CategoryDVP Blog Posts and Essays

Sara Hendren, a white middle aged woman with brown hair and brown eyes, sits in front of a weathered wood fence, wearing an olive linen jacket.

Posted 4 days ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Sara Hendren

Below is an interview with Sara Hendren, artist, design researcher, writer, and professor, who has a new book What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World (Riverhead … Continue Reading Q&A with Sara Hendren

Five disabled people of color with canes, prosthetic legs, and a wheelchair sit on a rooftop deck, laughing and sharing stories. Greenery and city high-rises are visible in the background. Photo credit: Disabled and Here https://affecttheverb.com/disabledandhere/

Posted 2 months ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Freedom for Some Is Not Freedom for All

Freedom for Some Is Not Freedom for All: COVID-19, Institutions, and Disability Rights Alice Wong Freedom for some is not freedom for all. As a high-risk disabled Californian … Continue Reading Freedom for Some Is Not Freedom for All

Posted 2 months ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Message to The Future

Last week Rose Eveleth’s Flash Forward podcast celebrated its fifth year with an episode featuring messages to 50 years in the future from past guests including myself. I can only … Continue Reading Message to The Future

A photo of Stacey Park Milbern, a mixed race Korean and white queer person, holding a paper sign that reads “Cherished.” The photo is stylistically torn at the edges with cursive text appearing across the bottom, “Stacey Milbern.”

Posted 3 months ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

#StaceyTaughtUs Syllabus: Work by Stacey Park Milbern

#StaceyTaughtUs Syllabus Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Alice Wong Stacey Park Milbern taught us so much. Here is a syllabus with a small sample of her work through interviews, blog … Continue Reading #StaceyTaughtUs Syllabus: Work by Stacey Park Milbern

A mixed race Korean and white queer person smiles head on at the camera. She has big glasses and is wearing a crewneck. Her trach and wheelchair can be seen.

Posted 3 months ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Loving Stacey Park Milbern: A Remembrance

My friend Stacey Park Milbern died today, May 19, 2020, on her birthday. I haven’t cried yet and am overwhelmed with gratitude for knowing and loving her. I feel sadness … Continue Reading Loving Stacey Park Milbern: A Remembrance

Photo of Héctor M. Ramírez, a Latino Chiricahua Apache man wearing a maroon t-shirt that says ASL with 2 illustrations of hands spelling ‘a’ and ‘f’ as in af meaning “as fuck”. His right hand is showing the sign, "I love you" in American Sign Language.

Posted 3 months ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Food Insecurity & COVID-19: Interview with Héctor M. Ramírez

Interview with Héctor M. Ramírez on hunger and food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic This is a condensed interview with Héctor M. Ramírez, a disability rights advocate who volunteers at … Continue Reading Food Insecurity & COVID-19: Interview with Héctor M. Ramírez

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Posted May 4, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

7 Documentaries to Watch After Crip Camp

7 Documentaries by Deaf and Disabled People to Watch After Crip Camp If you recently watched Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution and want to learn more here are 7 … Continue Reading 7 Documentaries to Watch After Crip Camp

Asian American woman in a power chair sitting at a patio with a red hoodie and a floral print handkerchief around her mouth. She’s wearing a mask over her nose attached to a gray tube.

Posted April 29, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

DVP Coronavirus Stories

What is life? 2020 has certainly taken a turn. Like, seriously! Storytelling is more important than ever during the coronavirus pandemic as we see disabled, sick, and immunocompromised share their … Continue Reading DVP Coronavirus Stories

A brown round queer with glasses and short spiky hair performs at a microphone in front of the rainbow and transgender flags. They smile holding a microphone with their hand outstretched.

Posted March 29, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Kay Ulanday Barrett

Editor’s note: Below is an interview with Kay Ulanday Barrett, someone I admired for a long time from afar about a new book of poetry by Kay, More Than Organs, available … Continue Reading Q&A with Kay Ulanday Barrett

Photo of an Asian American woman in a power chair. She is wearing an orange-red jacket and black pants. She is wearing a mask over her nose attached to a gray tube and bright red lip color. Her hands are resting over her joystick. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography

Posted March 18, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Disabled Oracles and the Coronavirus

Disabled people know what it means to be vulnerable and interdependent. We are modern-day oracles. It’s time people listened to us. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, systems have always … Continue Reading Disabled Oracles and the Coronavirus

Posted March 9, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Marieke Nijkamp: The Oracle Code

Q&A with Marieke Nijkamp: The Oracle Code *This Q&A contains spoilers for the graphic novel, The Oracle Code available March 10, 2020, DC Comics Content warnings: eugenics, institutionalization, ableism, … Continue Reading Q&A with Marieke Nijkamp: The Oracle Code

A brown-haired brown-eyed woman stands smiling beside a tree trunk. She wears a deep green shirt and an ivory cardigan.

Posted February 10, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Amanda Leduc on Fairy Tales and Disability

Tell me a little about yourself! I’m a disabled Canadian writer with cerebral palsy currently living in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. I’ve always been interested in the weird and wonderful—my first … Continue Reading Q&A with Amanda Leduc on Fairy Tales and Disability

Photo on the of an Asian American disabled woman in a wheelchair in front of a pool of water with tropical water plants in the background lit with purple & magenta lights inside a greenhouse. She is wearing a puffy gray jacket and a mask over her nose attached to a tube.

Posted December 30, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

DVP 2019: Year in Review

Hello friends! Time flies, seriously. In 2014 the Disability Visibility Project (DVP) started a year before the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and here we are about … Continue Reading DVP 2019: Year in Review

Photo of Nadia LaSpina, an Italian American woman with long curly gray hair with a microphone in front of her. She is wearing a black puffy jacket outdoors.

Posted November 22, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Book excerpt from Nadina LaSpina’s memoir “Such a Pretty Girl”

The following is a short adapted excerpt from Chapter 24 in a new memoir by Nadina LaSpina, Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride. Chapter … Continue Reading Book excerpt from Nadina LaSpina’s memoir “Such a Pretty Girl”

Book cover is of a woman of color's face with symbols and compass overlay. Title reads: The Labyrinth's Archivist: A Broken Cities Novella by Day Al-Mohamed

Posted November 13, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Day Al-Mohamed on fantasy and queer disabled representation

Below is an interview with Day Al-Mohamed, author of The Labyrinth’s Archivist: A Broken Cities Novella (2019). You can hear more from Day in a 2018 episode of the Disability … Continue Reading Q&A with Day Al-Mohamed on fantasy and queer disabled representation

Latina woman with short black and grey hair, wearing brown-rimmed glasses and yellow sweater with white polka dots smiles widely at her desk.

Posted November 6, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice

Below is an interview with Dr. Michelle Nario-Redmond, author of a new book, Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice (2019, Wiley-Blackwell). Tell me a little about yourself! I’m … Continue Reading Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice