A few years ago, I saw a segment on the TV news magazine show 60 Minutes. In brief, it was about how an advertising campaign finally ended the Columbian civil war. At that moment, a lightbulb went on in my head. It made me think of marketing and advertising and the power of those mediums in a whole new way related to disability. And from there, Love Disabled Life was born.
Read MoreYou have probably noticed in posts throughout my Love Disabled Life blog that I often write "disabled people" rather than "people with disabilities." This is known as "identity-first" language and not "person-first" language. Identity-first language embraces disability as the identity of who a person is. The same as a person would do if they were referring to themselves racially or ethnically.
Read MoreThis is the question I'm asking myself: do you have a pride movement without a society asserting (in overt and subtle ways) that you have nothing to be proud of? Did the disability pride movement evolve out of a genuine place of self-love and self-acceptance? Or rather, out of protests by disabled people to prove they have worth in a world that can't begin to understand what that worth could be?
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