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Several months ago, Kanye West called out people with disabilities at his concert, stopping everything, demanding to know why they aren’t standing and dancing. David Perry wrote about this incident … Continue Reading How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Hidden Disabilities; or, You Have No Idea What You Are Seeing by David Perry
On September 8, 2014, Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone featured a guest blog post by Morénike Onaiwu about the importance of the Autism and Race Anthology. Below are excerpts from Morénike’s blog post, … Continue Reading Guest blog post on autism and race by Morénike Onaiwu
The Disability Visibility Project loves tumblrs. We came across so many powerful and thoughtful tumblrs (and lots of funny cat ones too) such as Letters to Thrive, a tumblr of … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Enough Enough by Kristen
There’s still a long way to go when it comes to equal access to public transit. Jessie Lorenz, Executive Director of the Independent Living Resource Center of San Francisco, wrote … Continue Reading Opinion piece by Jessie Lorenz: BART’s fleet of the future leave some behind
Dear The Ellen Show, One of my favorite parts of The Ellen Show is when Ellen busts a move and dances with the audience at the start of each episode. … Continue Reading Dear Ellen Degeneres, From A Wheelchair-Using Viewer
Poetry has a way of speaking truth to power. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 was passed to promote equal opportunity for people with disabilities. To commemorate and … Continue Reading Poetry by Kathryn Carroll
“You and I are worth more than our production. Your body, my body is more than a means to an end. We need to challenge and really talk about who … Continue Reading People We Love: Ki’tay Davidson
Ali Murphy interviewed Steve Lee on October 2, 2014 at StoryCorps San Francisco. Below are a few approximate excerpts from their conversation. On being born with a disability in Hong … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Project: Steve Lee
From their About Us page: FacingDisability.com was specifically created to connect families who suddenly have to deal with a spinal cord injury with people like them who have already “been … Continue Reading Media Partner #79: Facing Disability, Chicago, IL
The Disability Visibility Project has posted various blog posts about the history of the 504 sit in. Here is a piece by activist Leroy Moore originally published on February 11, … Continue Reading Guest blog post by Leroy Moore: Black History of 504 sit-in for Disability Rights
“You Get Proud By Practicing,” is a poem by Laura Hershey that is beloved by many in the disability community. It resonates strongly with the Disability Visibility Project. You can … Continue Reading Poem by Laura Hershey: “You Get Proud By Practicing”
Nick Dupree is a blogger and artist who happens to love bunnies (we love bunnies too at the DVP). From his website he describes himself: I’m Nick, a 32 year-old … Continue Reading Guest blog post: “That’s Not My Job” (Angry Rant) by Nick Dupree
This is a guest blog post by Denise DiNoto for the blog AbleBodies originally published on October 1, 2014. Below are a few excerpts: “How do you ‘manage’ life as … Continue Reading Guest post by Denise DiNoto: “How do you ‘manage’ life as a woman with a disability?”
Andrew Pulrang is one of our media partners and a prolific blogger over at Disability Thinking. The following is an excerpt of a post he published on July 23, 2014. … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Digging Up Disability History by Andrew Pulrang
Alice Wong, Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, had a chance to interview her friend Janni Lehrer-Stein on September 25, 2014 at StoryCorps San Francisco. This is the second … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Project: Janni Lehrer-Stein, Part 2
Alice Wong, Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, had a chance to interview her friend Janni Lehrer-Stein on September 25, 2014 at StoryCorps San Francisco. This is the first … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Project: Janni Lehrer-Stein, San Francisco, CA