uodsp: Criptiques T-shirt fundraiser

finchb finchb at uoregon.edu
Thu Jul 16 20:12:55 PDT 2015


Sorry for the second message, but I made a vocabulary mistake: I 
referred to "The only disability in life is a bad attitude," as an 
adage, but a quick internet search just reminded me that the term 
"adage" refers to a truth, which that statement is certainly not. I 
probably meant "cliche" instead.

On 2015-07-16 8:09 pm, finchb wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I wanted to let all of you know about this T-shirt which I really
> like, find funny and just...want. It's green, and in black block
> letters, reads "My other disability is a bad attitude," playing with
> the common adage, "The only disability in life is a bad attitude"
> (link here: https://www.bonfirefunds.com/criptiques-t-shirt-takeover).
> I thought some of you might be interested too, and if you are, that's
> really convenient because it needs four more purchases before July 25
> to be printed.
> 
> All of the money goes to a cause I don't know if any of you have heard
> of (or might be involved with): Criptiques, which is an anthology of
> disabled writers' work "exploring the provocative side of disability."
> I hadn't heard of it until I saw this shirt on Tumblr. Anyways, it
> seems like a really cool cause, the book is out now but they seem to
> have podcasts and things too, and to be in line with basically
> everything DS stands for.
> 
> If you have any questions, I don't know if I can answer them, but I
> can certainly try.
> 
> Thanks,
> Finch Byrd
> 
> Also:
> 
> Here's the link to the shirt again:
> https://www.bonfirefunds.com/criptiques-t-shirt-takeover
> 
> Here's Criptiques' Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Criptiques
> 
> And here's their website: http://criptiques.com/



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