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Celebrating Jae Casper

By Sarah Quinto Image: Jae Casper, smiling, with theatre posters in the background. Their shirt reads: “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” Audre Lorde And they are wearing a Zelda hat. Jae Casper passed away in May of this year and it’s been hard to eulogize them in a way that does justice toContinue reading “Celebrating Jae Casper”

Posted bySarah QuintoJuly 16, 2021July 16, 2021Posted inBLOG

Learn about visitability

Visitability is the idea that all new housing has basic accessibility features.

Posted bySarah QuintoJuly 17, 2020July 17, 2020Posted inBLOG

How Crip Chick changed me

A smiling Stacey Park holding a black and white sign that says “CHERISHED.” This image is attributed to Max Airborne.

Our disabled lives are bigger, fuller, messier, uglier and more beautiful than we ever imagined. Stacey gave me this. She gave me a vision of what was available to me, through finding my people.

Posted bySarah QuintoMay 20, 2020July 30, 2020Posted inBLOGTags:mutual aid, shameLeave a comment on How Crip Chick changed me

#COVID-19 Mutual Aid Project

The DisQuake Mutual Aid Project operated for 4 months and is no longer active. Be well, friends.

Posted bySarah QuintoMarch 28, 2020August 5, 2020Posted inBLOG, COVID-19

Fountaingrove Fire House Remodel Is Good News

Building a fire station under the assumption that disabled people do not need full access is incorrect.

Posted bySarah QuintoNovember 18, 2015July 17, 2020Posted inBLOGTags:ADA, Fountaingrove, Santa Rosa

ADA Celebration Sonoma County

Celebrating 25 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Posted bySarah QuintoJuly 9, 2015July 17, 2020Posted inBLOG

Personhood

prosthetic arm drawing with added color

The quality or condition of being a person, personhood is concerned with what constitutes a person. There are implications for abortion, stem-cell research, euthanasia, legal rights, and artificial intelligence.

Posted bySarah QuintoMay 31, 2015July 5, 2021Posted inTheories and Models2 Comments on Personhood

Not to be scared

Lorili

Normal is to take care of people.

Posted bySarah QuintoMay 28, 2015July 6, 2021Posted inIndependent Living Model, What is Normal?

The typical existing situation

I personally define normal as the typical existing situation in the context of society as a whole and whatever the majority deems to be acceptable. — Dylan Theoretical Models Ecological and Community Based Theory: Idea that society determines the concept of normal.

Posted bySarah QuintoMay 26, 2015July 6, 2021Posted inEcological Contextual Community Based Theory, What is Normal?

Sociocultural Model of Impairment-Disability

Hands in a spiral facing inward. Colorful and stunning. Likely taken in India.

The sociocultural model views human experience as a product of culture and ideas. Disability in this model appears as an interaction between certain impaired bodies and their surrounding cultural environment.

Posted bySarah QuintoMay 11, 2015July 17, 2020Posted inTheories and Models5 Comments on Sociocultural Model of Impairment-Disability

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