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Including Disability

@incldisability.bsky.social

“The preeminent international jamboree for disabled people.” – Dr. Paul Jaeger, Co-Chair and Co-Founder https://linktr.ee/includingdisability

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Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 4w ago

We are so excited for @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social 's first publication!

Disability Policy Foundry@disabilitypolicy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our very first @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social publication! In "The Inaccessible Cost of Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (WAVs): A Federal Tax Credit Solution," Carlos Gamez shares his policy idea: a refundable tax credit of $7,500 for the purchase of new qualified WAVs in the preceding tax year.

Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 4w ago

The idea: a refundable tax credit of $7,500 for the purchase of new qualified WAVs in the preceding tax year. Carlos writes, "True freedom of movement should not be contingent on navigating a bureaucratic maze or maintaining state-mandated poverty."

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excited to share the first @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social publication: "The Inaccessible Cost of Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (WAVs): A Federal Tax Credit Solution" by Carlos Gamez! www.disabilitypolicyfoundry.org/publications...

Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · last mo.

Produce Policy. Build Power. Happy Disability Pride Month! I'm excited to launch @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social in partnership with @incldisability.bsky.social. Disabled people are already policy experts. The Foundry helps develop, publish, & advance disability policy grounded in lived experience.

Light lavender promotional graphic for the Disability Policy Foundry. Black text reads: "The Disability Policy Foundry is a nontraditional space to develop, publish, and advance disability policy grounded in lived experience." Below, a purple rounded box with a disability pride lightbulb icon states: "If you're a disabled person with a policy idea, we want to hear from you! No formal credentials or prior publications required." The lower portion reads: "Visit our website or use the QR code to submit your ideas!" A QR code is on the right, and the website DisabilityPolicyFoundry.org with a link icon is at the bottom.

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · last mo.

We’re partnering with disabled policy expert @caseydoherty.bsky.social to launch the Disability Policy Foundry, a new nontraditional platform for developing, publishing, and advancing disability policy grounded in lived experience! @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social www.disabilitypolicyfoundry.org/home

Disability Policy Foundry

PRODUCE POLICY.

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Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Marcia Johnson is the journal liaison for Including Disability—and she just won a U Make a Mark award at Ontario Tech! That award recognizes staff and faculty who support, guide, and uplift the OT community, and we recognize her for supporting our comMOOnity! www.instagram.com/p/DYStW6UFFx...

Ontario Tech Campus Life on Instagram: "A big part of campus life is the people who help make it happen. 💙🧡 Today, we celebrated Ontario Tech’s annual employee awards ceremony, recognizing the staff ...

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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Paul shares, "These intertwined stories across decades are being shared in hopes of illuminating key commonalities and uniquenesses in the experience of disability across species, as well as the impacts of disability on shaping the behaviors of other members of a family, human and nonhuman."

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On this beautiful DC day, today’s #scholarcrip is my favorite journal article I have ever read.

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We’re out enjoying the warm spring weather and sniffing the flowers. Oh, wait… We have allergies…

A tan and brown two-headed cartoon cow stands in a cartoon field of pink and yellow flowers with bright green leaves. Their left head wears a pink and purple flower crown and is positioned to smell one of the flowers. The other head wears a pair of black sunglasses with no wings. We do not know how they stay on.

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 5mo ago

CowCow would like to remind you to sign up for our monthly-ish comMOOnity space! Register by scanning the QR code in the image or using the link in our bio!

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Journal articles, poems, videos, audio—you dream it, we might share it! All disability media types are welcome! –CowCow #IncludingDisability #DisabilityJustice #IDGS #Accessibility #Disability

A laptop sits open behind a notebook. A white person’s hand holds a red pen over the notebook. A cartoon tan and brown two-headed cow stands on the notebook. A quotation bubble over their heads reads “Looking for something to do on a rainy day? Submit something to Including Disability! We take all media formats!” The left head wears dark sunglasses, and the right head wears a pink and purple flower crown.

Studio Pacifica @studiopacifica.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today, we're adding some levity and love to your feed. What do you say— Wheel you be our Valentine? Choose your favorite and let someone special know your heart is fully accessible.

Teal text on a white background with a decorative border reads, "Wheel you be my Valentine?" An illustration shows a person using a wheelchair user. A Valentine sits in her lap.

Teal text on a white background with a decorative border reads, "Sign sweet nothings to me." An illustration shows the torso of a person wearing a suit and signing "sweetheart" in American Sign Language.

Teal text on a white background with a decorative border reads, "Guide me to your heart." An illustration shows a person using a white cane kneeling down to a guide dog.

Teal text on a white background with a decorative border reads, "Our love is barrier-free." An illustration shows two hearts, one reads "access" and the other reads "inclusion."

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We wish you a very happy Valentine’s Day! –CowCow P.S. Thanks @squishable.bsky.social for the cards. We think they’re bo-fine. #ValentinesDay

Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 6mo ago

CONGRATULATIONS to the @incldisability.bsky.social team for publishing their Virtual Conference Planning Handbook, with lessons they learned from hosting their free, virtual, international conferences. Check it out! www.includingdisability.org/events/handb...

Including Disability - Handbook

Read the Handbook The Including Disability Virtual Conference Planning Handbook is available as an accessible PDF document below. If this document does not meet your access needs, please let us know a...

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Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We love you moo-re than all the bats in the cave. –CowCow P.S. Thanks @squishable.bsky.social for the cards. We’re udderly in love with them. #ValentinesDay

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We’re excited to share something new with you! The Including Disability Virtual Conference Planning Handbook is officially here. Read it for free on our website! www.includingdisability.org/events/handb... #IncludingDisability #DisabilitySummit2025 #IncludingDisabilityGlobalSummit #IDGS

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Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Can the concept of accessibility be our #Valentine? No? Hmm… Stay tuned to find out who is then! –CowCow

Cartoon white notebook paper with blue lines on it. Red hearts are papered around its border. In the middle, in a handwriting-like font, the question “Do you love accessibility?” “Love” is underlined. Beneath, two options: yes and no. The circle beside “yes” is filled in with another red heart. In the bottom right corner, a tan and brown two-headed cow stands behind one of the red border hearts. The left head wears a pink and purple flower crown, and the right wears black sunglasses without arms.

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our brains on #DigitalAccessibilty. –CowCow

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ever wondered moo we are? Here’s the rundown. –CowCow

A tan and brown cartoon cow stands against a pink flowery background. The title: Get to know CowCow. Around the two-headed cow, the following facts in brown text, going counterclockwise: We were born on the American-Canadian border, so one head is American, and the other is Canadian.Our best friend isParkour Squirrel. Our full name is: CowCow the Bicranial Bovine, First of Their Name, Herald of the Disabled Apocalypse, Breaker of Curb Cuts.We have one-eyed cow cousins.There is no reason for CowCow;we simply are.Even our own team “doesn’t get the cow.” We bring tidings of great accessibility. Our single-headed ancestor appeared on the Vol. 3 cover. One head has the magical ability to keep their sunglasses on without the glasses having arms.

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Don’t forget your pink this Wednesday! Join us in our iconic status. #OnWednesdaysWeWearPink –CowCow

A cartoon tan and brown two-headed cow stands in a field full of multi-colored wildflowers. The left head wears a pink and purple flower crown, and the right wears a pair of dark sunglasses with no wings. (We don’t know how they stay up.) On their body, they wear a fluffy pink realistic tutu. A quotation bubble over the left head reads “On Wednesdays, we wear pink.” The right head says, “The disabilities might be chronic, but we look iconic.”

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Don't forget to check out our brand moo volume of the journal! Scan the QR code or check the link in our bio to read! –CowCow #IncludingDisability

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New year, same CowCow. We’re looking forward to another year of accessibility advocacy. –CowCow

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We wish everyone a warm and wonderful holiday season! Personally, we’re big fans of the holiday moo-sic. –CowCow

A cartoon tan and brown two-headed cow stands in a warmly lit living room. The walls and floors are wood paneled, and two rows of bookshelves hang behind a lighted Christmas tree. Presents sit nestled beneath it. (How a two-headed cow wrapped them, we do not know.) Over the tan couch beside the tree hangs the Star of David. Outside the window, blurry snow flakes fall. On the windowsill sits a 9-candled menorah.

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 8mo ago

South African activists, Michael Masutha and William Rowland, heard the phrase from an unknown East European activist, and their books popularized it in the 1990s. Talk about an international herd! –CowCow #IncludingDisability

Two taped-up photo squares and a quotation bubble hang on a pinkish-purple background. One of the two heads of a two-headed cow is in each of the photo squares. One wears sunglasses, and the other wears a pink and purple flower crown. The quotation bubble reads “Did You Know?” Then, a bullet point list of facts. First, “The phrase "Nothing about us without us" is from the 1500s and was a protest against kings making decisions alone. Its Latin form was ‘Nihil de nobis, sine nobis.’” Then, “One of CowCow's heads probably speaks Latin. The other does not.”

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 8mo ago

And our accessibility advocacy will be as unwavering as an oak tree! –CowCow

A brown cartoon squirrel holds an acorn in its hands. Text in front of it reads “Parkour Squirrel’s Nuts of Wisdom.” A quotation bubble above the squirrel reads “A nut never apologizes for its shell; it trusts the world to discover its worth.” In the bottom left corner, CowCow’s two heads pop in, cut off just above their four nostrils. The left head wears their usual wing-less sunglasses, and the right one wears their usual pink and purple flower crown.

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 8mo ago

You might say that accessibility is…cool. –CowCow #IncludingDisability

A two headed tan and brown cow stands in a snowy cartoon field. One head wears a pink and purple flower crown, while the other wears a pair of sunglasses without wings. To their right, there is a cartoon snowman with sticks for legs and arms. How he balances, we do not know. Great is his power. Over the cow’s heads, there’s a quotation bubble that reads “Accessibility is ‘snow’ much fun.” Snowflakes pepper the air around the cow and snowman.

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our volunteers keep us moo-ving forward. Want to get involved? Check the link in our bio! -CowCow #IncludingDisability #Accessibility #Disability #Thankful #Grateful

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We simply are CowCow. –CowCow #IncludingDisability #Accessibility #Disability

A zoomed in closeup of CowCow’s heads. One wears a flower crown, and the other wears sunglasses without wings. The background is a spooky, dimly-lit forest. White text above their heads reads “There is no HowHow to CowCow.”

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Have you herd? Internalized ableism is out, and self-acceptance is in. –CowCow #IncludingDisability #Accessibility #Disability #DisabilityJustice #SelfAcceptance #DisabilityPride #DisabledAndProud

A cartoon tan and brown two headed cow stands in a green and orange field with rolling hills. One head wears a pink and purple flower crown while the other wears dark sunglasses with no wings. A quotation bubble over their head reads “No need to cow-er; we’re disabled and proud.”

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Good accessibility is moo-sic to our ears! –CowCow #IncludingDisability #Accessibility #Disability #DisabilityJustice #WinterWinds

A cartoon tan and brown two-headed cow stands in a snow-covered field. Curly black lines in the sky indicate the wind is gusting toward the cow. One of the cow’s heads wears a scarf and pink and purple flower crown; the other head wears sunglasses and dark earmuffs. A quotation bubble over the cow reads “Everyone deserves easy, breezy accessibility.” Breezy is underlined because we know this pun is terrible, but we’re leaning into it anyway.

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 9mo ago

And we’ll keep shouting it until we are herd! –CowCow #IncludingDisability #Accessibility #Disability #DisabilityJustice #Disabled

A tan and brown two-headed cow stands atop a foggy, scenic mountain range with lots of rocks. A quotation bubble over their heads reads “We’ll shout it from the mountain tops: Access is udder-ly essential!”

Including Disability @incldisability.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Making moo-ves on advocacy initiatives is so much easier when well-rested! We’re all members of the herd, so self-care is herd-care! #IncludingDisability #Accessibility #Disability #DisabilityJustice #Disabled #SelfCare

A cartoon field with bright green grass and a bright blue sky. A building that might be a house and might be a barn stands on the far side of the field with curtains in its warmly-lit windows. A herd of slightly disturbing AI-generated animals rests around the field with ZZZs over their heads. A tan and brown two-headed cow, one head wearing a pink and purple flower crown and the other wearing sunglasses without wings, stands amidst them. Over the top third of the image, “Rest is RADICAL” is spelled out in brown letters. A bright yellow sun hangs in the sky, and animals that might be bees, birds, or butterflies swarm flutter around it.