“We will carve our place into time and space.”

—Wild Things, Alessia Cara

It’s powerful outcry, a protest and empowerment song by Alessia, as sister/co-host Kerry loves music that’s unapologetic - Things are heating up during July’s Disability Pride Month (DPM).

This week on Outlook we’re continuing the Pride talk on another mixed bag with brother/co-host Brian’s baseball adventures, reading image descriptions of the stadium, and then Kerry shares about her memories of seeing the Toronto Bluejay’s Sky Dome (roof open and sky exposed or closed).

Accessibility - how he and BF Barry asked at Guest Services for accessible ways to follow the game and a giant company like Rogers doing very little even with all their resources.

Advocacy - summer being a time people love to attend festivals and a recent CBC London Morning segment speaking with an accessibility consultant in a wheelchair about how to make something like London’s Sunfest more inclusive.

And equality - describing the colours of the Disability Pride Flag as July’s DPM continues.

While Kerry and guide dog Oyster recently had a girl’s day, watching Friends, sleeping on the couch, and going out in the back yard for which Kerry is writing an essay about in a July writing class: Oyster’s Secret Garden, Brian and Barry had a good time out socialising in London and spending a lot of time on patios and at local spots across town. He shares about transportation issues and talking with Uber drivers, and. Kerry shares, while describing the need for colours and vivid imagery on a flag like that of DPM along with the grief she’s now receiving peer support for when she misses seeing the colours she has always loved and once could make out.

When Kerry was in Ireland and went forest bathing, she was encouraged to take her power back and she finds that works better through song lyrics than through cursing. It’s a summer of Pride, a lifetime of advocacy, and demanding equality along the way with cross-community support so be one of the Wild Ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5vUBQBykJ4