I’d be negligent as a blogger if I didn’t flag this excellent piece by my friend Darryl Sellwood up. A disability activist based in Adelaide, Australia, in this article Dazz explores some of the issues surrounding his local disability pride march. I find what he writes about balloons, for example, particularly interesting: is it appropriate to let balloons be tied to one’s wheelchair? Would that not turn a march about some fairly serious issues into too much of a carnival? Darryl unpicks these issues well; you can tell he’s doing a PhD in disability issues as he explores the various ways of looking at things. It also reminds me that I haven’t written anything of the length of this article in ages, and that I need to do some serious analytical writing soon.