Crippen's Blog
Step into the irreverent world of disabled cartoonist Crippen aka Dave Lupton, who has been in the vanguard of disability arts movement for more years than he cares to mention. His work has appeared in mainstream press, on TV and film and is now probably the best Disabled cartoonist in the world!
Crippen reports on his recent visit to the Arts and Disability Forum, Belfast
If like me, you've never visited Northern Ireland, take my advice and go there immediately! I arrived at Belfast's International terminal to discover an oasis...Comments: 0
Crippen receives a request for a labelling cartoon from Australia
I've recently received an email from a Disabled equality trainer in Australia asking if she could use some of my cartoons about labelling within her courses. She hadn't come across the concept before...Comments: 7
Crippen shares some thoughts and poetry from Deaf Bitch
I’ve had some correspondence recently with a colleague known in crip circles as Deaf Bitch. Her shared insights into Deaf culture have helped me to understand a great deal about the many forms...Comments: 5
Crippen hears from a mental health system survivor about 'safe and well' checks
It's not unexpected that people who experience severe mental distress generally find night times the worst time to be alone. This is compounded by mental health trusts not being required to have any...Comments: 9
Crippen takes a cynical look at the change of language
Has anyone else noticed that having adopted our social model language, the big charities and government departments have started to twist the wording around so that the 'problem' is back with us...Comments: 11
Crippen exposes the first hurdle in the tendering for social care process
All this business about opening the tendering process for Social Care Commissioning to groups and organisations of Disabled people has brought in some interesting mails from fellow crips who have...Comments: 6
Crippen looks at the changes of attitude being made towards User led Organisations
Sometimes when an old cynic like me thinks we are not making any progress and there’s too much of the same-old, same-old, I get a dig in the ribs and a reminder that us crips do occasionally...Comments: 9
Crippen is asked to look back over his work during 2009.
Our esteemed Editor Colin has invited the dao bloggers to look back over the past year and highlight some of the events that have crossed our keyboards. Never one to stick to a brief and usually...Comments: 5
Crippen looks at the gatekeeping imposed by some disability professionals
Having been in a similiar situation myself, I empathised with an email I received the other day relating a story about a sadistic Occupational Therapist (OT). The bottom line was that the crip in...Comments: 6