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[with]tv: an A. Lorne Weil Outrageous Business Plan

[with]tv has been chosen as a 4th Prize Winner in the A. Lorne Weil Outrageous Business Plan Competition at Columbia Business School. The annual A. Lorne Weil Outrageous Business Plan Competition encourages Columbia students to explore creative entrepreneurial ideas that are sufficiently ambitious in scope and scale to be considered “outrageous.” Students explore these ideas while learning firsthand what goes into the development and presentation of a solid business proposal. 

 

Caption: [with]tv’s VP of Business Development Anna Pakman (Columbia Business School ’09) is pictured with other competition winners, competition sponsor A. Lorne Weil, and Murray Low, Director of the Entrepreneurship Program at Columbia Business School.

Disability Imagery in Advertising...

Simi Linton brings up an interesting point on her blog Disability Culture Watch...

"These ads imply a certain set of characteristics or traits inherent to disabled people – fortitude, perseverance, overcoming odds, robustness, which then, by extension, are thought to be attributable to the product being sold and, possibly, to other potential consumers of that product. I am guessing that is what the advertisers hope consumers think.

My concern is that these images set up a false divide between those deemed robust and those the general public has been schooled to read as un-robust disabled people. The images buy into notions of “fitness” that privilege certain bodies. I think the advertisers think they are doing something progressive and “liberal”, but, instead, may be reiterating stereotypes of physical prowess, albeit with a slightly wider pool of acceptability."

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Disability Blog Carnival #34

Andrea's Buzzing About: "Breaking Out!" in this edition of the Disability Blog Carnival.

"Hooray, spring is around the corner, and the crocus are breaking out through the last dregs of snow. (Well, at least it is in my neck o’ the woods.) I chose “breaking out” as a theme for this DBC because there are so many ways that people with disabilities can “break out” of social expectations and other limitations in our lives. I hoped that the theme would be more liberating than limiting, and am delighted in not only the range of posts, but also all the bloggers whose work I’d not seen before!"

Visit the link above to read through the posts in Andrea's carnival and learn how you can contribute to the next one.