"Creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture"
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
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
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 impacted … Continue Reading Update on Philips CPAP, BiPAP, and Ventilator Recall
Since March 2020 I have been collecting strands of disabled wisdom about the pandemic and trying to gather, weave, and share them. Disabled, fat, older, poor, immunocompromised, and chronically ill … Continue Reading High-Risk Pandemic Stories: A Syllabus
Happy New Year! Better late than never, am I right? 2021 was SOME year. Too many expletives cannot adequately express my frustration and concern right now. I hope you are … Continue Reading DVP: 2021 Year in Review
I love pies and any kind of baked goods. Below is my interview with Maya-Camille Broussard, the founder and creator of Justice of the Pies, a bakery based in Chicago. … Continue Reading Interview with Maya-Camille Broussard
Congratulations on your first memoir, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, available October 26, 2021 from Simon and Schuster! How are you feeling right now in … Continue Reading Q&A with Elsa Sjunneson
Disabled people belong everywhere and it was exciting to several disabled people appointed to key positions in the Biden administration. Below is an interview with Emily Voorde, a person I … Continue Reading Q&A with Emily Voorde
![[Left] Book cover with a white background and black text that reads: Goodbye, again. Essays, reflections & Illuminations. At the bottom black text that reads: Jonny Sun author of everyone’s a aliebn, when ur a aliebn too. Above the word ‘Sun’ is a small, delicate green leaf from a pothos plant. [Right] Jonny Sun, a young Chinese Canadian man with short black hair wearing an orange crewneck shirt. He is looking upward at the sky pensively. There is a deep blue background behind him. Photo credit: Rozette Rago](https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IG-Jonny-Sun.png?resize=700%2C476&ssl=1)
Jonny Sun is someone I followed on Twitter for a while and I really appreciate his work and observations about life. Jonny’s latest book, Goodbye, again, gave me so much … Continue Reading Q&A with Jonny Sun
Below is an interview with Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport, and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, the co-editors of a brand new anthology, Sincerely, Your Autistic Child (Beacon Books), available now. For … Continue Reading Interview with co-editors of Sincerely, Your Autistic Child
![[left] Photo of Kemi Yemi-Ese, a young Nigerian American Black woman with long black braids. Kemi is painting at her easel while sitting in her manual wheelchair. The canvas is of a wooden fence and a field of bright blue-purple flowers. [right] Photo of Kemi Yemi-Ese, a young Nigerian American Black woman with long black braids. She is wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and her hands are clasped in front of her. Behind her are two canvases featuring her paintings, the one on the left is light blue painting with abstract shapes and the one on the right is a painting of an elder Black man](https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/KEMI-Twitter.png?resize=700%2C476&ssl=1)
After the media coverage of a major natural disaster ends, people are left to recover and pick up the pieces. For some disabled people impacted by the power outages and … Continue Reading Q&A with Kemi Yemi-Ese
![[left] An illustration of a child facing the right with neck-length, matted brown hair, standing in front of a faded yellow sun that encircles the profile of the child's face. The child is wearing a burgundy tank top which is partially covered by tall red grass that also covers the bottom of the illustration all the way up to the child's chest. The child's face is hidden behind the mask of another face resembling an adult Hari Ziyad with facial hair and their eyes closed, and there is an outgrowth of dandelions between the two faces. There is an orange butterfly flying to the left of the child's hair and a yellow butterfly flying in front of the hair, and everything is drawn over a pink background. In small cursive white letters above the sun are the words "a memoir," and in white block letters over the child's face are the words "BLACK BOY OUT OF TIME." At the bottom over the red grass are smaller white block letters reading, "HARI ZIYAD." [right] Hari Ziyad, a Black person with a bald head and short facial hair, stands in front of a dark grey background looking into the camera with a slight smile. They are shown from the shoulders up wearing a black knitted sweater, with a black circular earring in their left ear. Photo by Brandon Nick](https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HARI-TWITTER.png?resize=700%2C476&ssl=1)
Interview with Hari Ziyad Please tell me a little about yourself! I am a storyteller from Cleveland, Ohio, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. I come from a blended … Continue Reading Interview with Hari Ziyad
Below is a conversation I had with my friend Ingrid Tischer on February 20, 2021. Ingrid is one of the first close friends I made when I moved to San … Continue Reading Q&A with Ingrid Tischer
![Meme showing two images: [left] a scene from the Real Housewives Bravo tv show of a blond woman with her mouth wide open and hand pointing in accusatory rage with her friend by her side, another housewife with long brown hair. Text beneath: VACCINE PRIORITIZATION BY STATE. [right] a white cat sitting at a dining table with its ears flattened in irritation. A plate of cooked green vegetables is in front of the cat. Text beneath: HIGH RISK PEOPLE TRYING TO GET APPOINTMENTS](https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/4zpd6k.jpg?resize=700%2C326&ssl=1)
I faced some ups and downs lately with my search for a vaccine appointment as a high-risk person under 65. There are many others in California and everywhere in the … Continue Reading Vaccine Equity Memes
Statement Regarding State Policy on Vaccination of People with High-Risk Conditions We are very happy to see that the State of California shared a plan on February 12 to vaccinate … Continue Reading 2/24 Statement Regarding State Policy on Vaccination of People with High-Risk Conditions
Social media can be trash but it’s not *all* trash. I learn so much from people I follow on Twitter such as Tory Cross. Here is an interview with Tory … Continue Reading Q&A with Tory Cross