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Writing Inspiration: Discovering the Muse in Your City
Most of my recent writing has happened in the city due to travel, teaching, and other time constraints. When I told my students, they struggled to believe that I got the ideas for my essays and fiction from a metropolitan area. They assumed that I — like many writers...
Carried Away: Helping the Blind with Mobility
I hate my white cane and although I had given it a name to help me bond with it, Raising Cane was getting on my nerves. He refused to walk a straight line and insisted on greeting all the cracks and bumps along 14th Street. However, I reminded myself about how much my...
An Interview with San Francisco’s Circle of Life Theatre
This week on The Disability Tribune, we're pleased to feature an interview with Fritz Lambandrake, executive director of San Francisco's Circle of Life Theatre. From their website: Circle of Life Theatre is the West Coast’s ONLY theatre company intentionally casting...
Disability Journalist Robert Kingett’s Chicago Tribune Interview
Today on The Disability Tribune, we are excited to share a guest post written by disability journalist Robert Kingett. The paratransit driver lurches to a stop outside the Tribune Towers in downtown Chicago, but I don't hear the driver bark my name because I am deep...
Reinventing Yourself: How to Plan for a Reset
As a child, one of my most frustrating moments came when Mario froze mid-jump. Just as I was about to avoid the last fiery ball in the concrete castle to save Princess Peach, the game suspended, and no amount of punishing to the red and black buttons made the action...
On Positive Gay Role Models: An Interview with David-Elijah Nahmod
The Disability Tribune is pleased to bring you an interview with film critic and writer David-Elijah Nahmod. Belo Cipriani: Who was the first gay person you looked up to and why? David-Elijah Nahmod: Quentin Crisp. Born in England in 1908, Crisp coined the phrase...
An Interview with Blind Institute of Technology CEO Mike Hess
The Disability Tribune is stoked to bring you an interview with Mike Hess, the CEO and Founder of the Blind Institute of Technology. Belo Cipriani: What is your background and why did you establish the Blind Institute of Technology? Mike Hess: An English proverb...
Traveling with a Disability: The Applause
I buckled my seatbelt and reached toward the floor to caress Madge’s velvety ears. The flight attendants began to voice the emergency exits and I could feel the plane slightly glide up and down, reminding me we were actually moving. The ticket agent instantly fell in...
Hiring Blind: Taking Adaptive Technology to Job Interviews
It was never tough for me to get a job when I was sighted. Even when I got laid-off from a start-up after the Dot Com bust, I was hired as a bartender, with no experience, at the first club I walked into with my pink slip. As a college student, I worked at a payroll...
On Writing Lyrics and Poetry with Musician Trent Park
The Disability Tribune is excited to share a post from singer Trent Park. If you haven’t listened to this soulful artist, I highly encourage you to download his music today. I am contributing this writing not in expertise, but in knowing that to become a writer you...