So, this can actually be about accessibility. If you don’t have a lot of mobility and/or strength in your hands prepared fruit and vegetables can allow you to actually eat fruit and vegetables. This is an important option for people who need it. Let’s not be mean about it.

We claim to despise them like everyone else, but when we’re alone in the car and they come on we sing along...

Yeah. There’s been a lot of hard feelings in the disability activism community about this film. For pretty obvious reasons - disabled character played by non-disabled actor and the disabled character is a monster. Between this and Me Without You, its the year of movies relying on terrible disability narratives.

This is devastating. And...all of us in North America shouldn’t pretend this kind of violent ableism doesn’t happen here (up here in Canada the police in Ontario just killed a disabled Somali man and are still trying to pretend like they’re not racist or ableist). If you’re upset, take some time for the puppies…

I stopped watching after the episode where he’s lamenting that he can’t be a dancer, and then has a dream sequence where he dances in the wheelchair and then gets out of it. They cast a former member of Axis Dance, one of the best integrated dance companies in the world to do the complex wheelchair dance portion. It…

I appreciate this article and your defence of your brother. And...I find it disheartening that you seem stuck in the tragedy of both physical and mental difference. The people have pointed out the issues with you using the phrase ‘confined to a wheelchair’. I’d add that the folks I work and hang out with who do not…

Oh, I agree handicapable is ridiculous with an edge of condescending. But often we don’t get to name the things that oppress us. I’d much rather change the contemporary meaning of the word, which would mean that the narrative has shifted, than try to find a new one. Or have some fun with reclaiming past slurs (I…

I think the problem is that you think disability is something negative. What if you viewed all ‘disability’ the way you view PTSD? As something adaptive, ingenious, or just plain old human variation? What is and isn’t disability is pretty arbitrary. Homosexuality was defined as a psychiatric illness for a long time,…

I’m not a member of the Deaf community (language short-hand: Deaf = ASL or other sign-language user; deaf generally refers to someone with hearing impairment who doesn’t regularly sign and hard of hearing refers to folks who have a wide variety of hearing impairment), so anyone who is in the community please correct…

re: ‘cripface’... I’m not a fan of the term (I prefer ‘cripping it up’), but as someone who works in disability and crip performance (‘crip’ is being reclaimed by many folks as an identification or to indicate something has a particularly political edge) many of the arguments behind the term are similar to the…