Blogging Against Disablism Day: update
- 24 Apr 06, 3:47 PM
Last week on Ouch's weblog, Lady Bracknell revealed the exciting plans in the disability blogosphere (as all the cool kids now call it) for a on Monday 1 May.
Well, with a week to go until the big day, Crippled Monkey spoke this morning to The Goldfish (AKA Ouch messageboard reguilar DH Kelly), the brains behind the idea, to get an update on how it's all going. She told me that there are now an amazing 68 blogs signed up to be involved (a figure that's continuing to grow) - and that they hail from all points of the globe. The UK and the USA are obviously well-represented, but there are also several sites from Australia on the list, plus others from Sweden and Germany. Oh, and it's not just blogging either, as is promising a podcast for the event. Meanwhile, the organisers of and have also given Blogging Against Disablism Day a mention.
What's promised for the day itself? Well, lots and lots (and lots) of posts from all across blogland about disablism, of course! And after the event, DH Kelly hopes to provide an overview on her blog of what people have been writing about. In the meantime, though, as a rallying cry she highly recommends checking out a post entitled by, um, a blogger whose name may seem a little familar to Ouch readers ...
You've still got a whole week to sign up for Blogging Against Disablism Day, so get yourself over to and find out how to get involved.
Comments
Count me in! There's far too much idle use of Disablist terminology on the internet, and that is just where Disablism starts.
You talk about disablism as if it's as bad as racism or sexism or something. It is so clearly not.
Shelley: in some people's experience, it obviously is.
Please explain why disablism is "clearly not" as bad as racism or sexism.