by Belo Cipriani | May 7, 2014 | Adaptive Technology, Americans with Disabilities Act, Belo Cipriani, Blind Technology, Employment, Writing
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...
by Belo Cipriani | Apr 30, 2014 | Writing
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...
by Belo Cipriani | Apr 9, 2014 | Interviews, Writing
The Disability Tribune welcomes fiction writer Johnathan Wilber, a graduate of the MFA fiction program at Columbia and the author of Out, Beelzebub!. Johnathan is currently working on his second novel. Belo Cipriani: You have a writing degree from Columbia University....
by Belo Cipriani | Sep 29, 2011 | Belo Cipriani, Blind: A Memoir, GLBT, Lambda Literary Fellowship, Queer Writing, Writing
As a fan of Octavia Butler, Mary Shelly, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker and Ray Bradbury, I sought shelter in science-fiction and gothic novels that made it easier to fantasize outside the hetero world. These authors made it possible for me to write stories that challenged...
