Disability Rights Activist Max Starkloff has died
I have just heard on twitter from CripChick that Disability Rights Activist Max Starkloff has died. Please read his obituary at the River Front Times Among other achievements, the Starkloffs and...
View ArticleSignal Boost: Disabled Peoples’ International 8th World Assembly South Africa...
Via Email: Attend DPI World Assembly and visit South Africa. Share the experiences of People with Disabilities from around the World and living in Africa. An opportunity not to be missed. For more...
View ArticleFWD Retrospective Week: Accessibility Edition
Welcome to FWD retrospective week! We’ve taking a look back at some of our favourite posts on a variety of themes over the next week. s.e. smith: Accessibility Policies Done Right: The Legion of Honor...
View ArticleInspiring Music
The song “Wonder” by Natalie Merchant is one of my favorite songs. I regard it as a disability anthem. Here is the music video of the song in which the singer and many women and girls sing along to the...
View ArticleFWD Retrospective Week: Policy Edition
Welcome to FWD retrospective week! We’ve taking a look back at some of our favourite posts on a variety of themes over the next week. s.e. smith: Florida Court Ruling: Community-based Services, Not...
View ArticleFWD Retrospective Week: Guest Posts Edition
Welcome to FWD retrospective week! We’ve taking a look back at some of our favourite posts on a variety of themes over the next week. Kaz: Disability and Asexuality Talking about the intersection of...
View ArticleFWD Retrospective Week: FWD Elsewhere Edition
Welcome to FWD retrospective week! We’ve taking a look back at some of our favourite posts on a variety of themes over the next week. Anna: Bitch: I Promise You Haven’t Heard This One Before (or, the...
View ArticleFor Your Tool-Box: How to get YouTube Captions to make a Transcript
My friend Capriuni passed along to me this awesome YouTube video of “Your Brains” (original song by Jonathon Coulton). In and of itself, that’s not really note worthy – Capriuni is my source for many...
View ArticleThe Largest Minority Round Table Discussion: Glee and Disability in Pop Culture
Last week s.e. smith and several other members of the disability community, including Alice Sheppard (a dancer with AXIS wheelchair dance company), TK Small (a lawyer and disability rights activist),...
View ArticleGoodbye From FWD
Dear Readers: We agreed when we began that this site wouldn’t run indefinitely, that we would move aside when the time has come, and that time has come. Long before FWD was even imagined, people were...
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