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Web sightings

Being Disabled in an
Uninformed World
Five Web favorites from Access Press staff

What are your favorite disability-related video clips? With this new feature, we will present a handful of recently-discovered informative or entertaining disability-related Web sites, video clips and news items. Each month, we will be asking a different Web-savvy member of the local disability community to contribute some of their favorite recent online finds.

For this inaugural installment, our marketing director, Lance Hegland, contributes videos and photographs that highlight what it means to be disabled in a world that isn’t always understanding or aware, and how to deal with uninformed people and unenlightened situations with both humor and grace (though not necessarily both!)

Flex your ‘access,’ click and enjoy!

p.s. Send us your five favorites and we’ll feature you next! access@accesspress.org

 

“I Define Me”
www.youtube.com/

This video deals with the ongoing struggle to stay out of the box people keep putting you in. It reminds us how the personal is political, and vice versa.

 

“Disability Awareness”
www.youtube.com/

“Disability Awareness (take 2)”
www.youtube.com/

The above two clips attempt to publicize the very real presence of people with disabilities in everyday life; although not surprising to Access Press readers, many people may be enlightened by these short public service announcement

 

“Creature Discomforts”
www.creaturediscomforts.org

This British public service announcement attempts to mix actual confessions from people with a disability with whimsical animations to both educate and entertain. It is effective as both a tool for dispelling myths and as a fun bit of identity subversion.

 

Parking Signs (Rated R)
www.frostfirepulse.com/your-spine-or-mine

Though not for the faint of heart within the disability community, these biting parking signs are effective at expressing the justified frustration felt toward those who park in designated spots in an unauthorized manner. This is perhaps what some of us fantasize could be hung up for particularly ignorant drivers!

 

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