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- 14 May 07, 02:18 PM
The Disability Blog Carnival is in town. A ‘blog carnival’ is where a group of bloggers join together to post articles on a common theme. The event is usually hosted by a single blogger, who provides what is effectively a home page with links through to all the other entries.
The Disability Blog Carnival is a regular event, taking place fortnightly. Each carnival has a theme. Previous topics have included, “Disability and Culture” and “Independent Living.” The current carnival, hosted by The Gimp Parade, revolves around the theme, “Firsts.”
There are plenty of posts to take a look at, covering a diverse range of issues, from personal to political. Glenda Watson Hyatt recalls her feelings after giving her first speech, saying, “I was heard for the first time. I was no longer invisible, no longer silent.” Emma tells of the role reversal of being helped across the road by a well-meaning pensioner, in "A new Low" and says that, “If the old joke about helping an old lady cross the road has been replaced by one about the old lady helping the woman in the wheelchair across the road I’m making a formal complaint.” In the entry, “In search of the first… TAB”, Penny Richards looks for the first use of the term, ‘Temporarily Able-Bodied’, and makes the observation that the phrase “leaves unchallenged the construction of disability as a personal condition of decline, neediness, and affliction.”
I’ve spent far too much time reading blogs from this carnival and others. But there is some compelling content there, and I would highly recommend that you go and take a look – there is something of interest for everyone.
That many posts are broadly based on a unifying theme makes the blog carnival a very powerful and absorbing communication tool. It is just like an online magazine. I’ll be a regular reader, and look forward to the next Disability Blog Carnival on 24th May where the theme is “Disability and family.”
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