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Photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American disabled woman in a power chair. She is wearing an orange and black tiger-striped sweater, black pants, a bold red lip color and a trach at her neck. In the background is a gray cement wall with greenery. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography.

Posted 2 weeks ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Adventures in Public Speaking

Today, September 14, 2023, I gave a virtual talk at Boston University’s School of Public Health about my anthology Disability Visibility since the school selected my book as their 2023 … Continue Reading Adventures in Public Speaking

Photo of Alice Wong in front of a cement wall. She is wearing a blue cardigan and sitting in a power chair. She is staring intently at the camera, wearing a bold red lip color, and a trach at her neck. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography.

Posted February 22, 2023 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Creativity and Recovery: An Update

Last summer I wrote about several major medical crises that led to 4 weeks in the intensive care unit. Months later, my recovery has been slow, difficult, and frustrating. Healing … Continue Reading Creativity and Recovery: An Update

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.

Posted January 10, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

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 January 7, 2023 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 January 1, 2023 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

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

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Posted May 17, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

My MS and Me

My MS and Me Carolyn Hinds I’m not sure where or how I should start this essay. As I sit in bed with my laptop resting on the … Continue Reading My MS and Me

This is a graphic illustration by Haley Brown with a bright cobalt blue background. There are black lungs filled with dark gray puffy clouds. In the left lung is a yellow canary bird with a red eye in a mid-flight attack pose. In the right lung there is a red circle. Around the lungs there is clear white tubing that is entwined. Above this graphic the white text reads: #SuckYouPhilips

Posted May 13, 2022 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

May 2022 Philips Recall Summary

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

Posted February 6, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions

February 17, 2022 update: press release by Disabled Student Union and UCLA Student Body President Breeze Velasquez. We, the Disabled Student Union, the Mother Organizations Coalition, and Undergraduate … Continue Reading Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions

Posted February 1, 2022 DVP News and Events

Year of the Tiger: Upcoming memoir by Alice Wong

Happy Lunar New Year, y’all! Roaring your way September 6, 2022: my debut memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life, is something I worked on for the last year … Continue Reading Year of the Tiger: Upcoming memoir by Alice Wong

Graphic with a blue-gray background. In the center is a photo of a white, nonbinary, disabled fat person sits on a tan couch with their legs folded. They are wearing a wine red cardigan and a blue striped scarf, and have long, dark curly pulled back in a hair clip and have a dark beard. They are drinking a cup of tea and looking down at a tan cat sitting in their lap and petting the cat.

Posted January 26, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Disabled Deaths Are Not Your “Encouraging News”

Disabled Deaths Are Not Your “Encouraging News”: Resisting The Cruel Eugenics of Comorbidity Rhetoric Ada Hubrig “Comorbidities” is a weaselly, cruel, violent word. This word, this concept, of … Continue Reading Disabled Deaths Are Not Your “Encouraging News”

Graphic in red with starburst designs on the left and right. In the center in large sized text: 2021, below in smaller sized font in white: Disability Visibility Project Year in Review

Posted January 9, 2022 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

DVP: 2021 Year in Review

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

Petra and Neil are sitting side-by-side in their wheelchairs in or just outside a building in Honolulu. Petra, a smiling woman with short hair and glasses, is wearing a bright yellow top and wearing a lei as she gazes at Neil, to her left. Neil, a man with short hair and a beard, both dark with some gray mixed in, is wearing a white shirt and a lei, and gazing mischievously toward Petra. Courtesy of Petra Kuppers.

Posted January 9, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Reading Storms, Embracing Life: A Remembrance of Neil Marcus

Reading Storms, Embracing Life: A Remembrance of Neil Marcus Steven E. Brown “I’m a human bridge in a moment of time, spanning as far and as relevant as … Continue Reading Reading Storms, Embracing Life: A Remembrance of Neil Marcus