I'll get to you somehow...

Women with disabilities and healthcare - a discussion (cross-posted)

Fri, 02 May 2008 00:29:24 GMT

In May, GimpGirl Community (AKA gimpgirl ) will be talking about women with disabilities and healthcare. We'd also like to open the topic to others outside our group.

What are your experiences with healthcare as a woman with a disability? Tell your story, or learn from others. Share resources, opinions, myths, and facts.

Healthcare for women with disabilities varies greatly from place to place, and culture to culture. Most agree that women with disabilities are still greatly underserved. And our needs are as complex as we are, varying by age, disability, and access to healthcare, among other things.

We want to talk about the issues surrounding women with disabilities and healthcare. During the month, we'll also have a chance to make our opinions known to people in the medical profession (based in the U.S.), and those who are studying to become medical professionals. We can give them a head start to understanding the needs and barriers faced by women with disabilities when it comes to receiving respectful and appropriate healthcare.

Feel free to share your thoughts in this forum, or any of our communities online (see GimpGirl Communities for a list of where you can interact).

We'll be having our first online support meeting of the month on Friday, May 2 (see our website calendar or this post for details). Join us and start the conversation, which will undoubtedly lead to many other topics along the way.

Here are a few links which may be useful, or worth discussing. Feel free to suggest others (particularly with info about issues outside of the U.S.):

Medical Care Often Inaccessible to Disabled Patients (NPR Morning Edition, September 13, 2007)
Women with Disabilities: What You Should Know About Preventive Health Care (New York State Department of Health)
Access to Health Care (from womenshealth.gov)
Women First: Breast Health for Women with Developmental Disabilities Handbook (Developed by the Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND))
Women with Disabilities: Health, Reproduction, and Sexuality (by Laura Hershey)

GimpGirl Presentation @ Dreams Fair on Second Life

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:32:21 GMT

GimpGirl Presentation
Originally uploaded by complicitytheory.

Here is a picture of me, in front of our giant TV screen, as jennylin and I talk about gimpgirl (AKA GimpGirl Community), at the Third Annual Dreams Community Fair in Second Life.

"The Third Annual Dreams Community Fair highlights health/support, educational, and artistic groups in SL. There are over 60 informational booths and close to 80 events scheduled by those groups and others."

More photos in the GimpGirl Community Flickr group.

In solidarity

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:22:10 GMT

With my Canadian friends (slightly NSFW)...

I love you all.

Online Avatar & Identity Presentation (3/30)

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:04:34 GMT

f you're interested in Second Life, IRC, and/or issues of identity (with and without disability), you are invited to an online seminar I am co-hosting (with jennylin, but not presenting) entitled:

"Avatars, Identity, and the Expression of Disability" on Sunday, March 30th from 12:00 - 1:30 PM SLT/Pacific Time (3:00 PM Eastern Time)

"LOL"

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:50:48 GMT

The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks

(via Catspaw)

I need to be like this guy

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:33:40 GMT

Man Uses Wheelchair To Shovel Out

You'd think this is an accessory that would be semi-available by now, but it isn't. Anyone want to help me turn into a snowplow? I'm only half joking... when it snows in any significant amount, I'm messed up for a week or more (along with plenty of other PWDs) because snow gets piled at curbs and bus stops, making it hard to get anywhere.

The article is old and the video link is dead, but he has the video on his website. Here someone else on YouTube also using a motorized chair as a plow.

As posted to gimpgirl: Topic of the month: What does GimpGirl mean to you?

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:48:43 GMT

As posted to gimpgirl and no_pity (in edited form):

GimpGirl celebrates its 10th Anniversary!

Started in February 1998, the GimpGirl Community has been a long-time resource for women with disabilities. We are currently gearing up to re-launch our new website, which has been on a bit of a hiatus. We're also becoming active on Facebook, as well as MySpace and the virtual community of Second Life. (See our website for more details, including how to get to our Second Life Open House, happening TODAY at 4:00 PM SLT/Pacific)

Our awesome LiveJournal community has been our mainstay for a long time, and we'd like to hear your thoughts as we move into our next decade...

TOPIC OF THE MONTH: What does being a "gimp girl" (AKA woman with a disability) mean to you?

For as long as the GimpGirl Community has been around, and long before that, people with disabilities, and especially women, have thought, written and talked about their identities -- how having a disability and identifying as a woman shapes (or doesn't shape) their lives.

What does it mean to be a GimpGirl for you? GimpGirl is a phrase used by our community, and of course it's not one that everyone uses. If you prefer a different phrase, what is it, and why?

EDIT: Look under the cut to find out more about today's excellent GimpGirl open house event on Second Life!

This photo was taken at the GimpGirl Open House event online on Second Life, 2/17/08.

(Photo by Aleja Asturias, AKA superaleja AKA me, aleja! See more pictures at the GimpGirl Flickr group.)

Not pictured: Dancing on the beach!

Our open house began at 4:00 PM SLT/Pacific Time at our new Second Life location (link takes you directly there if you use SL), though some people showed up a bit earlier. Some stayed for just a few minutes, others for 2 hours or more. In fact, this photo was taken just before jennylin and I logged off, and the party was still going strong... at least a dozen people attended at various points.

Topics discussed included our topic of the month (as posted above), identity, accessibility and acceptance in Second Life and virtual words, perceptions about people with disabilities in the "non-disabled" world, visible and invisible disabilities, wheelchairs, language, clothes, partners... and other things I'm sure I don't remember. We'll be working to build our SL branch to make it into a place to be, with discussions, classes, events, and other Second Life offerings tailored to fit the mission of our group.

If you're on SL, drop in sometime! If not, that's okay too, there are plenty of places for us to connect!

If accessibility issues are what keep you from logging on, let's talk about it! Access to Second Life for people with disabilities (especially for people who are blind and visually impaired) is an issue that is being examined from several directions, by various people and groups.

Carol Burnett, Julie Andrews, Groucho Marx

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:00:26 GMT

I was looking at random journals, thanks to the no-doubt soon to be controversial new Explore LJ feature, and stumbled across oldhollywood. As with many communities, not every post is great, or even good. But folks have linked to some nifty things, like:

Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews at Carnegie Hall (1962)

and

Groucho Marx in a scene from "Monkey Business"

I could watch this kind of stuff all day... which doesn't really mean anything, because both are very different kinds of performances, with the common thread being "made well before I was born". Which includes just a few years of television and media, you know?

Don't you cry no mooooore.....

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:01:52 GMT

Please watch the following video from Japan (via lilituc):

You're welcome.

Wi-Fi in the dark

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:27:04 GMT

Wi-Fi in the dark
Originally uploaded by superaleja.

Apparently I've become one of those people who seeks approval by submitting photos to groups on Flickr.

Well, only one group (so far, the Diabolic Lovers of Low Res and Booze). And only my "low-res" (camerphone) photos. My "real" photos, from the real camera, are not yet fit for judgment, even from a fairly easygoing group like the DBOLRLers (who only do low-res anyway).

They liked this photo I took on the bus, at night from San Jose to Santa Cruz, but they voted out my Big M at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Who knows how my next submission will fare...

The Library of Congress put over 3100 pictures on Flickr

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:08:56 GMT

The Library of Congress put over 3100 pictures on Flickr:

Library of Congress staff often make digital versions of our popular image collections available online as quickly as possible by relying primarily on the identifying information that came with the original photos. That text can be incomplete and is even inaccurate at times. We welcome your contribution of names, descriptions, locations, tags, and also your general reactions.

It's divided into two different sets:

1930s-40s in Color:

These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944.

News events in the 1910s:

Welcome to the daily news scene from almost a hundred years ago, as photographed by the Bain News Service in about 1910-1912. We invite your tags and comments! Also, lots more identification information. (Most of these old photos came to the Library of Congress with very little description.)

This selected set of 1,500 photographs is from a large collection of almost 40,000 glass negatives. The entire collection spans 1900-1920 and richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, and political activities, with a special emphasis on life in New York City.

Facebook says...

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:30:06 GMT

You have a How are you disabled invitation.

__________________ sent an invitation using How are you disabled?:
______________ wants to share the "How are you disabled?" quiz with you. How disabled are you?

Um... no.

I'm for the disability experience being a part of social networking, but that just rubs me the wrong way.

Should it?

Ready to Flock

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:54:24 GMT

So gomer43, my lovely adopter-of-all-things-geeky friend.. has convinced me to try using Flock as my browser. Flock integrates all the social networking sites and feeds that everyone is hip to at the moment -- Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, del.icio.us, etc. And even this here LiveJournal, to which I am posting through the Flock interface. It's not fully integrated, but not that bad either...

Since I actually have accounts on many of the sites and services it works with, good internets sheep that I am, and at least 100 sites I read via RSS, I figured I might as well give it a try. It feels a little like overload at the moment, but the truth is that I usually have a ridiculous number of tabs open in Firefox, plus an extra application or 2, to keep up with those things anyway. Everything in one place can't be that bad an idea, at least in principle.

Anyone else managing their information overload with Flock, or another all-encompassing method?

Blogged with Flock

Peace of Heart Choir - Winter 2007 Celebration Fundraising Concert (12/16/07)

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:52:51 GMT

Want to come hear me sing? Great group, great cause, and.... me!! Check us out, and feel free to spread the word even if you can't attend. Donations/volunteers always welcome!

Sunday
December 16, 2007
2:30 – 4:30 PM

Hunter College, North Building,
Room 424
Entrance on East 69th St., near Lexington Ave.
New York City

The Peace of Heart Choir formed in response to the tragedies of 9/11 and performs multiple free concerts for NYC non-profits, shelters, service providers, hospitals, and events, as part of our mission of providing healing, diversity, community building and mutual understanding through music.

You are cordially invited to our Winter 2007 Celebration Fundraising Concert

ROCKIN' IN THE NEW!

Proceeds enable us to continue giving multiple free performances
for non-profits, shelters, hospitals, service providers and cultural events.

Performing our Winter 2007 a cappella repertoire from the following traditions:

*Holiday Songs from Latin American, Caribbean
& African Traditions*
*Hebrew & Ladino*
*American Pop & Soul*
*Original Compositions*

And featuring:
The POHC Bake Sale and POHC Souvenir Merchandise!

Tickets:
$18 in Advance; ($19 online)
$20 at the Door

General seating; wheelchair access

For advance sale tickets:
email: peaceofheartchoir@yahoo.com;
or call: 212-252-3191

Next at the disTHIS! Film Series -- Wednesday December 5th!

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:46:55 GMT

Next at the disTHIS! Film Series -- Wednesday December 5th!

The Keys To The House (Le Chiavi di Casa)

Favoring subtlety over cheap sentimentality, Italian director Gianni Amelio tackles difficult material with a sublime touch, and offers a powerful cinematic treatise on mental illness, physical disability and child abandonment in the award-winning, THE KEYS TO THE HOUSE.

Gianni (Kim Rossi Stuart) plays a father who abandoned his mentally and physically disabled son, Paolo (Andrea Rossi), at birth. Paolo’s mother died during childbirth, so an aunt and uncle raised him. Fifteen years later, a guilt-stricken Gianni gets back in touch with the son he’s never met, offering to accompany him on a medical tip to specialist clinic for disabled children in Berlin. Paolo cautiously agrees, but the reunion is anything but easy. At the clinic, Gianni meets the mother of another disabled child and the interaction between the parents and children provides a thought provoking, thoroughly unsentimental dissection of the effects of disability on every member of the family.

KEYS TO THE HOUSE triumphs in many ways, not the least of which by giving rarely afforded screen time to two real disabled actors. Andrea Rossi is the disabled actor who plays Paolo. The other child also has c.p. and is played by the protagonist of the book on which the film is based, Born Twice by Giuseppe Pontiggia.

Throughout the film, director Amelio handles potentially touchy subject matter with rare dignity and respect, emotionally honest but never condescending, and ultimately offers a cogent statement that lingers long after the final credits roll.

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote:

"Takes a story that could be turned into the most florid kind of tear-jerker and ... tells it with an exactness and restraint that makes it powerfully effective."

Tom Dawson of the BBC reported:
"Intelligently steers clear of lachrymose speeches, swelling orchestral music, and cheap redemption."

V.A. Musetto of the NY Post concluded:
"Deals with the sensitive subject in a mature manner, refusing to descend into Hollywood-style schmaltz."

Awards & Recognitions
-- Best Foreign Film, Turia Awards (2006)
-- Best Director, Italian Nat’l Syndicate of Film Journalists (2005)
-- Best Film in 2 categories, Venice Film Awards (2004)

Keys To The House (Le Chiavi di Casa)
Italy, 2004
Running Time: 1:11
Language: Native Italian with English Subtitles
Director: Gianni Amelio

When: Wednesday, December 5th
Where: DCTV, 3rd Floor Screening Room. 87 Lafayette Street (By Subway: 6, N, R, Q, W, J, M, Z to Canal Street; go two blocks south) between Walker & White.
Time: 6:30 to 10:00 pm. Screening starts @ 7pm

Suggested Donation: $5

disTHIS! movies, talkback sessions and related events are open to the public. $5 suggested donation. This film is presented in native Italian with English subtitles. ASL interpretation available upon request. Space is wheelchair accessible. Snacks are provided and there is a cash bar for drinks, but space is limited to the first 65 people! Recent articles in the Tribeca Trib, New York Nonprofit Press and the NY Times -- and YOUR support -- have filled screenings to capacity. DON’T MISS OUT! Call 212.251.4092 to reserve YOUR seat or email: disthis@dnnyc.net

The disTHIS! Film Series, a project of the Disabilities Network of NYC in association with DCTV, is a monthly showcase of festival quality independent and international short, documentary and feature films with disability themes audiences are unlikely to see elsewhere. disTHIS! movies are always provocative; never quite what you’d expect. No handkerchief necessary, no heroism required. This is disability through a whole new lens. disTHIS! is made possible the generous support of The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, members of the Disabilites Network of NYC and our audiences.

For more information and to sign up for regular email updates, please go to:

http://disthis.org

Song of the Day:

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:16:12 GMT

Re: Your Brains, by Jonathan Coulton

Heya Tom, it’s Bob from the office down the hall Good to see you buddy, how’ve you been? Thing have been OK for me except that I’m a zombie now I really wish you’d let us in I think I speak for all of us when I say I understand Why you folks might hesitate to submit to our demand But here’s an FYI: you’re all gonna die screaming All we want to do is eat your brains We’re not unreasonable, I mean, no one’s gonna eat your eyes All we want to do is eat your brains We’re at an impasse here, maybe we should compromise: If you open up the doors We’ll all come inside and eat your brains I don’t want to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan? To spend your whole life locked inside a mall? Maybe that’s OK for now but someday you’ll be out of food and guns And then you’ll have to make the call I’m not surprised to see you haven’t thought it through enough You never had the head for all that bigger picture stuff But Tom, that’s what I do, and I plan on eating you slowly All we want to do is eat your brains We’re not unreasonable, I mean, no one’s gonna eat your eyes All we want to do is eat your brains We’re at an impasse here, maybe we should compromise: If you open up the doors We’ll all come inside and eat your brains I’d like to help you Tom, in any way I can I sure appreciate the way you’re working with me I’m not a monster Tom, well, technically I am I guess I am I’ve got another meeting Tom, maybe we could wrap it up I know we’ll get to common ground somehow Meanwhile I’ll report back to my colleagues who were chewing on the doors I guess we’ll table this for now I’m glad to see you take constructive criticism well Thank you for your time I know we’re all busy as hell And we’ll put this thing to bed When I bash your head open All we want to do is eat your brains We’re not unreasonable, I mean, no one’s gonna eat your eyes All we want to do is eat your brains We’re at an impasse here, maybe we should compromise: If you open up the doors We’ll all come inside and eat your brains

Listen and read more: here, and all about the new French version here.

[cross-posted] EARN Recruiting Jobseekers with Disabilities (U.S.)

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:36:19 GMT

EARN Recruiting Jobseekers with Disabilities
for
Federal Government Careers with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

EARN, a nationwide free service of U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, is here to connect employers with workforce talent and disability employment resources.

Jobs Available In:

        Atlanta, GA               Dallas, TX            Los Angeles, CA
        Baltimore, MD           Houston, TX        New York, NY
        Birmingham, AL           Indianapolis, IN        Phoenix, AZ
        Charlotte, NC               Kansas City, KS        Seattle, WA
        Chicago, IL                     Little Rock, AR        Tampa, FL
*Relocation expenses are not authorized.

List of Jobs Available in Each City:
1) Information Intake Representative
Provide referral and counseling assistance to charging parties and/or their representatives regarding the filing of charges of employment discrimination in compliance with Federal laws and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations and procedures. Assistance is provided in person, by phone, or in writing. Qualifications: High school graduation. Four years of education above high school is fully qualifying; or one year of specialized experience at the GS-4 level (or equivalent) that equipped the candidate with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position.
Experience in a customer service or call center setting helpful, but not required. Must be a U.S. citizen.

2) Information Intake Representative (Bilingual Spanish)
Provide referral and counseling assistance to charging parties and/or their representatives regarding the filing of charges of employment discrimination in compliance with federal laws and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations and procedures. Assistance is provided in person, by phone, or in writing. Qualifications: High school graduation. Four years of education above high school is fully qualifying; or, one year of specialized experience at the GS-4 level (or equivalent) that equipped the candidate with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position.
Spanish fluency required. Experience in a customer service or call center setting helpful, but not required. Must be a U.S. citizen.

3) Lead Information Intake Representative
Provide lead duties and personally perform the full range of information related to referral and counseling assistance for charging parties and/or their representatives regarding the filing of charges of employment discrimination in compliance with federal laws and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations and procedures. Assistance is provided in person, by phone, or in writing.   Qualifications: High school graduation. One year of specialized experience at the GS-5 level (or equivalent) that equipped the candidate with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Experience in a customer service or call center setting helpful, but not required. Must be a U.S. citizen.

4) Lead Information Intake Representative (Bilingual Spanish)
Provide lead duties and personally perform the full range of information related to referral and counseling assistance for charging parties and/or their representatives regarding the filing of charges of employment discrimination in compliance with federal laws and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations and procedures. Assistance is provided in person, by phone, or in writing.   Qualifications: High school graduation. One year of specialized experience at the GS-5 level (or equivalent) that equipped the candidate with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Spanish fluency required. Experience in a customer service or call center setting helpful, but not required. Must be a U.S. citizen.

To Apply: Email resume, proof of schedule A eligibility, the job title and location you are applying for to earn@earnworks.com or 703-448-7545(fax). Applicants must submit proof of Schedule A eligibility such as a letter or documentation from a state vocational rehabilitation agency, a medical professional, or records or letters from a Federal Government agency that issues or provides disability benefits to apply for these positions.

To view full job descriptions and search other jobs posted: jobsource.earnworks.com

EARN Ph:    1-866-327-6669 (v/tty)
Email:    earn@earnworks.com
Website:    www.earnworks.com

Travel and people with disabilities (cross-posted)

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:41:38 GMT

It's a topic I often wonder about. And I know other people are thinking about it as well, given the number of sites, blogs, and other activity that has cropped up online around accessible travel.

Specifically (as a woman in fairly decent health who uses a motorized wheelchair and lives in the U.S.), my interest in travel was rekindled recently when I came across the website of a group called Wilderness Inquiry. Paragraphs like this one caught my eye:

Our trips are integrated, meaning that each group typically includes people who have a disability and those who do not. What brings them together is their interest in doing a wilderness adventure. We do whatever it takes to make our trips accessible, but disability is not the overt focus. We just want to get out there and enjoy the wilderness together.

Actually, if their trips really work that way, it kind of blows my mind. And they even have a financial aid program. So now I am definitely interested in exploring this as a possibility.

I have traveled a bit in the last few years, within the country for less adventurous reasons, and internationally (to the U.K.) on an exchange sponsored by a disability-oriented organization called Mobility International USA. But I don't think I've found a travel situation that seemed just the right mix of adventure and inclusion (and affordability) yet, and I'd like to try.

So I wonder about other people's travel experiences... with either of the groups mentioned, with other groups, or independently. Within your country, or internationally. Or if you haven't traveled, what you'd like to be able to experience...

I know I'm not the only one with an itch to travel.

The Harrow Anthology: Midnight Lullabies

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:33:39 GMT

My friend Jason (complicittheory) is an editor of this anthology published by The Harrow, a literary magazine devoted to publishing original and complete works of fantasy and horror. It is now available on Amazon, and all proceeds go to Doctors without Borders. Check it out!

Midnight Lullabies features 15 poems and 14 stories revolving around the theme of childhood nightmares that continue to haunt into adulthood. Children's book author Tim Wynne-Jones wrote the introduction for us. Like our previous anthology, Fear of the Unknown, (published by Echelon Press), this anthology is illustrated, this time with classic — and creepy! — children's book illustrations kindly donated by The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books.

Amazon.com: Midnight Lullabies; Kfir Luzzatto, Dru Pagliassotti, Tyra Twomey, Jason Nolan and Yuka Kajihara editors.

List Price:$15.99
Paperback: 246 pages
Publisher: The Harrow Press (October 29, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1419679783
ISBN-13: 978-1419679780
Product Dimensions:
8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #95,720 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

LJ Mobile, you say...

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:44:09 GMT

So here's my test of the new LJ mobile client for the Palm platform. So far, way better than trying to navigate the LJ update page on the mobile browser. And better than text LJ. But I'm sure I'll find something to complain about soon.

Hey, private messaging and editable comments are here, too. About time.

Remember to fall back...

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:37:18 GMT

It's been a little confusing this year...

At 2 a.m. on November 4, 2007, groggy Americans will turn their clocks back one hour, marking the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST).

The federal law that established "daylight time" in the United States does not require any area to observe daylight saving time. But if a state chooses to observe DST, it must follow the starting and ending dates set by the law. From 1986 to 2006 this was the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, but starting in 2007, it is observed from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, adding about a month to daylight saving time. (See: New Federal Law.)

Source: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html

Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:18:40 GMT

Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas

Oh, you crazy Onion.

Next @ disTHIS! Dance Inferno - Wednesday, Nov 7th

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:29:56 GMT

When:
Wednesday, November 7
Time:
6:30 to 9pm.
Screening starts promptly at 7pm.
Where:
DCTV @ The Firehouse
3rd Floor Screening Room
87 Lafayette St (between Walker & White)
Closest subway stops: N/Q/R/W, J/M/Z, or 6 to Canal Street. DCTV is located two blocks South of Canal Street in NYC.
VIEW MAP
Cost:
$5 Suggested Donation

Join disTHIS! Wednesday, November 7th as we showcase a series of acclaimed short films that remind us "dis can dance." Culturally speaking, disability is thought to be many things ... tragic to some, heroic by others, inspirational by almost every reporter to ever take up a pen, but do the words celebratory, joyous, funky, sexy or exciting come to mind? In short, has "Gimp Got Groove?" You bet!

Full info: http://disthis.org/November2007.htm

[cross-posted] Music Within - In Theaters October 26 (U.S.)

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:02:09 GMT

Music Within traces the true story of Richard Pimentel, a crusader for human rights who was instrumental in getting the Americans with Disabilities Act passed into law. When he didn’t make a college debate team, Richard (played by Ron Livingston) headed to Vietnam for a tour of duty. There, a bomb blast caused him to lose his hearing. Learning to read lips, Richard returned to college and met and became close friends with Art Honneyman (played by Michael Sheen), an intelligent -- and funny -- man with cerebral palsy. After witnessing how Art was treated in public, and after seeing how difficult it was for his fellow Vietnam Vets to get help with their problems, Pimentel decided to dedicate his life to raising awareness about the needs of people with disabilities.

Official Site (uses Flash, not fully accessible):
http://www.musicwithinmovie.com/

The official site says: Call 800-445-4641 or email jpapier@mgm.com for more information on how to buy block tickets or buy out a screening for your organization, family, and friends.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:10:05 GMT

Listen:

For reference:

I'll get to you somehow...

Women with disabilities and healthcare - a discussion (cross-posted)

GimpGirl Presentation @ Dreams Fair on Second Life

In solidarity

Online Avatar & Identity Presentation (3/30)

"LOL"

I need to be like this guy

As posted to gimpgirl: Topic of the month: What does GimpGirl mean to you?

Carol Burnett, Julie Andrews, Groucho Marx

Don't you cry no mooooore.....

Wi-Fi in the dark

The Library of Congress put over 3100 pictures on Flickr

Facebook says...

You have a How are you disabled invitation.

Ready to Flock

Peace of Heart Choir - Winter 2007 Celebration Fundraising Concert (12/16/07)

Sunday December 16, 2007 2:30 – 4:30 PM

Hunter College, North Building, Room 424 Entrance on East 69th St., near Lexington Ave. New York City

ROCKIN' IN THE NEW!

Next at the disTHIS! Film Series -- Wednesday December 5th!

Song of the Day:

[cross-posted] EARN Recruiting Jobseekers with Disabilities (U.S.)

Travel and people with disabilities (cross-posted)

The Harrow Anthology: Midnight Lullabies

LJ Mobile, you say...

Remember to fall back...

Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas

Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas

Next @ disTHIS! Dance Inferno - Wednesday, Nov 7th

[cross-posted] Music Within - In Theaters October 26 (U.S.)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sunday
December 16, 2007
2:30 – 4:30 PM

Hunter College, North Building,
Room 424
Entrance on East 69th St., near Lexington Ave.
New York City