Microsoft Releases Adaptive Controller for Xbox, Takes “Control” of Disability Market
The Super Bowl provides companies with an opportunity to have their voices heard and their products seen by millions of people in one night. Microsoft took full advantage of this visibility by releasing a commercial for their newest product – the Xbox Adaptive Controller. ID: The Xbox Adaptive Controller. A sleek rectangular controller, white with […]
Gaten Materazzo, CCD Smiles Launches First Convention for People with Cleidocranial Dysplasia
Image description: A photo of four people with cleidocranial dysplasia wearing matching blue convention t-shirts. From left to right: Dr. Kelly Wosnik, Brayson Deano, Actor Gaten Materazzo, Actor/Comedian Emmett Furrow. Sometimes, I like to say that I’m one in a million. This is due to the fact that I have cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD). CCD is […]
Disney Channel’s ‘Andi Mack’ Is One Of The Most Diverse Kids Shows To Date
Image Description: Main character, Andi Mack, displayed in the center of the photo, and she shows to have an excited smile. Behind are fun decorations displayed in a room. In the top right corner, there is the title of the show, ‘Andi Mack’ in blue letters. Many of us remember fondly the “Golden Age of […]
The Shape of Ableism: Why I Will Never Watch Another Guillermo del Toro Movie
Image description: still from The Shape of Water: Elisa and the creature face each other lovingly through the glass of his tank. I didn’t get to the The Shape of Water until well after it had been awarded the Oscar for best film. A few months late to the party, entering the cinema I was […]
Astral Connection: How Virtual Worlds Gave Me a Place to Belong Outside My Body
Image Description: An avatar in a virtual world shown mixing music, with ranbow shoulder length hair and black angel wings. “The intellectual may feel enslaved in matter. If only she could escape from the body. But the mind will not fly unless we embrace the body as a path to freedom.” – Joanna Frueh In […]
Kat Von D Coming Out As An Anti-Vaxxer Also Means Coming Out As Wildly Ableist – Here’s Why
Image Description: Kat Von D’s face in the middle of the photograph, and wears winged eyeliner and drawn stars on her cheek. Von D has her hand positioned slantly as she holds her eyeliner above the star on her cheek. Beauty entrepreneur Kat Von D took headlines this past week for posting an Instagram picture […]