Disability Blog Carnival #14 is up NOW!

In the wake of the second annual Blogging Against Disablism Day, were there enough posts left to make a worthwhile carnival? The answer is a resounding yes, and then some--there's plenty of disability blogging to go around, and Blue at The Gimp Parade whipped up an excellent edition around the subject of "Firsts"--go, click, learn, you won't leave hungry.

Next carnival (#15) is scheduled to post on May 24, at Ryn Tales, where the invited theme for the edition is "Disability & Family." So many possibilities there--write a post, or recommend someone else's. Submit it for consideration through blogcarnival.com, or leave it in a comment, or email it. The deadline will be Monday, May 21.

New logo at left: A black-and-white image of a forbidding-looking hospital, with the words "Disability Blog Carnival" and "can't shut us up now" superimposed in bright-yellow, scrawly type. The hospital here is the North Wales Hospital in Denbigh, which has a good historical society website--complete with the stories of former patients (read about Martha Ann Pickin [1882-1944], for example, who was institutionalized soon after giving birth to her son), a photo gallery, and a forum for former patients and employees seeking each other. This logo was made in an effort to make a logo that represents mental/cognitive/developmental/emotional disabilities better than some of our past logos. (Blue has also been working on making logos. You can too! Give it a try.)

And again, big thanks to all who participate, either by writing posts, recommending posts, reading and commenting on posts, linking to the carnival, or hosting an edition.