Disability centered gifts for Valentine's Day

The Nth Degree makes everything disability culture related.  Wheelchair user Dan Wilkins designs everything from clothing, to posters, to mouse pads from a disability angle.  Since I couldn't capture the awesomeness of The Nth Degree's entire catalog for this list, I chose one of my favorite shirts as a sample.  I love to wear this during appointments with new doctors or during my annual personal care assistant (PCA) hours reevaluation.Are you itching to pop question but every time you try your mouth goes dry and speaking becomes a non-option?  Get this shirt in your beloved's favorite style (t-shirt, long sleeve, crewneck sweatshirt, or hoodie) and color.  Wrap it in a pretty box.  She'll get the idea.  Especially if you're there, engagement ring box in hand when she opens it!  3E Love also sells proud husband shirts.  Whoever you love, you're covered!  Not ready for forever, but need to move from casual to official?  3E Love's proud boyfriend or proud girlfriend shirts are for you.Good luck!Remember: You must contact 3E Love directly in advance if you want expedited shipping or to stop by the Chicago area warehouse to pick up your items.  There are people of both genders who act very much like Jeremy the Crow in The Secret of NIMH.  They see any piece of jewelry and exclaim, " Ooh! oh-oh-oooh! A sparkly!"  If you're person you bought it for them, you can do no wrong.I'm not that woman.  I rarely wear jewelry. However, I think both the sparkle freak and I could agree on the item above.  They get their shine.  I get my understatement. If this necklace doesn't suit you, 3E Love has more. Also, all their jewelry is currently on sale.   Check it out! Remember: You must contact 3E Love directly in advance if you want expedited shipping or to stop by the Chicago area warehouse to pick up your items. View the list »
Have a lot of Valentines this year?  Then 3E Love's love themed postcard might be exactly the right thing to make all your special someone's feel special.   Not only is 3E Love wheelchair founded and run. but the more you buy, the more you save and postcard stamps are cheaper than 1st class stamps, so it's a win/win.  Need it fast?  You can request expedited shipping.  Chicago area residents can go to the 3E Love warehouse to pick things up right away and try on items before you buy them .Note: You must contact 3E Love directly in advance if you want expedited shipping or to stop by the warehouse.

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Valentine’s Day is approaching. Perhaps like so many people, you’ve procrastinated. The situation is even worse if are looking for a gift designed to please a person who lives and breathes disability culture, especially if you Don’t. Maybe the answer is a book, a necklace, a tee shirt, or just the perfect card. Then again, maybe your special someone has a full closet, complete bookshelf, and doesn’t do sparkly things. Conceivably, my reader might be a person with a disability (PWD) who is trying to educate their new sweetie about disability culture and community.

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I’ve tried to provide an answer for every loved one. Remember the key to good gift buying is to take the receiver into account, even if the present is meant to educate. By the way, thanks to one-day shipping you can still get all the items pictured here in time. That should keep you out of the dog house on love day. However, if the worst happens and your gift is late, you can always pull the website up on your machine and show your beloved what they will be getting. Just one more just thing about living in the digital age!

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  • Have a lot of Valentines this year?  Then 3E Love's love themed postcard might be exactly the right thing to make all your special someone's feel special.   Not only is 3E Love wheelchair founded and run. but the more you buy, the more you save and postcard stamps are cheaper than 1st class stamps, so it's a win/win.  Need it fast?  You can request expedited shipping.  Chicago area residents can go to the 3E Love warehouse to pick things up right away and try on items before you buy them .Note: You must contact 3E Love directly in advance if you want expedited shipping or to stop by the warehouse.
  • There are people of both genders who act very much like Jeremy the Crow in The Secret of NIMH.  They see any piece of jewelry and exclaim, " Ooh! oh-oh-oooh! A sparkly!"  If you're person you bought it for them, you can do no wrong.I'm not that woman.  I rarely wear jewelry. However, I think both the sparkle freak and I could agree on the item above.  They get their shine.  I get my understatement. If this necklace doesn't suit you, 3E Love has more. Also, all their jewelry is currently on sale.   Check it out! Remember: You must contact 3E Love directly in advance if you want expedited shipping or to stop by the Chicago area warehouse to pick up your items. 
  • Are you itching to pop question but every time you try your mouth goes dry and speaking becomes a non-option?  Get this shirt in your beloved's favorite style (t-shirt, long sleeve, crewneck sweatshirt, or hoodie) and color.  Wrap it in a pretty box.  She'll get the idea.  Especially if you're there, engagement ring box in hand when she opens it!  3E Love also sells proud husband shirts.  Whoever you love, you're covered!  Not ready for forever, but need to move from casual to official?  3E Love's proud boyfriend or proud girlfriend shirts are for you.Good luck!Remember: You must contact 3E Love directly in advance if you want expedited shipping or to stop by the Chicago area warehouse to pick up your items.  
  • The Nth Degree makes everything disability culture related.  Wheelchair user Dan Wilkins designs everything from clothing, to posters, to mouse pads from a disability angle.  Since I couldn't capture the awesomeness of The Nth Degree's entire catalog for this list, I chose one of my favorite shirts as a sample.  I love to wear this during appointments with new doctors or during my annual personal care assistant (PCA) hours reevaluation.
  • Billie Rain is many things at once: A PWD, a gender nonconformist, a poet, an out member of the LGBT community, and a filmmaker.  Billie is also a person who tries to walk the walk, while talking the talk.  Doing all that while dealing with and trying not to aggravate ongoing health concern is a battle.As you read this book, you'll travel through this journey with Billie via deep, narrative poetry.  The perfect gift for your poetic Valentine can be ordered here.  Amazon guarantees Valentine's delivery if you choose the correct shipping option, which the site will change day by day.  Available in paperback or kindle versions. 
  • Harilyn Rousso is disability rights activist, feminist, psychotherapist, writer, and painter.  She recently released this new book where she discusses "inspiration porn" in detail.  Writer StellaYoung defines inspiration porn as "images [that] exceptionalise and objectify those of us they claim to represent. It's no coincidence that these genuinely adorable disabled kids in these images are never named: it doesn't matter what their names are, they're just there as objects of inspiration."While I haven't read the book as of yet, enough people I respect have raved about it that I felt comfortable enough to include it on this list.
  • Every PWD has someone or, more likely, someones who have never heard of the disability rights movement and/ot is amazed that we’re not all sitting around waiting to be cured. Sadly, some of these people are even other PWD. If you're hopelessly in love with or related to one, you probably find this annoying. Give them Joesph P. Shapiro's No Pity. While it was published in 1993 and, therefore, is about 20 years behind the times, the book written by the able-bodied NPR correspondent is still the best introduction to disability history that I've found. When I was teaching, I made my students read it every semester. Since most of them were able-bodied it was very easy for them follow Shapiro on his journey from knowing nothing to knowing something, as this journey to clearly matched the one they themselves were on in my class.I might also suggest a reward system. Given person in question a quiz at the end of every chapter and if they get over 80% right, they win a prize!
  • Maybe your Valentine has all stuff they could want.  What does the gift giver do then?  Make a donation to their favorite cause!  Many causes will send your love an e-card, telling them that a gift has been made in their honor.  Even if their cause doesn't, you can always buy a card and put your receipt inside.  The logo above is for ADAPT, a non-violent, direct action, disability rights organization dedicated to ending the institutional bias that forces so many PWD into nursing homes.  That's who I'd want someone to donate to for me on Valentine's Day, but, obviously, choose the organization or cause closest your sweetheart's heart. 
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