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Graphic with a teal background featuring a photo of Ingrid, a middle-aged White woman with a long gray/brown ponytail who is wearing a bright blue dress and a colorful cloth face-mask. She's sitting in her wheelchair outdoors, next to a fuschia orchid. Photo credit: Christopher Egusa.

Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future

Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future Ingrid Tischer Reasons, I’ve got a few. But this still-current guidance from the CDC … Continue Reading Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future

A double exposure photograph, wherein two images are faded onto one another in a single image, of Jane sitting at her desk on a black office chair. Jane is a light skin East Asian person, with her eyes closed, wearing brown and black glasses and short black hair that slightly flares at the end with rounded bangs like a bowl. In one exposure Jane’s face is larger and closer to the camera; there are lights directly behind her. In the other, she is sitting on a black office chair and holding a sliced open half of a pomegranate. Behind her is a round, moon-like light. The desk behind her is a medium orange-brown and contains a head shelf, with books ordered in red, black, white, and the rest of the rainbow ordered on the top of the table. There’s a small brown monkey plushie near the left end of the desk. There’s a black and white ink illustration above the orange to blue books on top of the desk where there’s an open space.

Posted 1 month ago Guest Blog Posts

What Will Never Be Again

What Will Never Be Again Jane Shi Content notes: suicide, genocide, deaths in long-term care, serophobia, medical abuse, labour exploitation, overdose deaths Dionne Brand’s piercing article “On … Continue Reading What Will Never Be Again

Graphic with a yellow background showing a photo of a Black female with dark brown complexion, close cropped black hair, wearing a wide smile, and white sweater, in front of a teal colored wall.

Posted 2 months ago Guest Blog Posts

My MS and Me

My MS and Me Carolyn Hinds I’m not sure where or how I should start this essay. As I sit in bed with my laptop resting on the … Continue Reading My MS and Me

This is a graphic illustration by Haley Brown with a bright cobalt blue background. There are black lungs filled with dark gray puffy clouds. In the left lung is a yellow canary bird with a red eye in a mid-flight attack pose. In the right lung there is a red circle. Around the lungs there is clear white tubing that is entwined. Above this graphic the white text reads: #SuckYouPhilips

Posted 2 months ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

May 2022 Philips Recall Summary

In the summer of 2021, Philips Respironics issued a recall notification of a number of their CPAP, BiPap, and ventilators in the United States. A group of disabled people … Continue Reading May 2022 Philips Recall Summary

Graphic with an orange background featuring an illustration of s.e. smith, in a palette of rich oranges, reds, and greens. smith, a white person with brown curly hair, is midframe, draped in a scarf and wearing large green glasses. An arch of flowers rises behind their head, featuring nasturtiums, columbine, and California poppies. Artist credit: Michaela Oteri

Posted 2 months ago Guest Blog Posts

Rest in Peace, Bitch Magazine

Rest in Peace, Bitch Magazine s.e. smith My first experience with Bitch Magazine was seeing it peeping out from around the corner of another publication in the magazine rack … Continue Reading Rest in Peace, Bitch Magazine

Graphic with a dark blue background with a screenshot from Publisher's Marketplace with the following announcement on April 13, 2022 under the non-fiction/anthology category: Editor of DISABILITY VISIBILITY and author of the forthcoming memoir YEAR OF THE TIGER Alice Wong ed.'s DISABILITY INTIMACY, an anthology of writing that dives into the rich and varied intimate relationships of people in the disabled community to Anna Kaufman at Vintage, by Julia Kardon at HG Literary (world English).

Posted 3 months ago DVP News and Events

DISABILITY INTIMACY: New anthology edited by Alice Wong

The cat is out of the bag! My follow-up anthology to DISABILITY VISIBILITY will be DISABILITY INTIMACY, a collection of writing about the relationships, communities, and intimacies of disabled people, … Continue Reading DISABILITY INTIMACY: New anthology edited by Alice Wong

Graphic with a black background featuring a photo of Thomas Reid, a brown skin Black man with a clean-shaven bald head and full neat beard, smiles into the camera. He wears dark shades and a black and white checkered button up shirt.

Posted 3 months ago Guest Blog Posts

Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy

Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy Thomas Reid When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the world changed … Continue Reading Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy

Graphic with a teal background featuring a photo is of Anna, a white nonbinary person with shoulder-length blond hair, standing in front of a beige wall. They wear a muted orange shirt.

Posted 3 months ago Guest Blog Posts

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore: It feels like I am seeing a guy stick his head into an alligator’s mouth … Continue Reading Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore

Graphic with a sky blue background featuring a photo in the center of Jocelyn Mondragon. A Mexican woman with curly short black hair, smiling straight at the camera. In front of an orange painted brick wall, Jocelyn is wearing a beige corduroy jacket with a blue and yellow checkered sweater underneath. A black and white striped strap is across her shoulder.

Posted April 1, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No

We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No Jocelyn Mondragon-Rosas Spoiler alert: I will be discussing the whole film, characters, and storyline from the Disney film Encanto. … Continue Reading We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No

Graphic with a black background featuring 3 cropped photos from left to right: Catherine, a white woman, smiles widely like the joyous elder crip lesbian she is. She is seated in her power chair wearing a red shawl with a blur of lush greenery behind her. A selfie of Aislinn in front of the ocean on a winter day. She is a white person wearing a toque, scarf, and big, dark, somewhat bug-like sunglasses. A photo of Heidi, a white woman wearing black-rimmed glasses and smiling brightly. She is surrounded by books and art.

Posted March 31, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Perhaps They Won’t Have Died in Vain: The GRIM Project

Perhaps They Won’t Have Died in Vain: The GRIM Project Aislinn Thomas Content notes: death, euthanasia, filicide, medical ableism Since 2016, people in so-called Canada who are … Continue Reading Perhaps They Won’t Have Died in Vain: The GRIM Project

Graphic with a brown background with a photo of A Andrews, a white non-binary person with brown eyes and short hair. They are sitting in the driver’s seat of a car with dark seats, wearing a tan beanie, and lined denim jacket.

Posted March 16, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

How radical acceptance of my disabled body made a mess (and clarity) of my gender acceptance

How radical acceptance of my disabled body made a mess (and clarity) of my gender acceptance A. Andrews Content notes: gender and body dysphoria I am … Continue Reading How radical acceptance of my disabled body made a mess (and clarity) of my gender acceptance

Graphic with a navy blue background and in the center a photo of a red-haired and freckled woman wearing a blue blazer and standing in front of a red brick wall

Posted March 14, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

My Villain Origin Story: Break-up with My Disability Constituency Organization

My Villain Origin Story: Break-up with My Disability Constituency Organization Rebecca Cokley Content notes: cures, eugenics My name is Rebecca Cokley. My parents met in 1970 at … Continue Reading My Villain Origin Story: Break-up with My Disability Constituency Organization

Graphic with a dark red background and in the center a photo of a white woman, smiling and standing with her hands on her hips and head slightly tilted to the left, in front of a gray granite wall. She has short brown hair in an asymmetrical haircut, longer on her left side and shorter on her right side. She is wearing dangling silver earrings and a gray t-shirt that reads "Kaepernick 7" in red, underneath a black blazer.

Posted March 7, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism

Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism Christine Mitchell I’m tired. We’re all tired, collectively. It has been a long two years of heightened anxiety and isolation … Continue Reading Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism

Graphic with a light blue background featuring a Taiwanese woman with black shoulder length hair and a grey shirt, side-eyeing a teddy-bear looking Pomeranian who dresses in a grey turtleneck sweater.

Posted February 9, 2022 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Crip Siblings: Interview with Chun-san (Sandie) Yi

Alice: Sandie, I am just so delighted to talk with you today and what I loved immediately is that you titled our Zoom meeting ’Crip Siblings’! Sandie: [laughs] Alice: And … Continue Reading Crip Siblings: Interview with Chun-san (Sandie) Yi

Posted February 8, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence

Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence Marley Molkentin and Kennedy Healy Note from the authors: The below photos were taken in Winter and Spring of 2021 in … Continue Reading Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence

Posted February 6, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions

February 17, 2022 update: press release by Disabled Student Union and UCLA Student Body President Breeze Velasquez. We, the Disabled Student Union, the Mother Organizations Coalition, and Undergraduate … Continue Reading Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions