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Blue Mound State Park, Wisconsin

Tales from the Trails: Blue Mound State Park near Madison, Wisconsin offers accessible camping and swimming.

October 17, 2018 0

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Had a great time recording an advocacy video about disability and the outdoors with @rootedinrights today! . . [Image descriptions: 1) photo is taken from behind a camera pointed at Syren sitting on log, looking at a script in their hands. The camera displays the same image. 2) Syren sits on a log, smiling at the camera with their head tilted.]

Being able to express yourself through style is a privilege. . I realize this might be an unpopular opinion. But if you're disabled and can't find clothing that meets your adaptive or sensory needs or don't have the spoons to coordinate an outfit, fat and can't find clothing in your size, trans or gender nonconforming and don't feel safe dressing as your gender, or poor and can't afford anything other than thrift store finds and hand me downs, then expressing your style is not an option. . This applies to outdoor clothing and appearance as well, perhaps especially so, given the cost and extremely limited options in outdoor apparel. . Let's keep style and personal expression in perspective, as another factor in social oppression/privilege. Always ask yourself who can't do this, and why. . Inage description: Syren wears a hooded rain jacket on a foggy coast, A-Ka-Lat (an island) in the background on Quileute land.

Web Designer/Developer Wanted! Disabled Hikers has big plans for the next year, and the website needs a redesign to accomplish our goals. Plans include: an active blog, an easier way to submit trail guides, and an overall more efficient, accessible, clean design. The site will become a hub for building community. . Payment: I do not currently have the funds to pay a designer. I acknowledge that this is work and should be compensated, and I want to be able to pay a disabled web person, but I can't guarantee it. If you are disabled and open to negotiating something, please DM or email. . Non-disabled people who can do this work on a volunteer basis are also welcome to get in touch. . If you would like to contribute funds towards building a community-based website, paypal @disabledhikers . . [Image description: a starry background with rays of light at the top. Text reads WEB DESIGNER WANTED disabledhikers.com]

International Day of People with Disabilities/Disabled Peoples Day was December 3rd. There has been a lot of chat in the disability community about how the day (and Disability History Month in October) is overlooked by non-disabled people. . It's not unusual, exactly. Days recognizing a marginalized community are often ignored by other people (with the exception of events that have become coopted by capitalism). And for sure, IDPWD has some critiques in the disability community. . But it shouldn't be that way. Disability exists in every community, and anyone can become disabled at any time. Ableism effects everyone in the drive to produce and perform. It is in everyone's best interest to erase ableism and create a more accessible, welcoming world. . But that isn't the only reason non-disabled people should care. Disabled people deserve to recognized, celebrated, and cared for, for no other reason than we exist... just as all life deserves to be celebrated for existing. Yet that seldom happens. . If you are an abled person, and particularly if you have other marginalized identities, please think about how you recognize and care for disabled people. (I think it hurts the most to be ignored by other marginalized communities... like I expect it from white, wealthy, thin, straight cis people). Celebrate us and care about how ableism impacts our lives. We are all in this together. . (It took me like an hour to write this through thick brain fog, so please recognize the spirit of this post rather than nitpick details) . ID in alt text

What do you love about the Place where you live? Big or small, majestic or minute, what helps you feel connected with the land? . One of my favorite things is watching clouds blow in from the coast and build against the mountains, turning into rivers of air as they slowly crest then cascade down the folds of the mountains' face. This place where mountains meet the sea creates endlessly fascinating patterns. . This photo is also something that I love. A plant stalk lays on a snowy table, the tips encased in ice so that the stalk looks like an ice flower. Snow capped mountains are in the background. This was taken at Hurricane Ridge, @olympic_nps , S'Klallam and Twana/Skokomish land. The view is accessible from the parking lot. . . #DisabledHikers #LoveYourPlace

I absolutely believe in the natural beauty of disability, and the power of recognizing our bodyminds as a part of the interconnected whole that is "nature." Its why I do this work. . But I haven't always been, and am not always now, proud to be disabled. There are a lot of days spent like this: pain, fatigue, depression, anxiety wrestling in my body and mind. Days spent feeling incredibly isolated and hopeless, where the whole world seems to be rushing past without you; angry at a world that seems not to care. . There are lessons about the power of slowing down, about the role of pulling in and moving outward, about how sick the rest of the world actually is and how much the drive to produce influences us all. But it can be hard to accept those lessons when you're suffering. . However you feel about disability is valid. Whatever emotion you experience about being sick is valid. You don't have to be inspirational or motivational. . Let's also stop judging people by what it seems like they are, or are not, accomplishing. You can't know what their daily life is like, and their diagnoses are none of your business. . ID in alt text

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