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Last year on 1st May, with the invaluable help of Lady Bracknell and with the support of many other bloggers, I hosted the first Blogging Against Disablism Day where almost a hundred and fifty people joined together to write about disability and rail against the discrimination that disabled people continue to face. Both disabled and non-disabled people wrote about all manner of subjects, from discrimination in education and employment, through health care, parenting, family life and relationships, as well as the interaction of disablism with other forms of prejudice.
It was a great success, and as early as March this year, folks began to ask about this year's Blogging Against Disablism Day. So here it comes.
I am not very good at rousing calls, so if anyone is in need of one, I shall refer you back to Lady Bracknell's magnificent One in Seven.
How to Participate in Blogging Against Disablism Day
1. Leave a comment below to say you intend to join in. I will then add you to the list of participants on the sidebar of this blog.
2. Spread the word by linking to this site, displaying our banner and/ or telling everyone about it.
3. On Tuesday, May 1st - or as near to as you are able - post something on the subject of Disabilism, Ableism or Disability Discrimination (see Language Amnesty). You can write on any subject, specific or general, personal, social or political, anything which states an objection to the differential treatment of disabled people.
4. Come back to Diary of a Goldfish to let everyone know you've posted and to check out what other people have written.
This year I am also going to ask folks to place their posts in a category (on the day, not in advance) where possible. Last year, Lady Bracknell and myself read every single post on the day and determined which category the link should go under so that the day was archived in a manageable way (as you can see here). That is simply not be doable this year, at least not within any useful timescale after the event.
HTML codes for links and banners
You can copy and paste the following in order to create a link to this post
or you can copy and paste one of the following onto a blog post or sidebar in order to display a banner which links to this post. I'm afraid the banners are my doing, a somewhat rush job and may be subject to some interpretation. If anybody wants to come up with their own design, you are more than welcome.
This is the black and white banner which reads Blogging Against Disablism.
This is the colourful banner which reads Blogging Against Disablism
Edit: You can also have narrower banners, didn't want to clutter this post up too much (ha!) so I put them here.
Accessibility
Everyone is welcome to join in with Blogging Against Disablism day, disabled and non-disabled, as long as you wish to blog against the discrimination that disabled people experience. Last year, I was rather surprised to have questions from people with mental health impairments who wondered whether their experience counted as disability. Of course it does! My one regret was that I initially turned down a person with Body Integrity Identity Disorder (a condition where a person feels the need or desire to acquire a physical impairment, most commonly an amputation or paralysis). As it was, despite my apprehensions, their contribution was entirely in the spirit of Blogging Against Disablism and so they were included in the final list.
If anybody has any access issues, please speak up. I am not an expert in this area. Alternative blogging formats, such a podcasts or video are more than welcome. If you cannot leave a comment on this blog for any reason, please e-mail me (this is temporary e-mail address and will only exist until Blogging Against Disablism is over this year).
Last year the issue was raised that holding this on one day meant that people who were not able to blog that day for various reasons might be left out. This year, I should take the opportunity to emphasise; if you want to do it before hand so that it's done, or if you are late with your post, I am not going to exclude you from the final list. Obviously, it would be good to have as many posts as possible on 1st May, that's the point, but so long as you do it thereabouts, that's fine.
Language Amnesty
The language we use around disability and discrimination varies widely, and talking about language is a very important part of understanding the way that disabled people are perceived by society. Language is a completely legitimate subject for discussion on Blogging Against Disablism day, but I do ask that we allow other people to use the language which they feel most comfortable with. Differences may include the way that disabled people are described; as disabled people, people with disabilities, the disabled, etc.; as well as the very word for the discrimination we experience.
Ableism or Ablism is the term more commonly used in the United States and thus more prevalent on the Internet as a whole. Then there's the simple and perhaps most easily understood term of Disability Discrimination. I am using Disablism because that makes sense to me in the context of my own disability politics; that is to say that I happen to think it is a better term. However, given the breadth and depth of the issues we are facing, I don't wish to argue this too strongly.
If you would prefer to use Ableism or Disability Discrimination, please do so. If there is an interest, I can even create extra banners for this purpose.
Right, is there anything I missed?
Consider me in. And the logo is great, by the way.
ReplyDeleteThank you and congratulations for being the first to sign up! :-)
ReplyDeleteGreat logo, looks very professional. Thank you very much for hosting the Blogging-Against-Disablism-Day once again.
ReplyDeleteI would like to participate and write a contribution.
Me too - thanks for organising this - has it really been a year ?!?
ReplyDeletei like the logo too. Oh, and Sign me up!! I'll advertise it on my blog too. The more the merrier i think!
ReplyDeleteketh
xx
yes, i don't know what came over me being at my computer at so early an hour. Must be this newfound zest for life coming from somewhere :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm in. Naturally.
ReplyDeleteYES!
ReplyDeletePlease count me in.
WCD
I'm in and I'll post about this on my blog later. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHas Lady Bracknell's esteemed friend perhaps omitted to include a list of the categories under which contributors are asked to label their posts...?
ReplyDeleteWhilst regrettably not sufficiently fit to assist with the actual administration of this year's event, Lady Bracknell will most definitely be contributing a post to it.
Lady Bracknell regrets to report that this year's banner is too wide for the sidebar of her blog :-(
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone so far.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't sure whether to give people the catergories now, as it isn't necessary to worry about it until reporting back here on the day - and what I would certainly wish to avoid doing is to make folks feel they had to fit neatly into one of those categories. I was kind of hoping folks would write whatever they liked and then pinpoint the category they felt it most closely fitted...
Apologies for the size of the danner. I shall make a smaller one especially for you! (The wording becomes obscured if it shrinks to your 150 pixel sidebar).
but of course...i'll be there.
ReplyDeleteI have now made some narrower banners for her Ladyship's sidebar (or anyone else's come to that). I have put them here
ReplyDeleteI replied the the "More Banners" post by accident--but count Disability Studies, Temple U. in, and thanks for organizing this again this year.
ReplyDeleteCount me in, please. Have you got a category "Anger"?
ReplyDeletein, and glad you're allowing us to post late/early this time -- so this year I can make it!
ReplyDeleteI'll blog again this year.
ReplyDeleteI'm in - like the logo!
ReplyDeletesign me up. I've got the banner up in a separate post, because I am selectively braindead about how to put the banner into a Wordpress sidebar, but I'll keep the post up until after May 1
ReplyDeleteI am in.Any thing to help get the word out.
ReplyDeleteI'm in also. I'll start spreading the word as soon as I can.
ReplyDeleteCount me in.
ReplyDeleteThis is a brilliant idea. I missed last year's event but shall follow this year's avidly.
ReplyDeleteAnd consider me in. It may not be me doing the blogging though, but my other half. Exciting!
Bobby McGee from Wise Words From The Cynic is in, too.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.purple-anger.org
is Blind Accessible, too, if you're blind. I have a text only version:
http://purple-anger.org/index.php/text_only_version
I'm so excited to hear this is going to happen again! I've been thinking about my next Disabilism post since last May! We're in at Jenelle's Journey!
ReplyDeleteThis is a terrific idea. Those who are currently "fully abled" should keep in mind that that is most likely a temporary condition, at best.
ReplyDeletePeace, Liz
I have no idea what I'm going to say, but I'm in -> Last year's posts were amazing!
ReplyDeleteCount me in, please.
ReplyDeleteCount me in! You're going on my blogroll and I will do some articles on my site for you!
ReplyDeleteBest Wishes,
Tom
I'll be there (oh no, that song's going to be stuck in my head now) and posting under http://www.smiffysplace.com/against-disablism
ReplyDeleteLove the new logo. (I never did work out what the old one was.)
I'm in, of course!
ReplyDeleteI wasn't blogging this time last year, so this will be my first BADD.
ReplyDeleteCount me in!
Count me in too please :-)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.margomilne.com/wordpress/
Looking forward to the 1st May!
ReplyDeleteI'll be there :-)
Hi there
ReplyDeletePlease add me to your list of bloggers for BAD Day :-)
Cheers
Philip
Count me in! Academia as an Extreme Sport.
ReplyDeleteCount me in!
ReplyDeleteReality Check Woman @
Crip Chronicles
I'll be there with bells on.
ReplyDeleteYaaayyy! I can't wait!
ReplyDeleteCount me in. What a fabulous project.
ReplyDeleteI'm in - if energy and coherence permit. ;-)
ReplyDeletePlease count me in!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to join. Wanted to last year, but got busy.
ReplyDeleteI'm on it! Count me in!
ReplyDeleteI'm in. (Be afraid).
ReplyDeleteRe the category list: I suggest you publish it now so folks can see what you are thinking and ask/suggest if they think the list needs tweaking.
I'm a bit slow when it comes to this blogging lark. Obviously not been doing it long enough. So I added the graphic but forgot to mention that, yes, I will be talking part. Or even taking part. Right.
ReplyDeleteYes, I'd like to join in too. By May 1st do you mean English time? Should I therefore blog on May 2nd as I am in Australia?
ReplyDeleteI want to do this too
ReplyDeletePlease add me to your list of contributors.
ReplyDeleteI blog about ADHD and Learning Disabilities, as well as general disability issues.
WARNING: I'm going to get long-winded (again). Skip to the end for the gist, if you don't have time and/or patience for all the rest.
ReplyDeleteI had to really think about whether I would do this or not. Not only am I ridiculously overextended for someone who doesn't even have a job to go to every day, but I have a hang-up about "blog against" days, kind of the way I had a hang-up about Yom Kippur when I was a practicing Jew. Why just one day a year, I wondered back when I was a Jewish child? Why not atone right when you realize you've F'ed up and strive every day to be a better person? Similarly, aren't all my posts blogging against disablism by their very nature? Well, aren't they? Besides, who cares what I'm against; doesn't what I'm for really matter more in the long run? And again, doesn't what I'm for really count as being against disablism fundamentally?
And then there's the whole question of whether I myself am disablist since I have a hard time even seeing myself as disabled to begin with and may not really know what any of this means.
Then it occurred to me that perhaps I should put all this -- and all the other stuff that's started boiling around in my head since I read this -- in a Blogging Against Disablism Day post. So please count me in (at Moving Right Along), if you'll have me. If you're going with some sort of scheme of categories, perhaps my best spot would be under "confusion and ignorance."
On the other hand, maybe I'll be able to think of something less tortured, more specific, and more interesting to say by May 1. It could happen.
Sara, he he. I tried to compose a reply but ended up with shifting religious analogies from Judaism to Catholicism and it all got a bit messy.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, hope you can join us and whilst I hate to blatantly recommend my own writing, can I blatantly recommend what I wrote for last year's Blogging Against Disablism Day.
Anissa, really it's not that strict, so post on May 1st when it is May 1st wherever you are. :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the blatant recommendation! :) Yes, it did help clarify my thinking. In many ways, I go through a lot of the same stuff; but for me it's more that I worry about taking away from people who really need help, or that I fear over-dramatizing a personal situation which is really proving not to be all that dramatic, just incredibly annoying. But then I think about a certain Commissioner in Missouri and am dead certain I know what disablism is. And then I wonder how much of that I feel like fighting on a personal level, and then I worry how much of that could be perceived as some kind of cultural appropriation since I don't really feel all that disabled, but then I argue with myself that it's about having a complete, inclusive society that embraces diverse humanity, which is everybody's business.
ReplyDeleteBut I need to stop talking about this here and put it into notes for May 1, don't I? Sorry.
I will just say that my oncologist is fond of telling me I am not the first person to travel down the road I'm on. I always find this comforting because it means I don't have to invent everything from scratch as I go. And then I feel guilty for feeling comforted because other people have suffered, and probably a lot more than I have because somewhere along the line at least one of them did have to invent everything from scratch as s/he went.
(sigh)
The point is, nothing new under the sun, and I agree that whatever banner we fly over the conversation, it really is best we talk about these things. Thanks for your thoughts, and thanks for organizing the event.
I would like to sign up too.
ReplyDeleteHi. This is GREAT. I am in too. I think this is so important to raise awareness. Thank you for organizing this!
ReplyDeleteKathryn
Yes, please! I'll be blogging at http://jennifergrafgroneberg.wordpress.com, a blog called Pinwheels. Thanks for the opportunity to join together!
ReplyDeleteCount me in for "Blog Against Disablism Day"! You can find me at http://ablewriter.com/disabilities_rights_news/
ReplyDeleteCount me in :-) (now I just have to remember lol)
ReplyDeletePlease count me in,
ReplyDeleteLisa
mum to Mitch & Harry
ex 24.6 weekers
now 2 3/4 years old
We're in too!
ReplyDeleteJan's Group Home Support is in! My article topic will be about group home residents being seen as "takers" in society and how group home staff can assist in changing that stereotype and prejudice.
ReplyDeletePlease count me in.
ReplyDeleteI will be joining in.
ReplyDeletePlease count me in. I'll blog about something relevant at www.doitmyselfblog.com.
ReplyDeleteCount me in, too.
ReplyDeleteI plan to write something for this.
ReplyDeleteI'll write a post too. Good idea having everyone categorize their own posts.
ReplyDeleteI'm in! I'll probably be late, mind...
ReplyDeleteOnly too glad to lend my voice to the cause again.
ReplyDeleteI'm in again also! And we might be in the middle of the Irish General Election also! Whoopee!! (Sense the irony!!!)
ReplyDeletewww.mamanpoulet.com
Please count me in!
ReplyDeleteI'm in! Thanks for doing this again!
ReplyDeleteAssuming Im not giving birth, ill be contributing. Oh I can comment for britain!!
ReplyDeletecheers and KBO!!!
I would like to blog about having mental health problems as a result of being visually impaired if that is appropriate. I will probably mention employment, education and social issues. Many people believe that you can either see or you are blind and do not realise that you can be incurably partially sighted.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry if you get this twice, but count me in :) (Computers seem to be against me today.
ReplyDeleteI will more than likely be blogging over at my wordpress site:
ReplyDeletehttp://rainflowermoon.wordpress.com/
Sorry I didn't specify earlier, but I've had one of those days. Cheers!
I would love to participate as well. Thanks for educating and advocating!
ReplyDeleteCount me in. Most definitley
ReplyDeleteCan I still participate? You probably dont'know me but I would love to contribute.
ReplyDeleteAstrid - that's fine, everyone's welcome. :-)
ReplyDeleteSycophantique - that sounds great, but I don't know where your blog is so I can't put you on the list at the moment.
hello - bit late to the party but not too late I think - am in - not sure what to write - but will have a go!
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ReplyDeleteI want to join in, too! We are at Gabi's World - http://www.gabis-world.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteFabulous!
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Yes, please count me in!
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count me in!
ReplyDeletewww.jennysdays.blogspot.com
Doh! As I'm not really up on blogging I thought that I'd just be able to leave a post and that I didn't actually have to have a blog of my own! I don't have a web page of my own. No matter though. How long does it take to set up a blog and where can I get it hosted? If I can get one set up for May 1st then I will. It could be my first post lol.
ReplyDeleteI would like to join in and write about how my daughter's food allergies are being addressed by our school district. Does that qualify?
ReplyDeleteWell I decided not to contribute, then Beep beep set me off considering all the adventures which we have had keeping mobile over the years and I guess I got carried away and maybe there is some examples of how discrimination causes a few apparent problems.
ReplyDeleteSo count me in, if you like
http://dysfictionalramblings.blogspot.com/
Rocky
i'm in! i'll be blogging at http://www.thismom.com
ReplyDeleteHello, we're in, probably a couple of authors.
ReplyDeletehttp://transabled.org
Sychophantique - it's really easy to set up a blog with Blogger, if you click here. There are other clients too, but I think blogger is probably the most user-friendly starting place.
ReplyDeleteNo Whey Mama - if you think your post is appropriate, then you are more than welcome. I should imagine it probably will be.
Hi! We're behind on our blogging but Steve assures me he'll have something to contribute on the Planet of the Blind...Thanks for this opportunity!
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Hi count me in!
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Hi my blog cryptick is on
ReplyDeletehttp://www.turnaround.cdis.co.uk/weblog/index.html
count me in.
Count me in
ReplyDeleteHi! I'd love to participate! My blog is over on LJ. It's www.chantphantom.livejournal.com and I'll be posting some articles there somewhere around Tuesday. This is a great idea!
ReplyDeletePhew! I'm glad that worked! Only problem was, I gave you the url for my blog wrong. Woops! So here it is correctly. http://chantphantom.livejournal.com
ReplyDeleteYay me again! http://etana.livejournal.com
ReplyDeleteI'm excited!
I'll be blogging for http://anikakaplan.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteI'll be writing about diaper discrimination. Seriously...my daughter has cp and has been turned down from preschools because she's still in diapers at age three.
that's like, tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteok
over at http://suburbanhen.blogspot.com/
I'd be happy to join. My blog is Gaijin Mama at http://gaijinmama.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful idea! Count our site in:
ReplyDeletehttp://caughtya.org
Count me in, too!
ReplyDeleteRaising my hand.
ReplyDeleteCount me in too.
ReplyDeletehttp://rachelcreative.wordpress.com
I am so in.
ReplyDeleteLovely and Amazing
http://www.wonderbabe.blogspot.com/
Thank you so much! I look forward to participating.
ReplyDeleteLove to help out, but I'm not sure that my linky dinky skills are up to the task......I'll print it out and see if it makes more sense when I read it on paper!
ReplyDeleteCheers
Thanks for this great opportunity (& to Kev for sending the link out to the Autism Hubbers). -Lisa/Jedi at Life in the New Republic
ReplyDeletehttp://lisa-jedi.blogspot.com/
I have posted my tuppence worth
ReplyDeletehugs
Jenny bear
I'll do it! I missed this somehow last year.
ReplyDeletemy url is
ReplyDeletewww.jennysdays.blogspoy.com
sorrrrry,,
ReplyDeletewww.jennysdays.blogspot.com
Ok here is my link, standing up for Neurodiversity in the Mother of all Parliaments wearing the Mother of all hats.
ReplyDeletehttp://laurentius-rex.blogspot.com/2007/04/no-minisiter-or-parliamentary.html
Maybe it ain't the first of May yet but what the heck, today is as good a day as any.
Please count me in.
ReplyDeleteI'll participate at blog.reidelizabeth.ca and eagerly read the other posts. This will give me a chance to spend some time thinking how to bring my work and family selves together. Thinking time is often too short, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteCount me in, please.
ReplyDeleteHi there, am the slowest to put my hand up as always, but please count me in.
ReplyDeleteDave Hingsburger here and I'm in.
ReplyDeleteCount me in!
ReplyDeleteandrea
I'm in!
ReplyDeleteJust discovered this. Great idea. I'm particularly interested in promoting accessible website design, so I'll blog about that as close to 1 May as I can manage. My site is at www.sean.co.uk.
ReplyDeleteWill contribute! Employment/volunteerism/Disabed view of the Disabled
ReplyDeleteWe are in. Brilliant idea, I have passed it on to others.
ReplyDeleteI'm in! Me too, me too! Thank you for organizing this!
ReplyDeleteCount me in!
ReplyDeleteThank everyone, this is brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThere are a few people who have left a comment but whom I don't have a URL for and can't find one through blog profiles. I can't add Daddicade, Angelica or Mar to the list yet as I don't have anywhere to link to.
Also, if anyone notices I have missed anyone or otherwise made any mistake, do please let me know.
Thanks again. :-)
Rushing in at the last minute-please count me in too!
ReplyDeletePS I *love* this banner-do you mind if I keep it posted on my sidebar after may 1?
ReplyDeleteHere's Diddums rushing anxiously to keep up with the crowd! I'll be blogging on May 1st, so please add my blog to your list:
ReplyDeleteAw Diddums
http://www.blogigo.co.uk/diddums
I'm in
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine pointed me in this direction. She has one kind of disability; my son has a completely different kind. I'll be happy to comment. I'll have it on my "regular" blog, though (different than the one connected to this blog ID) at windsornot.livejournal.com. Or maybe I'll just write something at both this blog (windsornot.blogspot.com) as well as the other in some way. The more the message is out, the better, right?
ReplyDeleteGreat idea.
ReplyDeleteCount me in!
I'm kind of new to all of this, but I'm in if you'll have me.
ReplyDeleteI intend to join blogging against disablism. However, I am doing it in a slightly different way. I am going to do a post highlighting individuals who have triumphed despite disability and discrimination. I am going to tell a little of my own story and those of three or four corageous individuals I followed online. I believe achieving (no matter how small the achievement) despite naysayers is the best way to counteract disablism.
ReplyDeleteI'm in!
ReplyDeleteMy post took a different turn and it's about how group home staff can do their part to change prejudice against the disabled when in the community. The Fight Against Prejudice
ReplyDeleteI'm in as well! http://momnos.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteCount me in!
ReplyDeleteDaisy
Compost Happens
http://compostermom.blogspot.com
though its late, I'm in!
ReplyDeleteModern Lei Feng
http://huoleifeng.blogspot.com
I will definately posting on disablism on May first, I can think of no better way to continue a day dedicated to the struggle "for the people" - plus I get to get super pissed off and legitimize it! Wheelchairs and disability in Canada at: http://elizabethmcclung.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteI would love to participate - Jodi
ReplyDeleteI'd love to join in. My livejournal address is write_naked.livejournal.com. This is an awesome idea!
ReplyDeleteI'm in, thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi! I'm still not on the list, so I wanted to just restate that I'm in . (http://www.neverthateasy.blogspot.com) Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi de ho there!
ReplyDeleteDid the linky do dah business, so count me in. [please]
Cheers dears
Hi, I'm new to this blogging lark, but I'd like to join in.
ReplyDeleteThanks
An eleventh hour contribution from me - or rather from a guest writer who doesn't have a blog of his own.
ReplyDeleteHi there!
ReplyDeleteI'm aware it's probably already may 1st somewhere in the world, but please count me in!
www.awaketodream.net
Buzzed.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.webstandards.org/2007/04/30/blogging-against-disablism-day/
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ReplyDeletewhat a good idea. i am in.
ReplyDeleteCount me in...
ReplyDeletehttp://maternal-instincts.blogspot.com
You can count me in, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm over at http://comautworld.blogspot.com.
Count me in for Blogging Against Disabilism Day - Monastic Musings
ReplyDeleteHi!!! I tried to sign up the other day, but I guess it didn't go through. I am going to Blog today, so I hope I'm not too late! Thanks,
ReplyDeleteAmy
Saint Nobody
http://saint-nobody.blogspot.com
I want to add my blog and 2 cents' worth to your orchestra of voices.
ReplyDeleteOoooooooopppppsssssss!!!!
ReplyDeleteI forgot the link to my blog!!!
*I feel shame*
http://magicway.wordpress.com/
Namaste,
GwenGuin
Here is my post on the "Dis of Disabiity."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.autismvox.com/on-the-dis-of-disability/
Thanks for pulling this together!
I've got mine done. And even on time for once!
ReplyDeletethe link:
http://twinklelittlestar.typepad.com/letter/2007/05/blogging_agains.html
the subject:
Being a disabled parent. Parenting defensively.
Blogs away!
ReplyDeleteMy contribution is up:
http://rachelcreative.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/blogging-against-disabilism-doodle/
Title: Blogging Against Disabilism (Doodle)
Subject: A drawing with an explanation (about perception of disability)
Category suggestions:
General Thoughts on Disablism
or
Art Against Disablism
Hello and congratulations on organising this accessibility awareness campaign. I am glad to join in:
ReplyDeletehttp://dimodi.com/?open=118&lang=en
(in English)
http://dimodi.com/?open=118&lang=bg
(in Bulgarian)
Best regards,
Dimo
Sofia, Bulgaria
Count me in. The post is up today, May 1st.
ReplyDeleteA fine and inventive idea. As a Mental Health worker, I'm happy to add my little bit.
ReplyDeletehttp//ishouldbworking.blogspot.com
I've posted!
ReplyDeleteISBW
I have posted Disability rights and Australian websites confusion. Count me in.
ReplyDeleteCount me in. I love the logo.
ReplyDeleteMother Laura put me on to this.
I just heard at the 11th hour about this effort. I'll do a blog entry ASAP to meet the 5/1 deadline. Thanks for doing this! What a great idea.
ReplyDeleteThank you for raising awareness. I will post today - and use one of your lovely logos.
ReplyDeleteMy post is up: http://sneakypony.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteBlogging this evening, May 1st.
ReplyDeleteThough I'm a bit on the late side, I'm in (if possible)
ReplyDeleteI blogged for the day. Great idea!
ReplyDeleteHowdy, thanks for providing the opportunity and the prod!
ReplyDeleteJust posted: 'Against disabilism - Ensuring accessibility'.
I'm a public service web worker and I've had a bit of a rant about ensuring accessibility.
Would love your views!
best
We here at www.worksafely.com
ReplyDeletewould like to be included in your campaign to blog against disablism. We have posted our entry at the following URL.
http://www.worksafely.com/blogs/safetynews/archive/2007/05/01/safe-enough-for-disabled-workers-means-safer-for-all.aspx
If it is not too late, would you please add us to the blogroll on the left side of your site.
Thank you kindly,
Cooper Lang
www.worksafely.com
Sorry, I forgot to specify a section where this link would be appropriate.
ReplyDeleteI believe it would be most suitable for the employment section.
(see above comment)
Thank you kindly,
Cooper Lang
www.worksafely.com
I know it's a bit late, but it's still May 1st. I'd like to do this too please!
ReplyDeleteI have a knitting blog, though my day job is working with the web for state agency here in the U.S.
ReplyDeletehttp://yarnmaven.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/in_my_job_as_a.html
Yes, I will participate by getting something on even at this late time of day!
ReplyDeleteLate in the day but I've made apost on my blog http://andallthatstash.alltangledup.com/
ReplyDeleteI've made a post on my blog - I was at the hospital getting tests so late in posting - sorry. Titled: Blogging against Disablism: those lazy, decieving disabled..why won't they die?
ReplyDeleteOver at: http://elizabethmcclung.blogspot.com/
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ReplyDeleteAre you letting in food bloggers? If you are I'll make sure you get well fed. My post is titled The real reason is... It's at http://tankeduptaco.blogspot.com/2007/04/real-reason-is.html
ReplyDeleteIt's Liz from I Speak of Dreams.
ReplyDeleteHere's my post, it's on education in the United States, and how teachers are systematically unprepared to teach persons with Specific Learning Disability--Reading (or dyslexia, if you prefer).
I just posted too. It's still May 1 in my part of the world. Thanks again for doing this.
ReplyDeletehttp://emmasage.blogspot.com/2007/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-may-1st.html
ReplyDeleteJoining in....and saying 'Thank you' I've been busy reading all night......
the good, the BADD, the invisible - Academia as an Extreme Sport doing a bit of a narrative on invisible disability and chronic pain.
ReplyDeleteHere's mine
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rachelstavern.com/?p=521
Only 23:19 here.
ReplyDeleteMy post is at http://simuljustis.blogspot.com/
-Jay
I'm up here.
ReplyDeleteIt's personal and about stigma
At http://ALTERabilities.com we say, "DISabled", phooey! I'm not DISabled. I'm DIFabled - I'm ALTERabled - - - Geez, Let's focus on what IS working, not on what AIN'T."
ReplyDeleteMore at:
http://alterabilities.com/disabled-phooey
Love,
Clay Cotton
My post is up before the deadline! Well, before midnight MY time, anyway.
ReplyDeleteWasn't 1st of May already taken by a century or so?
ReplyDeleteI posted- just few verses of mine, but I encourage to read.
ReplyDeleteI have a post up. A few hours late my time but it's still May 1st in Hawaii. lol! I posted about a positive experience, which can be quite rare, so I hope others read it and enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI almost forgot to add... you need to go to the "Are We Having Fun Yet?" blog to read the post. Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteI posted. :)
ReplyDeleteI guess I forgot to let everyone know - I posted too, in the late hours of May 1!
ReplyDeleteSex, Disability, and Disableism:
http://awaketodream.net/?p=405