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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
Thank you to Dr. Rob Wilson, Project Director of the Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada, for sharing this project with us. In addition to databases, timelines and information … Continue Reading Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada
Working way too many hours as a lawyer, I signed up for a storytelling class to make myself leave work at least once a week at a decent time. I … Continue Reading The Power of Storytelling By Anne Thomas
Joshua St. Pierre, Zach Richter and Erin Schick created the Did I Stutter Project, a disability activist project for stutterers by stutterers. Below are excerpts of a blog post by … Continue Reading It’s time to take back our speech: Did I stutter? By Joshua St. Pierre
Earlier the Disability Visibility Project re-blogged a post by Latina feminist Dior Vargas. She is spearheading the People Of Color & Mental Illness Photo Project, a campaign collecting photos from … Continue Reading People Of Color & Mental Illness Photo Project
Earlier last November the Disability Visibility Project posted a poem by one of our media partners, Susan Mazrui. With her permission, here is a re-post of another poem: Disability: The Power and the Pride. Disability: The Power and … Continue Reading Disability: The Power and the Pride by Susan Mazrui
Historian Dr. Sheila Hanlon’s research interests include Victorian and Edwardian cycling history and the WWI and WWII Women’s Land Army, both in Canada and Britain. She is also curator of … Continue Reading Rosa May Billinghurst: Suffragette on Three Wheels by Sheila Hanlon
The Disability Visibility Project loves it when people reach out to us and share their projects on disability history. Sarika D. Metha is a Producer for APA Compass on KBOO 90.7 FM, specializing … Continue Reading Deaf South Asian Americans: Shazia’s First Days
Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project interviewed Nina G on October 2, 2014 at StoryCorps San Francisco. This is the last of two blog posts about their interview. Below … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Nina G and Alice Wong, Part 2
The Disability Visibility Project is thrilled to have one of our stories recorded for StoryCorps featured on NPR’s Morning Edition on January 16, 2015. Thank you to the good folks … Continue Reading DVP on NPR!
Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project interviewed Nina G on October 2, 2014 at StoryCorps San Francisco. This is the first of two blog posts about their interview. Below … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Nina G and Alice Wong
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: Jack Catlin, Chicago, IL
This is a blog post originally published on January 16, 2014 for BK Nation, “Disability Justice and Social Justice: Entwined Histories and Futures” by Alice Wong, Project Coordinator of the … Continue Reading Disability Justice and Social Justice: Entwined Histories and Futures
This is a blog post by Dior Vargas about her experience as a Latina feminist dealing with depression first published on August 19, 2014. Below are a few excerpts from … Continue Reading Sigue Y Sigue by Dior Vargas