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An interview with Sarah May Scott
Susannah Breslin is a guestblogger on Boing Boing. She is a freelance journalist who blogs at Reverse Cowgirl and is at work on a novel set in the adult movie industry. (Self-portrait by Sarah May...
View ArticleHow do blind architects rethink buildings?
"We were exploring how we could sense it with a cane, sense it with our fingers, sense it with our feet... There is this great palette of textures...All of a sudden, it starts to engage your brain in a...
View ArticleMichael Franti's "The Sound of Sunshine" in sign language
Video link. There's a whole genre of ASL (American Sign Language) music videos, exemplified perfectly by smokin' hot hottie-hot Jennie Batchelder in her fantastic interpretation of Michael Franti's...
View ArticleRaising money for paralyzed graffiti artist and open eye-tracker pioneer TEMPT1
Here's a Kickstarter project from the EyeWriter team -- EyeWriter being a set of free/open libraries and hardware for doing eye-tracking for input and robotic control. EyeWriter has its inception with...
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Where's Molly: heartbreaking reunion with developmentally disabled sister...
Jeff Daly's sister Molly was sent away when he was six and she was three; all though his childhood, Jeff pestered his parents with the question, "Where's Molly?" He only got non-answers like "She's...
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Maine to legalize switchblades for one-armed people
A Maine legislator has introduced a bill to make it legal for people with one arm to own and carry a switchblade (because you need two hands to operate a regular clasp knife). I actually quite like...
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Wheelchair for the developing world: cheap, rugged and easy to maintain
Core77's case-study of the MIT Mobility Lab's "Leveraged Freedom Chair" is a fascinating look at the difficulties presented by designing a sustainable wheelchair for use by disabled people in the...
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Travel guide for American invalids, 1887
1887's Appleton's illustrated hand-book of American winter resorts for tourists and invalids is a whirlwind tour through all the places you can go and die of consumption in the America of yesteryear:...
View ArticleUS, EU want to delay copyright treaty to help blind people for 3-5 years
Jamie Love sez, "On April 15, 2011, the European Union participated in informal negotiations on the World Intellectual Property Organization treaty for the blind. The meeting was held at the US...
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Man chooses "elective amputation" for bionic hand, after motorcycle accident
A 26-year-old man in Austria who lost the use of his right hand in a motorcycle accident ten years ago has decided to undergo "elective amputation," after which he will be fitted with a bionic hand...
View ArticleDevelopmentally disabled man harrassed by TSA at Detroit airport
A doctor reports that his developmentally disabled son was harrassed and traumatized by the Detroit airport TSA screeners, who wanted to investigate the "puffiness" caused by his adult diaper. They...
View ArticleHero of quadroplegic game controllers to retire, replacement needed
Ed sez, "With a retired Bozeman engineer's 70th birthday approaching, disabled gamers say they fear there will be no one to replace Yankelevitz, who has sustained quadriplegic game controllers for 30...
View ArticleBlind person uses ATM for first time
This video shows the process that a blind man goes through in using a particular ATM for the first time; the machine he selects is one that has a ton of assistive features that are aimed at making use...
View ArticleAmerican money is very hard on blind people
Tommy Edison, the blind film critic last featured here demonstrating an "accessible" ATM explains the inaccessible design of US money and the difficulties it presents for people with vision problems....
View Article29-year-old woman born deaf hears herself for the first time
[Video Link] sloanchurman says: "I was born deaf and 8 weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time :)" (Via Sean Bonner)
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Inside Kabul: landmine survivor aid activist live-blogs from lockdown in...
I've known of James Hathaway and the NGO he co-founded, Clear Path International, for many years. They do great work to help civilian survivors of landmine blasts, people who now have disabling...
View Article"I'm proud of you," deaf man signs to Obama in ASL. "Thank you," president...
[Video Link] From H. Hoover at Distriction blog, a little anecdote about a cool interaction that Stephon, a young man who was "born deaf and justifiably proud," had with the president at a recent...
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TSA agents harass 7-year-old girl with cerebral palsy and developmental...
The Transportation Security Administration launched the “TSA Cares” program to assist disabled fliers just four months ago, but a story making the rounds today proves that the TSA definitely does not....
View ArticleDeaf man writes that TSA agent mocked him as “F*cking deafie,” then stole his...
Update (June 12): The young author of the post alleging mistreatment by the TSA contacted Boing Boing to request that we delete/unpublish this blog post, explaining that he hadn't intended the story to...
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How's Your News, Election 2012: developmentally disabled reporters go to GOP...
Boing Boing has spotlighted "How's Your News" in years past, and I'm delighted to see the team reassembled to cover the 2012 presidential elections. The project features a team of reporters with...
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