Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 18, 2024The Biggest Crisis A #PoliCartoon by me and Becky Hawkins.
- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Fat Patients, Fat Patience #FatAcceptance
- Untitled May 17, 2024Thinking of that time that Degas painted the actress Ellen Andree sitting and looking pensive in a cafe, and Monet saw Degas' painting and decided to find the same actress and get her to pose in the same cafe so he could do his own version.
- Untitled May 17, 2024Copyright claims often go too far, crushing free speech and not allowing for the way artists are influenced by, repurpose, and even coincidentally echo, other art. Not this time, though! Jeff Dieschburg is a straight-up tracer who adds NOTHING original when he paints his copies of photos. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Defending Free Speech
- Untitled May 16, 2024The Existence of Trains Debate #PoliCartoon #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
- Untitled May 18, 2024
Author Archives: Kay Olson
French ad offers fresh perspective
This was originally posted on The Gimp Parade in March, 2005. A French energy company has produced a video advertisement about access for the disabled that is quite interesting. The link leads to a page in French (naturally) where you … Continue reading
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Nothing about us without us
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this (.pdf file) since I read it a week ago. It’s the text of a speech by Jim Elder-Woodward given to the Scottish Disability Equality Forum in 2000 that begins with a … Continue reading
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The joys of impairment
In discussions about quality of life or eugenics or disability pride, some nondisabled person often asserts that it’s obvious — despite all moral arguments on the value of disabled persons lives — that a body with impairments is just physically … Continue reading
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Protesting pity
So the MDA Telethon is tonight and tomorrow. I’ve written here and here about the reasons a charity telethon — particularly one that insists on using Jerry Lewis to evoke pity for disabled people — does not help the status … Continue reading
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Fake disabled children
A couple weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran an article about how textbook publishers meet diversity quotas for the photos in their books. The article covers the lengths publishers go to in order to portray diversity in race, ethnicity, … Continue reading
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Introduction of Blue
My name is Kay Olson, though most people in the blogworld know me as Blue. Or Blue Lily, or back at the Ms. Boards before they imploded I was Blue Girl. Amp has asked me to guest blog for a … Continue reading
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