Disability, Words, Interest Group NPYM AS 2021

Courage in the face of Fear: 

Faith, hope, love--and a Disability words Grab Bag

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This post is RantWoman's official discernment sandbox in preparation for NPYM Annual Session 2021. RantWoman is still seeking Light as to which topics need to be tended in this year's interest groups. After some introductory details, RantWoman present several ideas. This post will be subject to updates

Join the Interest Group at the scheduled times 

Disability Words Interest Group

Meeting ID: 914 8873 3885  Passcode: 7151961

If you have access needs, please leave a comment. RantWoman will do the best she and .. can do to tend to them.

RantWoman is also seeking one or two Friends willing to serve as elder for each session. For anyone unfamiliar with the concept please leave a comment and RantWoman will offer additional information.

RantWoman invites Friends to attend one of three interest groups at NPYM Annual Session that will have something to do with disability: Also if Friends see a topic you consider important but think there is no way ...you would ever discuss it in an interest group led by RantWoman, please consider asking Ministry and Counsel for options.

Topics RantWoman is trying to choose among

Modern lingo in the workplace and beyond

Disability and Parenting

What would YOU want to know about the White Cane Law

If you were going to teach a law school course on disability law what would you include and why? This is a serious question a blind law professor posed recently in one of RantWoman's weekly Zoom hangouts

Accessibility quest for world domination: why fixing sidewalks might be as important in fighting climate change as worrying too much about...

Ripped from the headlines

#FreeBritney

Naomi Osaka and the press

#AccessiBe and why you shouldn't leave website accessibility up to one blind guy and some AI voodoo

Voting and accessibility

Digesting the indigestible: 

both RantWoman blogs have numerous items that talk about accessibility. Use the search bar. If something catches your fancy...

Accessibility, Inclusion, publishing and the Internet age

The importance of International law including CRPD, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, The Marrakech treaty...

Association of Bad Friends Options

(The Association of Bad Friends is a Facebook group. If it were a Yearly Meeting, it would be one of the largest in North America)

For Friends discerning about whether to throw up their hands and join the Association of Bad Friends, or just to go take a nap or stare into something beautiful in nature, brave space where Friends are willing to risk vulnerability, eldering, and being offended.

Ableism Bananagrams

Microaggression Bingo

Oppression Olympics

Word-choice apoplexy for the metaphor-challenged as well as anyone who can't make up their mind whether it should be for instance "person with deafness" or "Deaf person," "disAbility" or "diffAbility." Special sections for "Not Blind Enough," "Not deaf Enough..."