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Graphic with a soft pink background featuring a photo of Brianne, a white woman in her mid-30s wearing black framed glasses and dark brown hair in a messy bun, smiles at the camera. She’s wearing a grey tank top, holding the pink epoxy handle of her blonde wood cane up beside her face and sitting in front of a blurred off-white decorative screen. The photo has been cropped close around Brianne’s face, shoulders and cane handle.

Posted September 7, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

High-Risk Vaccine Hesitancy

High-Risk Vaccine Hesitancy Brianne Benness At this time last year, I didn’t know what to do about the flu vaccine. We were already in the thick of the pandemic: grieving … Continue Reading High-Risk Vaccine Hesitancy

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 September 1, 2021 DVP News and Events

Letter from Disabled Ventilator Users on Philips Respironics Recall

Below is an open letter from a number of disabled people in the US impacted by a recall of 13 ventilators, CPAPs and BiPaps manufactured by Philips Respironics including signatures … Continue Reading Letter from Disabled Ventilator Users on Philips Respironics Recall

A still from the animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch featuring the main characters from left to right: Crosshair, Echo, Hunter, Tech, and Wrecker. In the foreground on the lower right corner is the back of Omega, a young girl

Posted August 2, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Supercrips, Solidarity, and Crip Families in The Bad Batch

Supercrips, Solidarity, and Crip Families in The Bad Batch Dr. Johnathan Flowers Content notes: eugenics, applied behavioral analysis, torture, genetic manipulation, ableist terminology Spoilers below for The Bad Batch season … Continue Reading Supercrips, Solidarity, and Crip Families in The Bad Batch

Graphic with a navy blue background featuring a photo of Sandy Ho sitting in her power wheelchair in the middle of a field of green grass, with houses blurred in the background. She has short dark wavy hair and tortoise shell glasses on. Sandy is wearing maroon shoes, plaid pants, a dark gray cardigan, and a button-up blue and white striped collar shirt. She is smiling at the camera with her hands in her lap.

Posted July 25, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Moving From Survival

Moving From Survival Sandy Ho Editor’s note: This op-ed by the author was recently rejected by The New York Times’ (NYT) opinion section. In the midst of the … Continue Reading Moving From Survival

Graphic with a yellow background featuring a photo of a Black woman with curly natural, black hair and glasses in a blue chambray suit and white and blue polka dot top standing on crutches in an office.

Posted July 25, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Major Keys

Major Keys Britney Wilson In my sophomore year of high school I was nominated to attend the National Young Leaders Conference (NYLC) in Washington, D.C. The four-day conference … Continue Reading Major Keys

Qudsiya is wearing a blue dress and standing beside plants in front of a building on a city street.

Posted July 25, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire

Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire Qudsiya Naqui Content notes: ableist and sanist language, eugenics, suicide, medical neglect, suffering, abuse, violence, incarceration I first became interested … Continue Reading Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire

Posted July 12, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

We Move Together

We Move Together: Interview with Kelly Fritsch Megan Linton We Move Together is a joyful new children’s book about disability community and culture. In conversation with one of the … Continue Reading We Move Together

J. Logan Smilges, a white gender nonconforming trans person with a mustache, looks toward the camera without smiling. They are wearing a long-sleeve white shirt with ruffles down the middle and black pants with a checkered print. Photo credit: Darius Stokes

Posted July 6, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Pride Feelings

Pride Feelings J. Logan Smilges By the time this essay goes live, the United States will have emerged from LGBTQ Pride Month into Disability Pride Month. Most years I … Continue Reading Pride Feelings

The Chinese character for self (自/zì) and the character in can (可/kě) with the traditional Chinese character for love (愛/ài) inside the character for mouth (口/ kǒu). The letters are black and are centred on a translucent white inset rectangular background in front of a background of an abundant bush of leaves and pink-white roses.

Posted June 13, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue

Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue Jane Shi Content notes: child abandonment, abusive adoptive parents, anti-Asian violence and misogyny, mass shooting, ableist slurs and language, forced restraint of autistic people, … Continue Reading Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue

Posted June 8, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Disability, Death & the Fight for Justice

Disability, Death & the Fight for Justice Disability Justice in Canada amidst a time of pandemic Megan Linton Content notes: genocide, systemic ableism, medical aid in dying, eugenics, institutionalization, … Continue Reading Disability, Death & the Fight for Justice

[Left] Book cover with a white background and black text that reads: Goodbye, again. Essays, reflections & Illuminations. At the bottom black text that reads: Jonny Sun author of everyone’s a aliebn, when ur a aliebn too. Above the word ‘Sun’ is a small, delicate green leaf from a pothos plant. [Right] Jonny Sun, a young Chinese Canadian man with short black hair wearing an orange crewneck shirt. He is looking upward at the sky pensively. There is a deep blue background behind him. Photo credit: Rozette Rago

Posted June 6, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Jonny Sun

Jonny Sun is someone I followed on Twitter for a while and I really appreciate his work and observations about life. Jonny’s latest book, Goodbye, again, gave me so much … Continue Reading Q&A with Jonny Sun

Graphic with a coral orange background featuring a tarot card of The Graduate illustrated by Kat Woodward. The Graduate is at once grounded in the earth and floating in space, surrounded by pieces of paper scattered to the wind. In the center is a figure with a graduation cap perched carefully atop their head and a burgeoning phoenix at their chest. Behind the Graduate are two winding paths and a gilded, golden cage with flowers blooming from its partially broken bars.

Posted June 3, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

The Graduate tarot card

The Graduate By Anna Landre, Madeleine Gibbons-Shapiro, & the Georgetown University Disability Studies Class of 2021 To commemorate and reflect upon our college graduation, members of the Georgetown University … Continue Reading The Graduate tarot card

White background with orbiting multi-color-speckled brushstrokes. Title (in bolded black text): “Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity." Below it, in gold: "Winner of the Autism Society of America's Outstanding Literary Work of the Year." Below it: "Edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport, and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu"

Posted May 12, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Interview with co-editors of Sincerely, Your Autistic Child

Below is an interview with Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport, and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, the co-editors of a brand new anthology, Sincerely, Your Autistic Child (Beacon Books), available now. For … Continue Reading Interview with co-editors of Sincerely, Your Autistic Child

Photo of an ambulance on a highway with hues of red and blue light

Posted April 19, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

The New National Mental Health Crisis Line Wants to Track Your Location

The New National Mental Health Crisis Line Wants to Track Your Location L. Harris Content warnings: Police violence against mad and disabled people; involuntary mental health interventions … Continue Reading The New National Mental Health Crisis Line Wants to Track Your Location

Graphic with a white background [left] Cheryl Green, a white woman with olive skin and long, dark brown, curly hair stands outside by a red wall that vanishes behind her in the distance. [middle] Portrait photo of Geraldine Ah-Sue, an Asian American woman looking directly in the camera with a slight half smile. She is wearing a light blue button-up shirt and a long earring on her right ear. [right] A photo of Sarika Mehta, a brown woman with long, curly, black hair, stands smiling while playing a ukulele. She is visibly pregnant, wearing a dark purple dress. The background shows a green wall with small paintings of flowers hanging.

Posted April 3, 2021 Podcast

Ep 100: Podcasting

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/FINAL_EP_100.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSS Today’s subject is this podcast because it’s episode 100!! Whether … Continue Reading Ep 100: Podcasting

Graphic with a black background showing an outline of the state of Texas in white. Surrounding it are lightning bolts in white in various sizes.

Posted March 23, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

The System is Down

The System is Down: The Ableism of Texas’ Power Grid, Covid Response, and Disability Representation Adam Hubrig On February 15, 2021 around the tenth hour without power in my … Continue Reading The System is Down