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Accessibility of events
The Culture for All (Kulttuuria kaikille) service’s website gathers loads of information about accessibility. It has a wide variety of information about different aspects of accessibility, and you can start to learn about the topic, for example, from this page: What is accessibility? (Culture for All). There are also many guides and checklists to see if you have forgotten something: Accessibility checklists (Culture for All).
Invalidiliitto (the Finnish Association of People with Physical Disabilities) has compiled various accessibility survey forms and checklists on its website. The forms and checklists have been developed by different organisations, and most of them have been made for a specific situation or a particular need: Accessibility checklists (Invalidiliitto) (in Finnish).
Accessibility dictionary (Esteettömyyssanakirja): accessibility dictionary on the Helsinki for All website (in Finnish)
Reading recommendations
Theory and non-fiction
- Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, Melanie Yergeau
- Crip Authorship: Disability as Method, ed. Mara Mills & Rebecca Sanchez
- Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid, Shayda Kafai
- Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, Robert McRuer
- Crip Times, Robert McRuer
- The Disability Studies Reader, ed. Lennard J. Davis
- Feminist Disability Studies, ed. Kim Q. Hall
- Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer
- The Right To Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir K. Puar
- Suuri valhe vammaisuudesta, Riikka Leinonen & Sofia Tawast (in Finnish)
- Unmasking Autism: The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity, Devon Price
- Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Essay collections
- Disability Visibility, ed. Alice Wong
- Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, Eli Clare
Fiction and memoir
- The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde (memoir)
- Dirty River, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (biography, memoir)
Poetry
- Body Map, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Articles
- ’An ill day can still be a good day’: 10 ways to live well with long Covid and chronic illness, Frances Ryan, The Guardian
- How Disabled Mutual Aid is Different Than Abled Mutual Aid, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva
- Six Ways Of Looking at Crip Time, Ellen Samuels
- Crip Theory: A Useful Tool for Social Analysis, Mikael Mery Karlsson & Jens Rydström
Things to listen to
Did you know that the Accessibility Library Celia offers free audio books for people who have difficulties with reading, for example because of dyslexia, disability, long-term illness or mental health reasons? Celia’s book collection boasts more than 40,000 talking books, which may be borrowed free of charge by all users with a print disability. Books in Braille, electronic books as well as tactile and picture books are also available. Contact your closest library to learn more. Read more about Celia and sign up: Sign up for Celia.
Podcasts
- The Vammaiskultti podcast (in Finnish) is free for everyone to listen to on Yle Areena.
- The Vammaiset tytöt podcast (in Finnish) can be listened to on Spotify even without a paid account.
- Pinja Eskola’s Rampaseksiä podcast (in Finnish) is also available on Spotify.
Audio books
Suuri valhe vammaisuudesta by Riikka Leinonen and Sofia Tawast (in Finnish) is available for free at the Accessibility Library Celia and for a fee at least on the Storytel audiobook app.
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer can be found at least on Storytel.
There seem to be many other books about disability available on Storytel, but we haven’t (yet) read them Celia, on the other hand, has more content in Finnish, for example interesting-looking books on the history of the disability movement.
Things to watch
Netflix
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, American documentary film from 2020
- Special, series: “a distinctive and uplifting new lgbtq series about a gay man, Ryan, with mild cerebral palsy who decides to rewrite his identity and finally go after the life he wants to live” (Wikipedia)
Viaplay
- Everything’s gonna be okay, series: “Nicholas, an Australian in his twenties, visits his American father and two teenage half-sisters in Los Angeles. During his visit, he learns that their father is terminally ill and wants Nicholas to become the guardian to Genevieve and Matilda, because their mother is already dead.” (Wikipedia) #lgbtq #disability #neurodiversity
Social media
- nina_tame
- sitting_pretty
- tajutonmarja
- autistinainen
- finneganshann0n
- ablezine
- _cripple_
- asickmagazine
- invalid_art
- bed_zine
- youlookokaytome
- blackkrip
- keah_maria
- miamingus
- crutches_and_spice
- leahlakshmiwrites
- drdevonprice
- myfragileself
- sick_comrade