Sure, the slogan’s good, but what about this logo? (Click on the image to see a bigger version) Borrowed from Alex Woodruff’s blog, leave a comment below and let me know what you think…

Over at InterDependence, a group of 3rd-year Otago University design students have come up with an illustration for Otago’s Disability Support Services, featuring an image of a man in a ‘wire-frame’ wheelchair, with the caption “see me for me, not my wheels”. They say: We tend to see someone in a wheelchair, for example, and allow their disability to colour our perception of them as a person. It is presented in a way that creates empathy instead of avoidance of

Over 2000 people viewed the exhibition in Whangarei, which explored the oft-unexplored connection between disability and sexuality. The Tiaho Trust received overwhelming positive feedback from the public with comments such as: “One of the best and most thought provoking exhibitions I have ever seen, Touching, moving and inspiring” “Well done for leading out on such a beautiful exhibition” “A wonderful, insightful exhibition, the written stories beside the photos gave a good insight into the subjects, their life and challenges, highly

A really good read, this is. While Philip was over in the UK, he took time out of his busy schedule to chat to the BBC’s disability-focused website, Ouch! Here’s a selection of what he had to say, or click here for all 13 probing questions! My favourite food is … Baked beans on toast. I love being in England because you can get beans with everything. What is still to do? My goal in the next 10 years is

The internationally acclaimed art exhibition, “Intimate Encounters: Disability and Sexuality”, is coming to New Zealand! The exhibition, two years in the making, is a collection of works by photographer Belinda Mason-Lovering, who travelled across Australia, turning ordinary disabled people’s lives, dreams and desires into these wonderful images. Described as “An exhibition that will challenge archaic perceptions that disabled people can’t or shouldn’t enjoy healthy sexual lives.”, by Tiaho Trust CEO Johnny Wilkinson, it’s shaping up as a showcase not to

Wishful thinking, or a David vs Goliath story in the making? Any way you look at it, I’d be eternally grateful if you clicked on the image to the left and voted for walkingisoverrated.com in the blog category of this year’s Netguide Web Awards! I know this isn’t as long-established or mainstream as other blogs but I believe it has the potential to create powerful and positive social change, not something many blogs can lay claim to! So take 30

Our good friends over at the Tiaho Trust have begun advertising for an ICT Support Person on their website. The role will be based in Northland, offer a competitive renumeration package, and you’ll get to work with an awesome organisation like the Tiaho Trust! They say: Tiaho Trust is seeking a vibrant person to participate in the implementation of our ‘Empowerment Online’ project. This project aims to encourage, facilitate and support disabled people throughout Northland to have access to and

The Cerebral Palsy Society currently have a great story up on their site written by one of their members, Lynn Slade, on her experience of a P&O cruise from a wheelchair user’s perspective. I didn’t even know you could take wheelchairs on cruises, much less bulky power ones, but from what Lynn is reporting it sounds like a wonderful experience! She says: P&O have a few wheelchair accessible cabins but it does pay to book early. Ours was excellent. It

Whenever I check my site stats, nearly half of the searches which led to my site have some sort of pornography aspect to them, (for example: “disabled sex”, “amputee porn”, “naked disabled woman”) and I’m beginning to wonder what the deal is with all these people coming to this site looking for disability-related smut?! Is it genuine curiosity with the sexual dimensions of those with an impairment? Is it a perverse fascination? Or is it just representative of the claim

Really interesting post over at the Capabilities Blog, where the spotlight is on the recently-completed Riverton viewing platform, which has in fact just been awarded “Highly Commended” at the Carter Holt Harvey Timber Design Awards 2007. The catch is, it doesn’t comply with the access provisions of the building code, and in fact the wheelchair ramp doesn’t even go all the way to the top of the platform! They [Southland District Council] argue that they granted a building consent with