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Rasheera Dopson, MPH, a Black woman with medium-dark brown hair. She is wearing a sleeveless blue and white checkered top, with a silver necklace, wearing red lipstick and smiling.

Black Women Leaders and Disability Justice

Black Women Leaders and Disability Justice Rasheera Dopson, MPH In most traditional images and coverage of political leadership, Black women are not the faces that come to mind. Leadership … Continue Reading Black Women Leaders and Disability Justice

Many, many workers with picket signs reading "UAW: On Strike: Unfair Labor Practice". They are crowded together outdoors and in the sea of faces there appears to be only one worker wearing a surgical mask. Photo by: Ian Castro. 2022. Provided on FairUC Now Website for Press Use

Posted 4 weeks ago Guest Blog Posts

Shoved From the Ivory Tower

Shoved From the Ivory Tower: Disabled Graduate Students Crushed Between the University of California & Their Union Heather Ringo and Julia Métraux On November 29th, 2022, over 200 … Continue Reading Shoved From the Ivory Tower

Graphic in blue with white starbursts in the background. In the center in large text is 2022 with 20 stacked on top of 22. Below in white text: DVP Year in Review

Posted 1 month ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

DVP: 2022 Year in Review

Hello my friends! Whew, what a year, huh? If you told me what would happen in the beginning of last year I would have never believed you. Here’s a brief … Continue Reading DVP: 2022 Year in Review

Photo with a purple-pink reflective background featuring a gold dipper spoon from @umeshiso_ (on IG). On the left are gold ginkgo leaf decorations, a small rainbow, and below are two clear crystals. Photo credit: @ziru.mo (on IG). Right: Photo with a purple-pink background with a copy of Year of the Tiger paperback in the center. Above and below the book are a pair of rainbow chopsticks from @umeshiso_ (on IG). On the right of the book is a tiger bookmark and is one round tiger sticker and one round tiger button. Floral decorations and a small rainbow decor are placed around the edges. Photo credit: @ziru.mo (on IG)

Posted 3 months ago DVP News and Events

Year of the Tiger x Umeshio collab

I love shiny things, especially the rainbow and gold spoons and chopsticks from Umeshio.com, a nonbinary disabled gaysian owned-business created by Umeko Motoyoshi. We are teaming up and offering … Continue Reading Year of the Tiger x Umeshio collab

Graphic with a gray background. From left to right: Digital collage that includes Black and white photo portraits of three people staring pensively at the camera, an Afro-Latina person with medium length curly hair swept to one side of her shoulders, An Asian person smiling, she is wearing a trach at her neck and wearing a crew neck blouse. She is sitting in her power wheelchair. An Iranian person with short, dark curly hair and circular. They wear a black shirt while their hand rests on their chin. Around each persons head rests an illustrated cream colored circle crown on a purple background. Artist credit: Jen White-Johnson

Posted September 12, 2022 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Society of Disabled Oracles

Hello everyone! I wrote about disabled oracles in the past such as a talk I gave on August 6, 2020, “The Last Disabled Oracle,” as part of Assembly for … Continue Reading Society of Disabled Oracles

Graphic with a black background with a photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American disabled woman in a power chair. Behind her is a gray concrete wall. She is wearing a bold red lip color and an orange and black tiger striped sweater. A trach and ventilator tube is at her neck and shoulder. She is serving all the looks and giving a cheeky crooked smile. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography.

Posted September 6, 2022 DVP News and Events

Year of the Tiger: Debut memoir by Alice Wong

Friends, the time is meow. Today my debut memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life, is available in paperback, audiobook, and e-book. It’s been a hell of a summer … Continue Reading Year of the Tiger: Debut memoir by Alice Wong

Graphic with a white background featuring an illustrated portrait of Alice Wong and Ashanti Fortson by Ashanti, with a purple, pink, mauve, and blue color palette. Wong is an Asian American woman wearing a dark blue jacket and a pink-and-lavender chevron-patterned scarf, as well as a mask over her nose with a tube for her Bi-Pap machine. Fortson is an Afro-Mexican person wearing light yellow star earrings, large and round pink glasses, and a dark blue knit shawl with accents in bright pink. Clouds swirl in front of the figures, and stars are visible in the night sky behind them. Shooting stars with bright pink trails are scattered throughout the portrait. Near the bottom of the image, embellished text reads “Alice and Ashanti,” and the text “#CommunityAsHome” is underneath.

Posted August 24, 2022 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Community As Home – Portraits

In 2020 artist Ashanti Fortson and Alice Wong collaborated in a project called Community As Home featuring a series digital portraits centered on the joy, culture, and love of disabled people and … Continue Reading Community As Home – Portraits

Graphic with a red background with a photo in the center of Sandy Ho in 5th or 6th grade. She has dark curly hair, is wearing a white sweater, and a blue and white flower collar. She is smiling at the camera.

Posted August 21, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Release the Red Panda

Release the Red Panda Sandy Ho Note: spoilers for the Pixar film Turning Red “Hi – Dr. Shapiro, it’s Sandy. I’m calling because my parents want me … Continue Reading Release the Red Panda

Graphic with a lavender background showing a photo of Emet’s funeral program. On the cover is a picture of Emet wearing a white and gray polka dotted collared button up shirt, with a gray bow tie. He has curly turquoise hair. He has a mustache and a nose piercing and is sitting in a power chair, smiling. Below it says Rabbi Emet Faye Tauber, August 30, 1994-March 25, 2019. In the background there are zebra stripes, rainbow pride flags, and trans pride flags.

Posted August 14, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle

Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle A different world is possible Noah Strauss There was always a journalist, Joshua Bright, in the room with us in those dying days, in … Continue Reading Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle

Graphic with a dark blue background. In the center is a photo of me in a hospital gown with tubes attached to my arms and face. Multiple pillows are underneath my arms and head. My hands are clasped together in the middle of my body. I have a serious look on my face.

Posted August 7, 2022 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay

My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay Alice Wong Content notes: medical trauma, hospitalization, blood, systemic ableism, death, anxiety This is a semi-accurate account of what happened to … Continue Reading My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay

A young, white disabled woman with long dark hair, standing outside and looking off to the side, wearing light blue sunglasses and a white t-shirt with a small black walking stick design and a black sleeveless jumpsuit over the shirt.

Posted July 24, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology

Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology Mary Frances Layden Sometimes a cocktail just takes the edge off. During lockdown, in the early days of … Continue Reading Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology

Graphic with a red background with a photo of Noah, a white trans masc non-binary person with short brown hair, smiles at the camera while holding a milkshake. They are wearing a short sleeved green shirt with red, orange, and pink flower pattern on it.

Posted July 17, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

On Madness

On Madness Noah Strauss Content notes: institutionalization, generational trauma The deep is always close by, in our peripheral vision. Mind the corners. To know what you’re experiencing … Continue Reading On Madness

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.

Posted May 24, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

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 May 21, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Disability Visibility Project

Black Women Leaders and Disability Justice

Shoved From the Ivory Tower

DVP: 2022 Year in Review

Year of the Tiger x Umeshio collab

Society of Disabled Oracles

Year of the Tiger: Debut memoir by Alice Wong

Community As Home – Portraits

My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay

Black Women Leaders and Disability Justice

Shoved From the Ivory Tower

DVP: 2022 Year in Review

Year of the Tiger x Umeshio collab

Society of Disabled Oracles

Year of the Tiger: Debut memoir by Alice Wong

Community As Home – Portraits

Release the Red Panda

Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle

My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay

Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology

On Madness

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

What Will Never Be Again

My MS and Me

May 2022 Philips Recall Summary