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Posted 4 weeks ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Keep Masks in Health Care

I gave a short speech on April 16, 2024 in front of the San Francisco Department of Public at a protest organized by Senior and Disability Action. We called … Continue Reading Keep Masks in Health Care

Graphic with a black background featuring photos of people. From left to right: A photo of Maria, a Latina woman with long dark hair wearing a shirt that says “Piss On Pity,” with red lips and a huge smile. She is seated in her wheelchair in front of a fence with a large sign or vehicle behind her. There is a red strap around her waist, connected to something off-screen. She appears to be at a protest or direct action. A photo of three UPRISE COLLECTIVE staff members. Brianna who is on the right is a Native/Ihanktonwan person, wearing black mask, green shirt, golden bear-shaped necklace, and wood earrings with abalone shells. In the middle is Stephanie, a Black/Native woman wearing black mask and grey cardigan. Their black hair is tied in the back. On the left is Ginia, a Blauan person, wearing a white mask, multi-colored shirt, and jeans. They are all posing in front of a blackboard. A photo of Ínaru, a non-binary black person that has brown colored skin, big lips, big cheeks, upturned eyes, wide nose and ears holding fungus stud earrings. Their haircut is a small afro and they are wearing a white shirt with a brown-colored cardigan that has black, velvet and white lines that run from the upper to the latter part of the cloth. A photo of Ashley, olive-skinned Filipina/White woman with curled reddish brown hair down to her shoulders, smiling with her head slightly to the side. She is sitting in a power wheelchair wearing a black cocktail dress with a gold zipper going down the middle with her hands crossed in her lap. Full front photo of Germán Parodi. A Puerto Rican man sitting in his wheelchair with a slight grin and hands crossed on his lap. He has brown skin, and shoulder length curly dark brown hair. He is wearing a black long sleeve shirt that says “Our Homes Not Nursing Homes ADAPT ” on it and a gray zip-up sweater on top. Behind him appears a painting with multi-colored triangles. A photo of Rickii, Black woman with curled medium-length brown hair smiling at the camera. She is wearing pearl necklace and green shirt

Posted January 31, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

We Survive Together: Interviews with Organizations Fighting against Disaster Ableism and Injustices: Part 2

We Survive Together: Interviews with Organizations Fighting against Disaster Ableism and Injustices: Part 2 Akemi Nishida *La version en español de este artículo estará disponible pronto en esta … Continue Reading We Survive Together: Interviews with Organizations Fighting against Disaster Ableism and Injustices: Part 2

A picture of me, an Asian American disabled woman in a wheelchair, a tracheostomy is in my throat connected to a ventilator tube. I am in the emergency room at UCSF Moffitt/Long hospital. I am swaddled in blankets, my eyes are closed, and I am trying to sleep as I am waiting for test results and a bed in the intensive care unit. Behind me is a computer monitor with a bright glow. On a table in front of me is a wheelchair battery charger.

Posted January 25, 2024 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

#N95s4UCSF: Call to Action

#N95s4UCSF: Call to Action I’m alive, bitches! My recent column in Teen Vogue about the surge and its impact on me as a high risk disabled person became … Continue Reading #N95s4UCSF: Call to Action

Horizontal view of a COVID test with two lines indicating it is positive.

Posted January 2, 2024 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon

Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon Alice Wong This summer marks my tenth year on the hellsite known as Twitter. I honed my voice as a writer, found community, and carved … Continue Reading Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon

Digital sketch drawing by Kalyn Heffernan of Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh on the front lines in Gaza. Holding high a peace sign and the Palestinian flag in a wheelchair as a double amputee with no legs. Shot and killed by israeli soldiers at 29 yrs old after being shot losing both his legs for protesting

Posted November 12, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

CRIP CALL TO ACTION: Why disabled people living in the US need to be calling for a long lasting ceasefire in Israel-Palestine

CRIP CALL TO ACTION: Why disabled people living in the US need to be calling for a long lasting ceasefire in Israel-Palestine Allie Cannington Content warnings: death, suffering, genocide, … Continue Reading CRIP CALL TO ACTION: Why disabled people living in the US need to be calling for a long lasting ceasefire in Israel-Palestine

Background with a light pink background. Selfie of a white woman with dark hair and eyes with an NJ tube on her face, next to a white toy poodle, and with her feed hanging on a frame with a pump attached.

Posted October 28, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

What Are You Looking At? Ableist Abuse in Public Spaces

What Are You Looking At? Ableist Abuse in Public Spaces Harrie Larrington-Spencer TW: Tube feeding, ableist abuse, eating, starvation “What the f*ck is that on her face?” … Continue Reading What Are You Looking At? Ableist Abuse in Public Spaces

Posted June 11, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

Honoring All of Ourselves: On Disability and Transness

Honoring All of Ourselves: On Disability and Transness ada hubrig “The lines of united ableism and trans hatred are crystal clear. We must inform ourselves and our communities. … Continue Reading Honoring All of Ourselves: On Disability and Transness

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 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

Graphic with a teal background featuring a photo is of Anna, a white nonbinary person with shoulder-length blond hair, standing in front of a beige wall. They wear a muted orange shirt.

Posted April 10, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore: It feels like I am seeing a guy stick his head into an alligator’s mouth … Continue Reading Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore

Graphic with a dark red background and in the center a photo of a white woman, smiling and standing with her hands on her hips and head slightly tilted to the left, in front of a gray granite wall. She has short brown hair in an asymmetrical haircut, longer on her left side and shorter on her right side. She is wearing dangling silver earrings and a gray t-shirt that reads "Kaepernick 7" in red, underneath a black blazer.

Posted March 7, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism

Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism Christine Mitchell I’m tired. We’re all tired, collectively. It has been a long two years of heightened anxiety and isolation … Continue Reading Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism

Posted February 8, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence

Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence Marley Molkentin and Kennedy Healy Note from the authors: The below photos were taken in Winter and Spring of 2021 in … Continue Reading Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence

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”

Posted November 11, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

How CBT Harmed Me: The Interview That the New York Times Erased

How CBT Harmed Me: The Interview That the New York Times Erased Alana Saltz In August, I was contacted by a reporter writing an article for the New York … Continue Reading How CBT Harmed Me: The Interview That the New York Times Erased

$Graphic with a leaf green background. Left: A white woman with short hair and an occluded cataract on her right eye wearing purple hearing aids and a pearl necklace, looking with raised eyebrows at camera between trees. Photo credit: Lis Mitchell, 2021. Right: Cover image of Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson. From the letter “I” in “BEING,” the color of Elsa’s cataract refracts in a rainbow-colored prismatic effect over a dark background. “Deafblind” is emphasized with light.$

Posted October 24, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Elsa Sjunneson

Congratulations on your first memoir, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, available October 26, 2021 from Simon and Schuster! How are you feeling right now in … Continue Reading Q&A with Elsa Sjunneson

Graphic with a black background with a photo of a Black female with dark brown complexion, close cropped black hair, wearing a wide smile, clear plastic glass frames and sweater with a geometric pattern in eggplant, sky blue, white and light peach colors.

Posted October 13, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Accessibility and the Lack Thereof in the Film Industry

Accessibility and the Lack Thereof in the Film Industry Carolyn Hinds Being a Black woman means there isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t worry that … Continue Reading Accessibility and the Lack Thereof in the Film Industry