Join us next Sunday, March 31st at 4pm PST for our monthly open thread on disability. I will have some new info on the pain controversy, some studies, some shifts in policy. Meanwhile today I have a bit of upbeat news:
https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2019/03/people-with-disabilities-particularly-kids-are-seeing-themselves-in-more-books.html
People with disabilities, particularly kids, are seeing themselves in more books
People want to see themselves in books. For people with disabilities, the search to see themselves in the pages has been long and is not always fruitful.
“There aren’t a lot of stories by, about and for differently abled people,” said Domi Shoemaker, a writer who manages the Corporeal Writing center, a space in downtown Portland for writers, classes and workshops. Owned by writer Lidia Yuknavitch, it is fully accessible for people who use mobility devices, like Shoemaker.
...Green Bean Books, a children’s bookstore in Northeast Portland, has a disability section. Bookseller Earl Dizon said, “Everyone wants to belong somewhere and just be accepted for who they are.” Books, in other words, can be a powerful mirror.
What books, movies, tv shows have you seen where a disabled person is presented as a person first, rather than a symbol of their disability?
And if you didn’t see the post in the comments last week, this technique is a step forward, though as someone noted in the video, it would be better if Ikea also had help for assembling their stuff. ;-)
Ikea is making furniture better for people with disabilities — with the help of 3D printers
Ikea’s branch in Israel partnered with disability rights groups to design add-ons for some of their most popular products.
And lastly — some of you have probably seen these already, but it’s more evidence that the culture of inclusivity is progressing:
www.usatoday.com/…
New emoji represent people with disabilities
A person with a white cane, an individual sitting in a motorized wheelchair, a prosthetic arm, someone signing the word "deaf."
These are among the 13 variants of emoji to represent people with disabilities that were proposed last March by Apple to the global organization that adopts standards for emoji. And now that organization, the Unicode Consortium, has added these accessibility themed characters to the list of forthcoming emoji.
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