Disability Reality Television

Hellooooooo There Everyone. 

Seems I was missing for a few months on here: but truth be told, I became addicted to instagram.  (follow me @charlietreehouse) 

This month's comic was inspired by the different realities of people living with and without disabilities,  (ab=able bodied.) in changing rooms.  I don't know about you, but trying on clothes is something I almost dread, depending on how much physical assistance I am having.  Trying on, getting dressed over and over is physically exhausting, so I rarely partake.  Once I get dressed it's pretty much over for me for the whole day, I'm wearing the outfit.  (of course that is not to say that I never change, something may be impossible to live with for any numerous amount of reasons) It seems to me, from observations of AB people my entire life, and in the culture of bodily perfection I've become witness, that many AB people change there outfits multiple times per day.  Sometimes I think of the amount of time and effort it would take me personally to change clothes the same amount of times the average, and then shake my head, "no way".   

Security! Security! Grab that girl!

[Image: Colorful picture of a girl in a wheelchair being pushed through airport security with other passengers waiting in line behind all staring at the girl being pushed.  Security officer asks, "Can she walk through the body scanner". ]

Ok, so I've been on a short hiatus, well one month, sorry about that.  It's been a crazy adventure and I was able to travel from Texas to Atlanta to present SuperCripComic at the Critical Juncture Conference at Emory University.  It was awesome getting to share my comic with new people, and meet some readers.

If you can't tell, I was inspired by my trip in this Issue of SuperCrip.  Airports are certainly not the friendliest or most accessible places for people with disability, with some airports better than others *cough* (Atlanta)

It is not the question the security officer asks, but rather who he asks the question too.  Some people who use wheelchairs maybe able to take a few steps "through the scanner", but they can also most likely find appreciation of being addresses like a normal person.  This erasure of individual happens in conjunction of being the "spectacle" in the line, that no one can take there eyes off.

FOOOTBALLLLL!

Gopher Got Loose

New Year Resolutions

Happy New Year Everyone!

I thought it was the appropriate time of year to talk about disability and exercise with all the talk of year Resolutions that everyone seems to make.  I haven't actually made any, but I do hope to be more organized and plan to figure out my goals for my comic and other art projects.  I'm excited for 2013.  "make it rain"!