Archive for category: Disability

Worst gender politics of the year, wheelchair division    (2016.01.09)

Supercrip Bo Hedges: “[S]pinal-cord injury is one of the more heteronormative-looking disabilities you can have” (sic)

Michael Erard should know better    (2014.08.27)

Esteemed colleague Michael Erard knew perfectly well, I am sure, that it was always possible to use the relay service to fact-check an article with a deaf source

The Spies of Wheel-Trans    (2013.07.11)

Wheel-Trans really has been spying on its passengers. I should know – I’m the one who filed the complaint about it

News photo of the year    (2013.02.17)

Oscar Pistorius in court, by Antoine de Ras, who offers superexclusive details on how he got the shot

Guide Dog Users of Canada conference 2012    (2012.10.14)

I was the sole hack in the room for the Guide Dog Users of Canada annual conference

Prosthetic foot with bobspike    (2012.03.18)

Cody Reese’s foot and shoe

Toronto police and fire departments have no plan to help deaf people    (2012.02.12)

Toronto police and fire departments have no plan to deal with deaf people. At all

Lorraine Sommerfeld: Blind teen can fix cars but can’t read article about him    (2011.06.16)

Newsflash, Lorraine Sommerfeld: A teen who can fix cars does not need sighted help to read a newspaper

‑lympic    (2010.07.27)

At the Olympic and Paralympic presser for London 2012, I was the only writer interested in the Paralympics. Spoiler alert: Brian and Robin McKeever are their secret weapon