Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Tangled, Toronto’s first accessible art gallery for disabled artists, is bringing the outsiders in

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From The National Post in Canada: Outsider art – a term coined in 1972 by British art historian Roger Cardinal –was often displayed i...
Monday, June 20, 2016

The British comic book where disabled heroes save the world

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From The Guardian in the UK: “We have constant disagreements over who’s better: Superman or Spider-Man,” says Dan White, referring to c...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Disney•Pixar unveils mobile audio description for ‘Finding Dory’

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From the Lighthouse for the Blind : After lots of collaboration, tweaking and testing, the LightHouse is proud to announce that this w...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

In Hollywood, diversity usually ignores disabled people

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From The Los Angeles Times : The story at the heart of Warner Bros.’ recently released film “Me Before You” is what fairy tales are ma...

From David Cameron to the Grim Reaper: British cartoonist Crippen on decades of disability advocacy

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From Culture 24 in the UK: Dave Lupton, aka Crippen, Britain’s leading Disability cartoonist, has donated his huge archive of more t...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

How YouTube videos have helped people cope with mental illness

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From NPR's Morning Edition : Rachel Star Withers (pictured) runs a YouTube channel where she performs goofy stunts on camera and t...

New UN committee member, Robert Martin of New Zealand, first with intellectual disability to serve

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From The Associated Press : UNITED NATIONS  One of nine new members elected to the United Nations' persons with disabilities commi...
Sunday, June 5, 2016

‘I’m not a thing to be pitied:' the disability backlash against Me Before You

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From The Guardian in the UK: When the marketing team behind  Me Before You  came up with the hashtag #LiveBoldly to promote this story...