tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79822592001768161242024-03-05T19:48:40.659-08:00Building Radical, Accessible Communities Everywhere.romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-25201010541813234232012-09-03T10:30:00.000-07:002012-09-03T10:40:09.977-07:00i've moved!So, i have moved over to wordpress!
Please make your way to http://radicalaccessiblecommunities.wordpress.com/ to find any of the posts you would find here. While it's still under construction over there too, you'll find the info you're looking for there. If there's something you'd like to repost from here, it would be really great if you'd go find it on the wordpress site and repost from thereromham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-39311161981994414072012-06-09T00:17:00.003-07:002012-07-02T17:47:58.500-07:00UNDER RE-CONSTRUCTION!please bear with a bear while i make the move over to wordpress.
please make your way over to http://radicalaccessiblecommunities.wordpress.com/
While it's still under construction over there too, you'll find the info you're looking for there.
thanks kindly for your patience!romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-53865481245504501452012-06-03T10:46:00.001-07:002012-06-03T10:46:06.783-07:00Trying to catch up!
hiya folks... just a little message to say i've been trying to catch up on getting access audits up here on the website, and it's taking a while. Things have been so busy lately, i've barely found time to take care of other necessary stuff, and then when i do have a few moments where i could update, i forget lol. Anyways, there's more coming, it'll just take a while to make it happen :) romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-75743015123851242282012-06-03T10:14:00.000-07:002012-06-03T14:26:05.492-07:00Person First?
Here's a really great commentary on the use of "person first" language:
The Problem with Person-First Language: What’s Wrong with This Picture?
i didnt even see the shadows til the writer mentioned them. Not a fan of this graphic or it’s message.
Too often people tell me “but I don’t see your disability!” and “I
don’t think of you as disabled!”. That’s troubling for me because, well,
romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-79014845643239229652012-05-23T00:08:00.000-07:002012-06-04T18:15:14.764-07:00gendered access
[picture: plain black and white drawing of a toilet and universal wheelchair symbol on the left, with black text wrapped to the right]"Oh gendered bathrooms and in/accessibility, you little scamps!These two symbols right here re all i need when choosing which bathroom to use. Contrary to popular belief, it's not necessary for you to know what genitals i possess in order for you to provide romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-66285285529417635242012-04-27T10:26:00.000-07:002012-04-27T10:26:07.115-07:00Letting go
So, i'm in the process of putting together a little "toolkit" that people can use to assist in doing the accessibility audits i've been doing. It's time to begin more actively letting them go. I've been doing more audits with other folks, and people are keen. In some ways it's hard to let them go, if that makes sense? But i also want to let them go, because that's the whole purpose of them! romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-19075420651514766532012-04-13T20:40:00.003-07:002012-04-14T22:23:12.476-07:00Auditing and sharing and auditing and sharing...So, a little math. In 3 years, ive done 51 accessibility audits. At an average of 5 hours work each, plus approximately 1-2 hours per audit on communication alone --and that's not including the work i do to upgrade the audit template, to research trends in access, to learn about and integrate technologies & services, update my access blog with new audits (which i'm sadly running behind on, romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-33554991204762600012012-03-11T18:20:00.000-07:002012-03-11T18:20:26.679-07:00REACH Community Health Centre AuditThe accessibilities audit of the REACH Community Health Centre was performed on December 22nd 2011 by the Radical Access Mapping Project, for the All Genders Wellness Centre. Learn more about the AGWC here:
http://www.allgenderswellness.com/All_Genders_Wellness_Centre/About_Us/About_Us.html
You can learn more about the Mapping Project and find other audited spaces here
http://romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-58769963899891878982012-03-11T18:08:00.001-07:002012-03-11T18:14:16.712-07:00M2M Vancouver steambaths Audit
This accessibilities audit of M2M Vancouver steambaths was performed on March 1st 2012 by the Radical Access Mapping Project, with assistance from the good folks at sTeam: Bathhouse For All Gender. You can find out more about sTeam by visiting their website at [http://steambathhouse.com/homepage/]
You can get more details about M2M here [http://m2mvancouver.com/]
You can learn more about romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-47114122145233766882012-03-01T14:21:00.000-08:002012-03-01T14:21:58.293-08:00Supporting Kids and Parents through childcareDon't Leave Your Friends Behind- Concrete Things You Can Do To Support Parents In Your Scene (Repost)
These suggestions are from the “Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Anarcha-feminism & Supporting Mothers and Children” workshop at La Revolta! To get a copy of the 22 page workshop handout: you can download it from: http://bengal.missouri.edu/~maxwellr/DontLeaveYourFriendsBehind.pdf or romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-28070758844627664502012-02-18T13:29:00.001-08:002012-02-18T13:29:44.630-08:00fiddling...
please note that im currently fiddling around with the settings here, it'll be up and making sense soon enough :)romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-66335330707232226332012-02-14T21:04:00.000-08:002012-02-15T09:21:14.221-08:00Inspiration Porn
[photo: black and white image of a bearded, white, tattoo'd, bespectacled person wearing a black tshirt, overalls and cap, sitting in a motorized mobility scooter, clasping their hands together while smiling big, with their forearm crutches sticking up behind them; text reads: "Know what i'm tired of? Images of disabled people doing random things, turned into "inspiration porn". These images (romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-90472148517885529382012-02-12T21:25:00.000-08:002012-02-15T20:11:51.014-08:00that awkward moment when...-------------------------------------- fromhttp://thededucer.tumblr.com/post/17330582800/that-awkward-moment-when
"that awkward moment when you gently question someone’s use of the ableist word “lame”, and suggest that they have a look at this post over at FWD, and their only response is to delete their original comments. errrrrr."--------------------------------------
Seriously.i think romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-87423875415308954592012-02-10T21:31:00.000-08:002012-02-10T23:16:40.272-08:00how do you be compassionate with yourself when all you want to do is rip your eyebrows off?i've spent so many years doing work to love and understand my survivor body | my fat body | my trans & genderqueer body | my aging body | my sober body | my gimped ache-filled body, working to turn down the volume during pain flares and pump it up during the rest of the time | to love my cunt in a cunt-hating world | and to love my tits | love my stretchmarks | even love this bald head of romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-66696238970940662592012-02-09T09:57:00.000-08:002012-02-09T09:57:38.862-08:00Fragrance Free Femme of Colour Realness Draft 1.5Another amazing piece by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha!
Fragrance Free Femme of Colour Realness Draft 1.5
by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinhabrownstargirl@gmail.com
"Dedicated to all my fierce femme of colour disabled and chronically ill warrior fam.
When I think about access, I think about love. I think that crip (disabled and chronically ill) solidarity, and solidarity between disabled romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-92058362682473721862011-12-11T20:33:00.003-08:002012-03-17T01:01:49.283-07:00Scarlet Road: A Sex Workers JourneySo i was finally able to watch the full length version of this today. It's a look into sex workers working with clients with disabilities, and about the connections between our communities, the stigmas faced, and how we can connect and be in solidarity with one another. Aside from some moments of ugh (in particular, there were several mentions of how "inspiring" and "rewarding" it is to work romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-5976036828964418512011-12-02T13:24:00.000-08:002011-12-02T14:09:41.202-08:00Gimps Against Gentrification!
[photo description: night street scene at a construction site, approximately 12 people, ranging in age, size, ability, colour, stand or sit in the rain in walkers, with canes, and a scooter at the front left, blocking one of the entrances to the under construction Paris annex condo development in Vancouver's DownTown EastSide]
REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS. EXPECT DELAYS.
While 24 folks occupiedromham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-11748595773876373472011-11-28T15:33:00.000-08:002011-11-28T15:47:02.481-08:00free traveller accessible transit information study
http://www.freetraveller.co.uk/#!about
"Free Traveller is a Loughborough University project to study how different forms of information help disabled people plan their journey in confidence.
The aim is simple, to understand how different forms of information effect the usability of a mashup (thats the thing with the information balloons on a map). Does different information effect how users romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-1071941814594400152011-11-14T13:40:00.000-08:002011-11-14T15:43:51.446-08:00not knowing / not botheringi don't actually have the power personally/ systemically/ institutionally to "force" or "make" you post accessibilitIES information for your events -- & if it must be forced, have folks learned anything?). However, if you consider yourself IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER "allied" to me as a disabled person, you will do the right thing & post it. If you don't know what to post, ask me or romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-52615567926729129512011-10-24T21:43:00.000-07:002011-10-25T10:57:38.811-07:00"What did you do to yourself to get stuck with those awful things?"
i really hope youll take a few moments to read this piece by Toby MacNutt about being asked questions about mobility aids by strangers. It is seriously fucking powerful and beautiful and says so many of the things i wish i could say more on the regular, instead of just shutting down. i've written angry screeds about it, cried about it, ranted to friends about it, written in my journal about romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-80101926779497107992011-08-29T17:46:00.000-07:002011-08-29T17:46:45.447-07:00THE FIRST LIVE AUDIO DESCRIPTION SERVICE IN CANADAHey folks :)Here's a bit of news from the BC Coalition of People With Disabilities about a new service available to blind & low-vision folks: THE FIRST LIVE AUDIO DESCRIPTION SERVICE IN CANADA! http://www.gvpta.ca/vtg-audio-descripting/
A program of Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture, VocalEye Live Audio Description Service provides the visual details of live romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-55109307657077262962011-08-24T22:53:00.000-07:002011-08-24T23:04:30.396-07:00Future Tripping.So i saw a film (fabulous by the way, highly recommend it: "Gen Silent") recently, and the discussion afterwards got me thinking. Well, it got me to leave quite frankly, but also thinking.
A panel was talking about the film and about aging LGBT folks more generally. And one of the things that kept getting said was different versions of: "We're all going to have to start planning (for aging and romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-40184055447748619022011-08-19T13:39:00.000-07:002011-11-18T12:26:24.163-08:00grammar, people!
http://madamethursday.tumblr.com/post/9078657201/just-putting-tumblr-on-notice
"When you post/reblog pithy little graphics or other things that bemoan others not using English words or grammar correctly, it makes me lose a lot more respect for you than anyone else. It makes me want to unfollow you.
On the best days, that kind of language policing and shaming is a little brother to the tone romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-59521571705679934592011-08-16T17:42:00.000-07:002011-12-08T11:47:30.334-08:00Valuing My Work, and How You Can Help!this come on the heels of a post i wrote about valuing my work i did a little while ago.
Here's something to ponder: if you have had me do an accessibility audit for you or used one of my existing accessibility audits & we never did any kind of trade/payment/exchange at the time, id like you to consider it now, retroactively, and for future audits.
So, for some examples:
If you romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982259200176816124.post-72631360649358951402011-08-15T15:30:00.000-07:002011-08-15T15:30:55.279-07:00Fierce Bodieshey folks, please consider donating to this Fierce Bodies campaign to help them get their first line off the ground. This is pretty groundbreaking stuff in terms of fragrance and chemical free hair and skin products, and i think could lead to some really amazing change in how we deal with our impacts on other folks' health.Below is the link to a video about Fierce Bodies, with english romham a bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12626215578500677176noreply@blogger.com0