good afternoon ... Today's links are left over from last week. So they aren't necessarily timely. But hopefully they are interesting. This newsletter isn't just about urgent and enraging headlines. The State of Disabled LGBTQI+ People in 2024 Mia Ives-Rublee, Casey Doherty, Haley Norris, Center
Good afternoon! During this newsletter's short, unplanned absence last week, President Trump ordered an initiative to increase forced institutionalization of mentally ill and addicted people. There are still more journalistic articles and organization statements coming out about this. But here are three pieces that provide something of an
Sorry about missing the last two days. My life got oddly busy in ways I wasn't expecting. Things are a little more relaxed again, so here's a video for this Friday, suggested by a subscriber ... Long Road Home Vimeo - April 9, 2024 Shared by paid
Good afternoon ... Today's theme seems to be disability issues that have to be re-explained and re-litigated over and over, every few years. Each time, it is surprising and dispiriting that it seems like there is virtually no carry-over progress from the previous time. We have to make the
Good morning! I hope everyone has a good week. Here are three disability links to get us started ... Subscribe or Upgrade NCIL Annual Conference - Level Up: Building Tomorrow Together - Updates National Council on Independent Living - July 21, 2025 "NCIL’s 2025 conference theme, Level Up: Building
I looked back and found that I haven't posted any video here about the 2020 Netflix documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution before. The film is almost five years old now. But it's still probably the best introduction to the modern disability rights movement for a