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Bay Area Day of Mourning Mourn for the Dead. Fight like Hell for the Living! On Sunday, March 1, 2015, the Bay Area disability community gathered at the Ed Roberts … Continue Reading Bay Area Day of Mourning: Program Information and List of Names
On Sunday, March 1, 2015, the Bay Area disability community gathered at the Ed Roberts Campus to remember and mourn the deaths of disabled people at the hands of their … Continue Reading Bay Area Disability Day of Mourning: Alice Wong
On Sunday, March 1, 2015, the Bay Area disability community gathered at the Ed Roberts Campus to remember and mourn the deaths of disabled people at the hands of their … Continue Reading Bay Area Day of Mourning: La Mesha Irizarry
On Sunday, March 1, 2015, the Bay Area disability community gathered at the Ed Roberts Campus to remember and mourn the deaths of disabled people at the hands of their … Continue Reading Bay Area Day of Mourning: Leroy Moore
On Sunday March 1, 2015, the Bay Area disability community gathered at the Ed Roberts Campus to remember and mourn the deaths of disabled people at the hands of their … Continue Reading Bay Area Day of Mourning: Corbett Joan OToole
Below are a few excerpts from a blog post by Kayla Whaley about body image and disability first published November 5, 2014. Not unlike a lot of people (girls especially), … Continue Reading A Strange Reaction by Kayla Whaley
Married couple and disability rights advocates Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin recorded their story at StoryCorps San Francisco on January 3, 2015. This is the last of two blog posts. … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin, Part Two
Married couple and disability rights advocates Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin recorded their story at StoryCorps San Francisco on January 3, 2015. This is the first of two blog posts. … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin
The Disability Visibility Project is thankful to have our 84th media partner: The Association of University Centers on Disabilities! From their About Us page: The Association of University Centers on … Continue Reading Media Partner #84: The Association of University Centers on Disabilities
The Disability Visibility Project is a HUGE fan of autistic activist Amy Sequenzia. She kindly gave us permission to re-blog a piece first published by the Autism Women’s Network on December … Continue Reading Disability Equality is Still Elusive by Amy Sequenzia
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: Diane Coleman, Chicago, IL
Thank you to Colin Hambrook, editor of Disability Arts Online (Dao), for reaching out to the Disability Visibility Project and sharing information about us to people in the UK!! From … Continue Reading Media Partner #83: Disability Arts Online
Emily Smith Beitiks interviewed longtime family friend Stanley K. Yarnell at StoryCorps San Francisco on October 23, 2014. Below are approximate excerpts from their conversation. On Stanley’s progressive visual impairment … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Emily Smith Beitiks and Stanley K. Yarnell
Thank you very much to CCAC (Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning) for becoming our latest media partner! From their About page: Many millions cannot comprehend speech in group situations, … Continue Reading Media Partner #82: Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning
The Disability Visibility Project is a big fan of couple Nick Dupree and Alejandra Ospina. Alejandra was kind enough to share a video about them. Here’s the description from YouTube: … Continue Reading The Together Program: Nick and Alejandra
Cheryl Green, a media partner of the Disability Visibility Project, recently discovered a documentary first broadcast on PBS in 1997, “My Country.” This is a blog post about that documentary … Continue Reading “My Country” ADA Documentary by Cheryl Green