Last month was Disability Employment Awareness Month. It's one of those issues that advocates need to work on every month - so even though it's November, I'm bringing it up again.
I received an email from another advocate in October asking permission for some of my poems from A Different Light to be read at a poetry reading to celebrate Disability Employment Awareness Month at North Carolina A&T and happily granted it. Once again, the internet becomes a way for us to speak to others and have a voice in ways we may not even imagine.
I put a link to the diversity store above where they offer posters for Disability Employment Awareness. I'm going to encourage friends to purchase and hang these posters where they can to spread the word about this important issue the other 11 months of the year. If you have a hallway where you work, a waiting room or even an interview room - perhaps a library reading room - please consider hanging one of these wonderful images up. Their prices are affordable ($6.25 for some of the posters) and there are many to choose from. In addition to posters, bookmarks and buttons are also available.
[visual description: Shown is a poster for sale at diversitystore.com entitled Employ Ability. A multicolored figure in a wheelchair near the bottom right reaches up toward a purple sun at the top of the poster. Multicolored round clouds in greens, orange and purple are between the sun and the figure. On the bottom left is a multicolored tree. The sky is an aqua blue.]
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