I am a disability travel blogger who takes road trips all over the country, and as such having a reliable wheelchair accessible van is essential for me. In 2019 my father and I were sold a van with a defective VMI Ricon Slide-Away lift by the Mobility Van Store of Lakeland, Florida. It has cost…
It’s impossible to miss The Archway museum, a.k.a. the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument, when traveling on the I-80 through Kearney, Nebraska. You seem to be in the middle of nowhere, when suddenly a huge wooden structure spans the highway. Signs exhort you to take the next exit and visit, but offer little explanation of what can…
The Coney Island sideshow revitalizes the traditions of circus arts and burlesque with innovative, disability-positive performances Side show. Those two words conjure up images of a kitschy relic of times past, with a fast-talking barker conning circus patrons to hand over their dimes and enter a seedy tent full of animal and human oddities. The…
Broadway was once a very rich, white, straight world. Despite the many gay men in theater throughout history, until recently, the majority of musicals have reinforced the values of a white male, hetero-normative society. It’s only been in the past few decades that more diverse voices have really been heard, that realistic stories of strong…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Crowne Plaza in Englewood, New Jersey violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to guarantee my wheelchair accessible room reservation, and they still haven’t fixed the problem.” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Arimo%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text] Open Letter to IHG Hotels (Owners of Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn) Dear Management of the IHG Hotels group, My name is…
