Written by: Connie Kuusisto
Just as "It Takes a Village" to raise children, it also takes a village to raise awareness about issues of disability.
"By uniting people with disabilities and those desiring to enjoy our social intercourse, share our cultural perspective, understand our political agenda, and address our broad general and specific consumer needs, we will achieve success."
This statement, borrowed from the powerful Mission Statement of [with]tv is also useful when referring to the community of bloggers discussing issues of disability. [with]tv is on a mission to unite people with disabilities....and everyone else. This blog has been created to support that mission and this blog, like every other blog, needs a village.
Having said that, we would like to introduce the following blogs to our blogroll titled "Disability Matters". Please visit, comment, link and enjoy one another as we celebrate life, with or with out a disability, and each other. Let us welcome these blogs, and their "bloggers", to our [with]tv Village.
This is Living and Pedestrian Hostile are two popular ezines created by Jennifer Justice. In addition to blogging for [with]tv, she has contributed to numerous publications writing on art, disability rights, technology and feminism.
Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia is in her own words a "Sarcastic 40ish brain-damaged computer programmer." And will she make you laugh...
Mark Siegel of the The 19th Floor, also blogs for [with]tv. You can learn more about Mark by reading his "Desperate Plea for Attention". Since he is desperate be sure to click the link just under his Dossier and his photo found on his blog - and hurry!
Disability Culture Watch by Simi Linton is a disability-focused commentary on the arts. Who is Simi Linton you ask? As a writer, consultant and public speaker, Simi Linton is one of America’s foremost experts on disability and the arts.
Diary of a Goldfish, a very smart blogger from the UK, also the "home" of Blogging Against Disablism Day
