Owner: Crip's Column URL:http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/crips-column Join Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:40:00 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: View from my wheelchair - Victoria Brignell on life as a disabled person. Site statistics:Click here
Venerate me and I'll run you over 2007-03-13 01:00:00 Victoria muses about the treatment of disabled people in 17th century Spain as recorded by the artist Velazquez and draws comparison with the present day
Air travel 2007-02-21 01:00:00 How the environment has benefited from Brignell's Rule
A load of old cobbles 2007-01-25 01:00:00 How Victoria came to know every single bump in Cambridge
Holocaust 2007-01-12 01:00:00 Victoria pays tribute to the 200,000 disabled slaughtered by the Nazis Read more:Holocaust
Who do you think I am? 2006-12-08 01:00:00 Our latter day Anthony Blunt examines her double life Read more:think
Physical challenges 2007-04-05 02:00:00 Being disabled hardly keeps many people from beating records, engaging in extreme sports and completing other equally notable feats
Bizarre comments 2007-05-08 02:00:00 Some strange things get said to people with disabilities. Here Victoria Brignell gives us her top 12 weird remarks Read more:Bizarre
Anniversary 2008-03-04 18:00:00 Victoria Brignell celebrates her silver disability anniversary and explains why she wants to celebrate her 25 years as a "Crip." Read more:Anniversary
Architectural apartheid 2008-02-10 18:00:00 With a combination of careful thought, determination and technical ingenuity, any building can be made accessible
Bureaucracy 2008-01-14 18:00:00 If you have a phobia of forms, I recommend you don’t become severely disabled
Cripsmas 2007-12-17 18:00:00 For us crips Christmas isn’t exactly a time of undiluted joy and pleasure
Terminology 2007-11-19 18:00:00 Victoria Brignell takes us on a trip across the often controversial territory of language and disability
Envying the Daleks 2007-09-11 19:00:00 In her latest column, Victoria Brignell mourns the hours that pass without the beloved Doctor who may be an example for us all and reveals how she envies the Daleks
Being tetraplegic isn't a lifestyle choice 2007-08-07 19:00:00 At a time when we are bombarded by news stories about the apparent breakdown of communities, my disability enables me to witness plentiful examples of people's thoughtfulness Read more:lifestyle
Hands off our parking bays 2007-07-15 19:00:00 If the police want to catch criminals, the best place to start looking could be disabled parking spaces Read more:Hands
Tip of the iceberg 2007-06-11 19:00:00 There's more to paralysis than not being able to move. Victoria reveals the hidden medical challenges faced by people with spinal injuries
Ancient world 2008-04-06 19:00:00 Smeared in mustard, paraded naked - the curious and often cruel treatment of disabled people in Ancient
Rome, Sparta and Greece
Sliding doors 2008-05-05 19:00:00 How much being disabled has altered the course of a life - Victoria Brignell ponders whether being in a wheelchair has actually made all that much difference... Read more:Sliding
Sliding doors 2008-05-05 19:00:00 How much being disabled has altered the course of a life - Victoria Brignell ponders whether being in a wheelchair has actually made all that much difference... Read more:Sliding
Ancient world 2008-04-06 19:00:00 Smeared in mustard, paraded naked - the curious and often cruel treatment of disabled people in Ancient
Rome, Sparta and Greece
Anniversary 2008-03-04 18:00:00 Victoria Brignell celebrates her silver disability anniversary and explains why she wants to celebrate her 25 years as a "Crip." Read more:Anniversary
Architectural apartheid 2008-02-10 18:00:00 With a combination of careful thought, determination and technical ingenuity, any building can be made accessible
Bureaucracy 2008-01-14 18:00:00 If you have a phobia of forms, I recommend you don’t become severely disabled
Cripsmas 2007-12-17 18:00:00 For us crips Christmas isn’t exactly a time of undiluted joy and pleasure
Terminology 2007-11-19 18:00:00 Victoria Brignell takes us on a trip across the often controversial territory of language and disability
Envying the Daleks 2007-09-11 19:00:00 In her latest column, Victoria Brignell mourns the hours that pass without the beloved Doctor who may be an example for us all and reveals how she envies the Daleks
Being tetraplegic isn't a lifestyle choice 2007-08-07 19:00:00 At a time when we are bombarded by news stories about the apparent breakdown of communities, my disability enables me to witness plentiful examples of people's thoughtfulness Read more:lifestyle
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