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A poster for CRIP CAMP. Image is a vintage color snapshot. A person who appears to be a young white male is sitting in a manual wheelchair. A person who appears to be a black male is standing behind the wheelchair user. His left hand is holding onto the wheelchair handle. His right hand is holding a guitar slung over his shoulder. In the background are low slung bunks and buildings. Text on the poster reads (from top left to bottom right): From Executive Producers President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. A Netflix original documentary. CRIP CAMP: A Disability Revolution. An award laurel reads: Winner Audience Award U. S. Documentary Sundance film festival 2020. On Netflix March 25.

4/1 #CripCampNetflix Twitter Chat

Let’s talk about the power of disability activism, culture, and community! The Disability Visibility Project invites you to a Twitter chat about the documentary film Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution … Continue Reading 4/1 #CripCampNetflix Twitter Chat

Posted 3 weeks ago 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

Posted 3 weeks ago Guest Blog Posts

Yes, It Is About Disability: Reflections on Disability and Media Criticism After Sundance 2020

Yes, It Is About Disability: Reflections on Disability and Media Criticism After Sundance 2020 Laura Dorwart *Editor’s note from Alice Wong: full disclosure–I am working as a consultant for Netflix … Continue Reading Yes, It *Is* About Disability: Reflections on Disability and Media Criticism After Sundance 2020

Posted 3 weeks ago Podcast

Ep 72: Disabled Curators

Two photos side by side of André J. Daughtry and Cherry Thompson: [left] Photo of André J. Daughtry, a Black man sitting in a motorized wheelchair, wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans. [right] Cherry Smiling at the camera with their one eyed cat Odin on their lap.

Posted 1 month ago Podcast

Ep 71: Games

Posted 2 months ago DVP News and Events

Mission Viejo Library Access and Inclusion Survey

Update: Survey extended until March 31, 2020! The Mission Viejo Library wants to know how they can better serve people with disabilities in the community. The library will be spending … Continue Reading Mission Viejo Library Access and Inclusion Survey

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

Posted 2 months ago 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 of Jade Bryan, a Black Deaf woman sitting in a director’s chair outdoors with trees and parked cars behind her. She is wearing all black, and a black beret and glasses. Her left leg is crossed over her right, both arms folded.

Posted 2 months ago Podcast

Ep 70: Black Deaf Filmmakers

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Community as Home: Call for Stories

Deadline for submissions: March 6, 2020 #CommunityAsHome is a collaboration by two disabled artists of color, Ashanti Fortson and Alice Wong, featuring 15 digital portraits and stories representing the diversity … Continue Reading Community as Home: Call for Stories

[Left] Photo of Samuel Valdez, performing in his show And He Became Man. A Latino disabled man questions his manhood by looking back at his life recalling major events influencing him, asking, “What is a man”. [Right] Photo of Jason Dorwart, a white male about 40 years old with a long beard and greying hair looks at the camera. He wears a blue and red plaid shirt. Behind him is a mural silver, pink, and blue graffiti lettering.

Posted 2 months ago Podcast

Ep 69: Theatre

Graphic with a white background and at the top is a row of colorful paint in rainbow colors dripping down. Text in black at the bottom reads #ADA30InColor

Posted 2 months ago DVP News and Events

#ADA30InColor: Call for Stories

#ADA30InColor: Call for Stories Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2020 The Disability Visibility Project will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a series … Continue Reading #ADA30InColor: Call for Stories

Posted 3 months ago Podcast

Ep 68: Accessibility

Digital art of 6 people of different ages, races and disabilities, service dog. Text: How an Accurate Census Count Benefits Disabled People. Join us February 5, 2020 at 3PM. A #DOnetwork Twitter Chat. Logos: Disability Organizing Network, DREDF, California Census, and Disability Visibility, Twitter bird.

Posted 3 months ago DVP News and Events

2/5 #DOnetwork Twitter Chat on Census 2020

#DisabilityCounts2020: How an Accurate Census Count Benefits Disabled People February 5, 2020 3-4 PM Pacific In partnership with the Disability Organizing (DO) Network, the Disability Visibility Project will host a … Continue Reading 2/5 #DOnetwork Twitter Chat on Census 2020

The photo shows the head and shoulders of a white woman, with make up and red lipstick, staring directly at you with her dark brown eyes. A slim woman, her navy blue long sleeved top frames her bare neck and her straight, dark brown hair frames her face and her high forehead.

Posted December 29, 2019 Podcast

Ep 67: Disabled Actors

Imade Nibokun, a Black woman with short hair smiling

Posted December 1, 2019 Podcast

Ep 65: Black Mental Health

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”