Welcome to Disability Blog Carnival #9. I guess that makes me your carnie (although I feel compelled to point out that I have more teetth and smell a lot better than your typical carnie). The theme for this particular collection is “employment”. Let’s get started. Remember to keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times. <\/p>\n
David at Growing Up with a Disability describes the typical workday of Chris<\/a>, who is employed full-time as a mail clerk. And Wheelchair Dancer considers and declines an opportunity to show some skin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Both Seahorse<\/a> and Wheelchair Princess<\/a> blog about the difficulties of finding work that is both fulfilling and flexible. And meanwhile, over at One Smoot Short of a Bridge<\/a>, we are reminded that discrimination can be found in the most innocuous practices (like background checks). Interroblog writes about discrimination<\/a> from a more institutional perspective.<\/p>\n Disgruntled Ladye<\/a> blogs about the clueless reactions she receives from work colleagues who make assumptions about her medical condition. Speaking of clueless, Wheelie Catholic had a recent encounter with a child and her woefully uninformed mother<\/a>. <\/p>\n The proprietor of BlindConfidential<\/a> writes about his new radio gig, the first show of which will focus on web accessibility. And NPR rock star<\/a> Stephen Kuusisto meditates on the cultural role of the uppity gimp<\/a> (my words, not his).<\/p>\n Dave at Chewing the Fat explains why he loves working in the disability field<\/a>. Kestrell begins the first part of her series on disability and participatory culture<\/a>. <\/p>\n Simi Linton of Disability Culture Watch<\/a> reviews the bestseller The Memory Keeper’s Daughter<\/i>. And finally, Manxome writes a moving eulogy to her uncle<\/a>. <\/p>\n Many of the blogs cited here are new to the scene, so let their authors know you like and want to see more of their work. I want to thank everyone who submitted as well as Penny for giving me the opportunity to host. And don’t forget to keep visiting this site to read all about the sordid goings-on here at The 19th Floor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to Disability Blog Carnival #9. I guess that makes me your carnie (although I feel compelled to point out that I have more teetth and smell a lot better than your typical carnie). The theme for this particular collection is “employment”. Let’s get started. Remember to keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-o8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}