#changing places

[beranibear]

Things that make me happy in Melbourne (feat. cow in tree)

[musicandoldmovies]

Anne Clark - Sleeper in Metropolis

From the album Changing Places

[vanishingsydney]

Ghost signs. The hair designer currently sells take-away BBQ ducks, while the electronics store is now a pop-up fruit & vegetable stand during the Delta outbreak. People gotta eat. Campsie.

[flowercrowncrip]

A wonderful example of inclusion and accessibility done right:

My favourite cousin recently got married to her equally brilliant fiancée after years of delaying it because of COVID. The weather was perfect, the farm was gorgeous and their dresses were beautiful. They were even blessed with a very symbolic rainbow.

Both of them have worked really hard to make this happen - weddings are famously difficult to plan without a pandemic. What made it even more amazing for me was that they had gone out of their way to make sure that it was accessible.

That meant they not only did the basic stuff like making sure there were ramps for all areas and arranging for us to get there a bit early so we could park somewhere that wasn't a field, they also made sure that I got my own gastroparesis friendly food, letting me chose exactly what I was going to eat and best of all even hired a changing places toilet* for the whole event.

It was a beautiful wedding and a beautiful example of how utterly wonderful and caring they both are, and how to do things right.

*a changing places toilet has extra equipment like a hoist and adult size changing table

[shakespearenews]

Please Don’t Ask Elizabeth Kolbert How She Organizes Her Books

“I don’t. Often this is a problem.”

What books are you embarrassed not to have read yet?

In David Lodge’s academic novel “Changing Places,” the members of the English department play a game called “Humiliation.” Participants are supposed to name a book they haven’t read, but that they imagine most other members of the department have. One player names “Hamlet.” He wins the game but loses his job.

[beeeeeeeees]

Today is Changing Places Awerness Day!

So what’s a changing place? It’s a large room with a toilet/sink/mirror, a changing bench (adult sized) and a hoist. Sometimes they also have a shower area. They are usually accessed with a radar key. And they are needed for folks you need to be changed. Before this we’ve had to change loved ones on toilet floors .

This could mean people wearing pads (adult diapers but please stop calling them that) or may someone needs the space because the career need to go to the loo but has children she can’t leave out side (hence privacy screens). Or maybe someone’s having a pots flare up and needs lie down or have their panic attack somewhere. Maybe it’s a mum with 5 kids.

The idea is there are so many of theses changing place rooms that it doesn’t matter who uses them. People already judge those that aren’t old or visibly disabled when they use disabled loos so we don’t judge these.

Two new pieces of legislation to get excited about today;

All new, large buildings are required to have a changing place

And funding for 37 motor ways to put in changing places will be made available.

Next time you go to the toilet, think about how it must feel for those whose only options when out of their own house is a dirty, gritty floor or to wait and “sit in it” . we’ve made do when the loved ones are younger, we’ve changed them in the car boot or asked for the first aid room (rarely given access because ‘what if someone needs it?’ )

This isn’t trivial, this is life changing and it is needed. Clean sanitation is a human right. And disabled people should be able to live just like every abled person out there!

So today is #changingplacesawarenessday and it’s disability pride month.

[celebrate-the-clone-wars]

WRITING WEDNESDAY: REMAINS OF THE DAY

So much can happen within a day. 

It can involve hard decisions, sacrifices and things and people forever lost. When everything falls about and nothing goes as planned, there is very little to show for it.

Still, there are still remains. Still, there are those that persist in living on among the wreckage and the losses.

Hopefully, what remains can still be salvaged, and turned into something more.

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