Left out: Fashion and Disability
Thank you for writing this interesting post for The Seated View, Emma!
Yes Lene, There Is a (an Accessible) Santa Claus
At a certain point in life, you realize that the mystical, magical creatures who populated your childhood are perhaps more prosaic in origin. The Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Santa… Adulthood takes over and the world loses a bit of its shine. And then something happens to make you realize that the magic never went…
Our Hands Can! Community Stories: October 2014 – Change of Seasons
Change in the air this time of year. Whether it’s leaves that change colours, wardrobes changing from summer tank tops to sweaters (or vice versa in the Southern hemisphere), or the temperatures, there is a shift going on. At Show Us Your Hands!, we got so excited about change that we decided to update a…
Refusal of Care: Disabled Women and Breast Cancer Screening
Updated March 16, 2022 I was long past the recommended age to have a mammogram the first time I had one. The reason? Lack of accessibility in cancer screening equipment and procedures. And I’m not alone. Breast cancer is the most frequent type of cancer among women, yet women who have a disability are…
Fashion for Real Life: Clothes for People with Disabilities
Living well with a disability has a lot to do with finding new ways to do things. Likewise, accessibility is about throwing out the norm and finding another way to your goal. “Izzy Camilleri has seamlessly united fashion, form, and comfort by defying centuries of design and pattern-making conventions. Most fashions are designed for a…
Our Hands Can! Community Stories: September 2014 – Work
Work. We all do it, every day. It’s the work we do for pay, the work we do as volunteers, and the work we do because it’s a passion. The theme for the Show Us Your Hands! September Picture Project was Work and we got a wonderful variety of submissions on our Facebook page. Our…
CreakyJoints “Clean My House”: A HealthCentral Exclusive
There are a lot of of great things about my job, but this week I got to do something extra cool: be the first to spread the news about the wonderful new initiative by CreakyJoints: “Keeping up with the tasks of life is one of the most challenging aspects of living with RA and the…
Thoughts on Walking and Not
This is a photograph from the last summer I walked. It’s the summer of 1976 and we’re at a cottage rented by my parents. Standing with me are my little sister — then actually little — and my best friend AB. We’re spending two weeks in this cottage made of wood, the exterior walls painted…
Chronic Pain, Opioids, and Quality of Life: A Guestpost by Dan Malito
September is Pain Awareness Month in the US. One of the crucial issues to people living with high levels of chronic pain is the ability to have access to opioids. Yet, there are so many misconceptions that block that access. To help raise awareness and understanding about what it’s like to live with the kind…
Mayoral Debate on Disability Issues
Earlier this week, I attended a mayoral debate on disability issues. For those not familiar with the Toronto political scene, we have a municipal election coming up in about a month and the candidates have been debating up a storm. The main contenders for mayor are John Tory, Olivia Chow, and Doug Ford (taking the…