Blog Recommendation: Check Out 'DisabilityRightNow' Right Now!

This is a post I meant to do a couple months ago.

Part of what we try to do with this blog is to steer folks to great blogs on disability and especially to specific writings on NDY-related topics.

There's a new blog in town (not as new as it was a couple months ago) that anyone who wants to check out some great writing on disability - whether NDY-related or not - should bookmark.

DisabilityRightNow is a group effort.  Here's a short description of the blog from the blog's 'About Us, Not Without Us' section:

DisabilityRightNow is a collaborative blogging effort among members of the disability community.  We come from a plethora of different backgrounds, races, ages, gender identities, and sexual orientations.  This blog is our attempt to keep our (crip-tastic) fingers on the pulse of disability issues, and provide a place where people, disabled or not, can go to learn about these relevant issues in our community.

Please visit the 'About Us, Not Without Us' section for bios of all of the writers on the blog. The bloggers are artists, activists, scholars, poets and writers.  Anything any one of these writers publishes is well worth the time to read.

Among other disability-related topics, the blog has featured a lot of posts on NDY-related topics.  Titles and links below - from oldest to newest:

• We Will Not Be Silenced
• Memes, Culture, and Death of People With Disabilities
• Representations of "Mercy Killing"
• Vigil Report: Virtual Vigil and Boston
• Poems by Meg Mertens
• Murder, Not Mercy
• Cultural Violence and People with Disabilities
• A Look At the Proper Use of Services for an Autistic Child (Op Ed)
• Live Inexpensively or Die
• The Debate About Euthanasia
• Legality of Euthanasia in The Netherlands
• Photos and Video - Vigil for George: Union Square, NYC (March 30, 2012)
• Brutality: Poem by Erin Lewy
• The Death of Al Bing
• Reader Responses: #VigilForGeorge Blog Event

That's 15 posts - and it's a conservative count, since there are several others that could arguably fit in here.  But don't take my word - go check out the blog right now (no pun intended).  --Stephen Drake