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Below is an interview with actor, director, producer, and activist Diana Elizabeth Jordan. Diana recently participated in the 2019 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge as the director of “I Can,” a … Continue Reading Disabled Film Directors: Interview with Diana Elizabeth Jordan
Below is an interview with Katherine Beattie, a writer for the CBS series NCIS: New Orleans. Katherine shares the behind-the-scenes story of an episode she wrote this season featuring a … Continue Reading Disability Representation on TV: Interview with Katherine Beattie
Below is an interview with Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán regarding a recent open letter by a group of lawyers, law students, and advocates to the Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium Steering Committee. … Continue Reading 2019 tenBroek Disability Law Symposium: Interview with Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán
Interview with Paul David Power Tell me a little about yourself and what drew you to the theatre and arts. I was born with a disability that requires the … Continue Reading Is Disability ‘Culturally Unique’? Interview with Paul David Power
This is an interview with Belo Cipriani, the editor and publisher of a new anthology featuring coming-of-age stories by disabled writers. Congratulations on the recent publication of Firsts: Coming of … Continue Reading Interview with Belo Cipriani
Activist Arjun Sethi reached out to me last year about a series of interviews for a book about hate in America. I’m glad that he included a disabled person in a … Continue Reading American Hate: Interview with Arjun Singh Sethi
Dominick Evans is a friend and frequent collaborator with the Disability Visibility Project. Activist Arjun Sethi reached out to me last year about a book on hate in America featuring people from … Continue Reading American Hate: Interview with Dominick Evans
11th grade history US history students at Gann Academy spent an entire year interviewing people, collecting artifacts, conducting oral histories and research, and creating a museum exhibit on disability history. … Continue Reading Disability History in the US: Interview with Anna Caine and Tal Chafetz
11th grade history US history students at Gann Academy spent an entire year interviewing people, collecting artifacts, conducting oral histories and research, and creating a museum exhibit on disability history. … Continue Reading Disability History in the US: Interview with Teddy Bennett and Daniel Rabinovitz
Nicola Griffith and I are co-partners in #CripLit, a series of Twitter chats for disabled writers about disability representation in literature. Join us on 5/19 when we host our … Continue Reading Interview with Nicola Griffith, Author of So Lucky, A New Novel
By Sandy Ho The upcoming Disability & Intersectionality Summit (DIS) happening Saturday October 13th in Cambridge, MA began as an idea in response to the question “but how can we … Continue Reading Disability & Intersectionality Summit: Holly Pearson and Lydia X. Z. Brown
By Sandy Ho The purpose of the upcoming Disability & Intersectionality Summit (DIS) is to flip the flow of power and conversation towards disability justice to center marginalized disabled people, … Continue Reading Disability & Intersectionality Summit: Interview with Sharon daVanport
The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) and the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine (UCSF) released a report on March 13, 2018 titled, Accessibility, Inclusion, and Action in … Continue Reading Medical Education and Students with Disabilities: Interview with Neera R. Jain
I am a lover all all types of media, including graphic novels and comic books. Here’s an interview with Nadia Shammas about her current project, CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily … Continue Reading CORPUS Comics Anthology: Interview with Nadia Shammas
What. A. Year. Not really sure which expletive I want to use to describe 2017…perhaps all of them? As a disabled person living in this hostile political climate in the … Continue Reading DVP 2017: Year in Review
Superfest International Disability Film Festival is the longest running disability film festival in the world. Co-hosted by San Francisco’s Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Paul K. Longmore Institute on … Continue Reading Celebrating Disability Culture: Interview with #Superfest2017 Judges