Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Don't Dis My Ability Zine Update


Even though the infoshop basically guaranteed they’ll be carrying don’t dis my ability, they still need to have a collective meeting about it and they didn’t have one last week so I have to wait another week to find out if they’ll carry our (yes our, because so many people contributed to it) zine or not.  ARGH
By the way if you want your own very own copy cost (all inclusive - s&h, copy costs, etc) is
$4 US
$6 Canada
$8 international
email dontdismyability AT riseup DOT net

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

DISABILITY ZINE ACCOMPLISHED!


Disability Zine nitty gritty
42 pages of awesome (plus cover)
Images by basiL, billie rain, Jessie, Leslie Balch & Sasha Smithy, Amy @ amycakes.blogspot.com, & Sadie Sicko
POEMS:
Helium by Kristin Allen-Zito
Art Viewing by Jessie
Untitled by Trouble
ARTICLES:
Spoon Theory by Christine Miseradino
Handicap Nazi by Christy Leigh Stewart
Applying for Disability by Trouble
No pause, no break, no end by Meeresbande
Disability in the Movement: Including the Invisible by Comrade Canary

Accessible Design by Paula Bergman
Acquiring a Service Dog in the USA by Morgan at unheardofsongs.tumblr.com
It’s Not You, It’s Them by Michele Kaplan
A Dog with PTSD saves an owner with PTSD by Burrow
Making Spaces Accessible to People with Invisible Disabilities collected and edited by Burrow
Look for it at your local info shop (now becomes that very tricky trying to stretch my disability cheque so that I can print off and post at least 1 per info shop in N. America to see if they want to order them or not)
$3 to the US, $4 to Canada and $6 international.  Prices are all inclusive (printing, buying postage & mailing packets)
Email dontdismyability AT riseup DOT net
LARGE PRINT FORMAT (i.e. FULL SHEET ENLARGED TEXT) AVAILABLE.  Please let me know what font size you would like.