
The Power of Storytelling By Anne Thomas
Working way too many hours as a lawyer, I signed up for a storytelling class to make myself leave work at least once a week at a decent time. I … Continue Reading The Power of Storytelling By Anne Thomas
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Working way too many hours as a lawyer, I signed up for a storytelling class to make myself leave work at least once a week at a decent time. I … Continue Reading The Power of Storytelling By Anne Thomas
Joshua St. Pierre, Zach Richter and Erin Schick created the Did I Stutter Project, a disability activist project for stutterers by stutterers. Below are excerpts of a blog post by … Continue Reading It’s time to take back our speech: Did I stutter? By Joshua St. Pierre
Earlier the Disability Visibility Project re-blogged a post by Latina feminist Dior Vargas. She is spearheading the People Of Color & Mental Illness Photo Project, a campaign collecting photos from … Continue Reading People Of Color & Mental Illness Photo Project
Earlier last November the Disability Visibility Project posted a poem by one of our media partners, Susan Mazrui. With her permission, here is a re-post of another poem: Disability: The Power and the Pride. Disability: The Power and … Continue Reading Disability: The Power and the Pride by Susan Mazrui
Historian Dr. Sheila Hanlon’s research interests include Victorian and Edwardian cycling history and the WWI and WWII Women’s Land Army, both in Canada and Britain. She is also curator of … Continue Reading Rosa May Billinghurst: Suffragette on Three Wheels by Sheila Hanlon
The Disability Visibility Project loves it when people reach out to us and share their projects on disability history. Sarika D. Metha is a Producer for APA Compass on KBOO 90.7 FM, specializing … Continue Reading Deaf South Asian Americans: Shazia’s First Days
Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project interviewed Nina G on October 2, 2014 at StoryCorps San Francisco. This is the last of two blog posts about their interview. Below … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Nina G and Alice Wong, Part 2
The Disability Visibility Project is thrilled to have one of our stories recorded for StoryCorps featured on NPR’s Morning Edition on January 16, 2015. Thank you to the good folks … Continue Reading DVP on NPR!
Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project interviewed Nina G on October 2, 2014 at StoryCorps San Francisco. This is the first of two blog posts about their interview. Below … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Nina G and Alice Wong
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: Jack Catlin, Chicago, IL
This is a blog post originally published on January 16, 2014 for BK Nation, “Disability Justice and Social Justice: Entwined Histories and Futures” by Alice Wong, Project Coordinator of the … Continue Reading Disability Justice and Social Justice: Entwined Histories and Futures
We are excited to have Ollibean as our 81st media partner for the Disability Visibility Project! From Ollibean’s Twitter bio: Ollibean connects families, advocates, & professionals in the cross-disability community … Continue Reading Media Partner #81: Ollibean
This is a blog post by Dior Vargas about her experience as a Latina feminist dealing with depression first published on August 19, 2014. Below are a few excerpts from … Continue Reading Sigue Y Sigue by Dior Vargas
Dr. Kirsty Liddiard is a postdoctoral research associate researching disability, sexuality, gender, embodiment and childhood. Here is a video she posted on YouTube on November 9, 2014 giving an overview … Continue Reading (S)exploring Disability by Kirsty Liddiard
Our labor has value! This is a blog post by Carly Findlay first published on November 10, 2014. Below are a few excerpts from that post. I was asked to … Continue Reading Why I won’t provide disability advice for free by Carly Findlay
We are thankful to have the Institute on Disability Culture as our 80th media partner! Steven E. Brown and Lillian Gonzales Brown, Institute on Disability Culture Co-Founders, have worked in the … Continue Reading Media Partner #80: Institute on Disability Culture