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In the third of our series of posts about the MDA telethon and the culture of pity/inspiration porn, here’s an excerpt from a story on NPR originally broadcast on August … Continue Reading People We Love: Ben Mattlin, Los Angeles, CA
A fabulous excerpt/extended quote by Ingrid Tischer, Director of Development, DREDF, on telethons, ‘inspiration porn‘ and their impact on girls with disabilities (published in an article titled, “I’ll Trade You the Pink-Ribbon … Continue Reading People We Love: Ingrid Tischer, Berkeley, CA
Eeeeeeks. It’s almost Labor Day and for some people with muscular dystrophy, it’s a time of cringing and overall disdain due to the MDA telethon for ‘Jerry’s kids.’ This is … Continue Reading Disability History: New York Times opinion piece on MDA telethon by Evan Kemp Jr. (9/3/81)
Judith Heumann is an internationally known disability rights activist. She currently serves as the State Department’s Special Advisor for International Disability Rights. Check out her recent op-ed for The Hill … Continue Reading Civil Rights = Disability Rights = Human Rights
It’s Our Story is a national initiative to make disability history public and accessible. Scott Cooper recorded and collected over 1,300 video interviews from disability leaders across the country since … Continue Reading Disability History: John Holland, Denver, CO
The New Idealist recently published ‘The Autism Issue.’ Lydia Brown writes about the future of the autistic rights movement. As with disability rights in general, there’s a long road ahead. … Continue Reading People We Love: Lydia Brown, Washington, DC
Came across this article a while ago from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on their accessibility efforts. I was struck by a photo they included in their post. … Continue Reading Disability History: Students with Disabilities, New York City, 1922
Moderated by Ki’tay Davidson and Allie Cannington on August 22, 2014 from 12 noon to 1 pm and co-hosted by other disability activists, the goal of the conversation is: Our goal … Continue Reading #DisabilitySolidarity Twitter Conversation: August 22, 2014
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Filmmaker and activist Cheryl Green recently interviewed Aimee Elber on July 26, 2014 during the City of Portland ADA 24th anniversary celebration held at Matt Dishman Community Center. Cheryl Green … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Interview of Aimee Elber by Cheryl Green
Because everyone should have access to books, we’re extremely happy to have Bookshare as our 44th media partner! Based in Palo Alto, California, Bookshare has the world’s largest online digital … Continue Reading Media Partner #44: Bookshare
Andrew Pulrang is a friend of the project and a prolific blogger over at Disability Thinking. The following is an excerpt of a post he published on June 24, 2014. … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Olmstead, with Charts! By Andrew Pulrang
Another interesting hashtag emerged on Twitter a few weeks ago called #AbledPrivilegeIs Check out a few of these tweets: #abledprivilegeis knowing that you and spouse can both enter friends' housess … Continue Reading Hashgtag Conversations: Abled Privilege Is
The Disability Visibility Project is proud to have the World Institute on Disability as our 43rd media partner! From their website: The mission of the World Institute on Disability (WID) in … Continue Reading Media Partner #43: World Institute on Disability
Talk about history in action. Various community organizations such as Senior and Disability Action and the Gray Panthers blocked two tech shuttle busses in the Mission district of San Francisco … Continue Reading Disability History: Seniors and Disabled People Protesting Tech Buses, San Francisco, CA
Double woot, Bethany Stevens & CripConfessions is our 42nd media partner! Bethany Stevens is describes herself as “an uppity crip scholar-activist and sexologist. I use the word ‘crip’ in a … Continue Reading Media Partner #42: Bethany Stevens & CripConfessions
Ingrid Tischer and Ken Stein are both active members of the San Francisco Bay Area disability community. They’re also married to one another! On July 24, 2014, Ingrid and Ken … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Project: Ingrid and Ken, Berkeley, CA