Crip Buzz: July 2017


I Got Bingo! (Para Bingo, That Is)

para bingo“Sarah Palegic and I collaborated on this. I give you: Para Bingo!” posted Amanda Russel, who then noted it applies to all wheelchair users.

The comments were rich:

Now I feel like I have to make a companion card for the specific nonsense disabled parents get! “Where’s their mom?” “Wow, kids are really brutal, hee hee.” “I can’t believe they let her have children.” “Are they yours?” and on and on.
— Elizabeth Camber

I use a power chair to walk the dog, and just last week some bozo actually pulled his car up to me, rolled down his window and asked if I wanted to race.
— Trish Perez

BINGO! I got “blackout!”
— Cynthia Sue Dietz


Self-Driving Cars Should be Designed for People With Disabilities

Sarah Kaplan [who has cerebral palsy] didn’t have many friends as a child — she almost never left the house. Access, or the lack of it, has been constant in her life for as long as she can remember. She schedules nearly every part of her day around how she’ll get from point A to point B.
Sarah Kaplan “Being able to access transportation is the difference between being part of the community and not,” Kaplan said.

To solve these problems, the technology needs proper design.

Now, [a recent report by] the Ruderman Family Foundation is arguing that new transportation technology, including ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft, can transcend traditional transport systems and allow people with disabilities to get to school, jobs and other opportunities. And the promise of autonomous vehicles gives people with mobility barriers a glimmer of hope.

But to solve these problems, the technology needs proper design. “By incorporating accessibility in the front-end of development, the [disabled] community will not be forced to fight for accessibility on the back-end,” the Ruderman Foundation said of self-driving cars.

Excerpted from motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/self-driving-cars-should-be-designed-for-people-with-disabilities.


Bob Vogel, NM Senior Correspondent and … Falconer?

Bob Vogel at Falconry class

“Here is a photo from the Falconry class at the No Barriers Summit at Squaw Valley,” posted Bob Vogel to Facebook on June 3. “The class was so cool I attended twice. Amazing to have a hawk fly to my gloved hand and then look it close in the eye.”


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