New Job!

After two interviews and a lot of nervousness, I have officially been offered a position with the United Way of London Middlesex as their new Community Mobilizer! This is a full time, permanent position working with the Community Outreach team on youth leadership programs and opportunities. I don’t think “dream job” even begins to describe… Continue reading New Job!

A mini-vacation

Clara and I decided to have a last minute escape from the city and head for cottage country to visit my parents and pick up puppy Kirzweil this weekend. Sometimes I forget how quiet and relaxing it is in Port Elgin, but I have to say Clara and I definitely enjoyed sitting in my parents… Continue reading A mini-vacation

A Door All Our Own

This comic is dedicated to National Accessibility Awareness Week here in Canada. Did you know it was National Accessibility Awareness Week? Glad to know you’re aware of the awareness. To celebrate this momentous holiday, and our first month of comics, we are holding our first ever CRIPZ CONTEST!! How does it work? Simple. We will ask… Continue reading A Door All Our Own

Make Yourself Miserable or Make Yourself Useful

“The truth is, if I actually spent my days actively paying attention to every example of misogyny around me, I would be a profoundly unhappy woman. Not bitchy or grumpy or short-tempered, but paralyzingly depressed. Women have to train themselves to avoid consciously reacting to every bit of misogynistic detritus permeating the culture through which… Continue reading Make Yourself Miserable or Make Yourself Useful

Wheelchair, engage!

Wheelchair controls come in all shapes and sizes. My electric chair is controlled through a pretty traditional joystick system, but I have friends who control their chairs with things like sensors on their headrest or a straw that controls the chair through blows and sucks. But apparently the people at MIT are working on a… Continue reading Wheelchair, engage!

Hulk SMASH!!

The subject of disabled characters and able-bodied actors has been coming up again and again over the past few days so Clara and I decided to do a little comic about Glee and our feelings on most movies involving characters with disabilities. This episode is dedicated to Cherylee Houston, a disabled actress who plays the “feisty new girlfriend”… Continue reading Hulk SMASH!!

A Special Announcement

From the moment I was diagnosed at 3 months old with Congenital, Muscular Dystrophy my parents raised me to be a fighter. While my parents acknowledged there would be challenges, they truly believed life with a disability did not have to be a life of no ability. It is because of their undying support that I have… Continue reading A Special Announcement