by Belo Cipriani | Jan 14, 2015 | Adaptive Technology, Interviews, Writing
Today on The Disability Tribune we welcome author, artist, poet and essayist Ashok Rajamani, author of the memoir The Day My Brain Exploded: A True Story, which chronicles a near-fatal cerebral hemorrhagic stroke he suffered at the age of 25, leaving him with bisected...
by Belo Cipriani | Oct 15, 2014 | Interviews, Writing
Today on The Disability Tribune, we welcome award-winning poet, activist, and arts educator Meg Day, who has a new collection of poetry that just hit the shelves called Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street Press, 2014). She is also the Poetry Editor for Quarterly...
by Belo Cipriani | Oct 7, 2014 | Belo Cipriani, Midday Dreams, Writing
I was 16 years old when I happened to find an Amália Rodrigues CD accidentally nestled between Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn at Tower Records in San Jose. The guy at the music store didn’t know who she was and was about to take the CD from me when I realized the...
by Belo Cipriani | Aug 13, 2014 | Adaptive Technology, Interviews, Mobility/ Disability, Writing
Today on The Disability Tribune we welcome chef and writer Christine Ha, who was the first blind contestant on Fox’s reality cooking show MasterChef, and the winner of its third season in 2012. She is also the author of the cookbook Recipes from My Home Kitchen:...
by Belo Cipriani | Jul 23, 2014 | Belo Cipriani, Writing
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...
by Belo Cipriani | Jun 18, 2014 | Adaptive Technology, Employment, Mobility/ Disability, Writing
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...
