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For the first time, an exhibit on the landmark 504 sit in that took place in 1997, “Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights,” in will be shown … Continue Reading Q&A with Cathy Kudlick and Fran Osborne, Part One
Alice Wong interviewed Olivia Davis at StoryCorps San Francisco on May 18, 2015. Below are edited excerpts from their conversation for the Disability Visibility Project. History of the Are Cripples … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Olivia Davis and Alice Wong
On April 11, 2015, Alice Wong interviewed Yomi Wrong for the Disability Visibility Project at StoryCorps San Francisco. Below are short excerpts from their conversation. On Yomi’s birth, racism, and … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Yomi Wrong and Alice Wong
Many thanks to Susan Miller for writing a guest blog post about growing up with polio as a girl in the 1940s. How I Found Out I Was Bad Susan … Continue Reading Guest Blog Post: How I Found Out I Was Bad
Alice Wong, Project Coordinator and Founder of the Disability Visibility Project, wrote an introduction to an upcoming book, The Guide to Assisting Students With Disabilities: Equal Access in Health Science and Professional … Continue Reading Guest Blog Post: Disability as Diversity in the Health Sciences
Below are some excerpts of an interview with Meriah Nichols and Alice Wong for the Disability Visibility Project. Their interview was recorded at StoryCorps San Francisco on November 1, 2014. These … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Meriah Nichols and Alice Wong
Bay Area Day of Mourning Mourn for the Dead. Fight like Hell for the Living! On Sunday, March 1, 2015, the Bay Area disability community gathered at the Ed Roberts … Continue Reading Bay Area Day of Mourning: Program Information and List of Names
On Sunday, March 1, 2015, the Bay Area disability community gathered at the Ed Roberts Campus to remember and mourn the deaths of disabled people at the hands of their … Continue Reading Bay Area Disability Day of Mourning: Alice Wong
On Sunday, March 1, 2015, the Bay Area disability community gathered at the Ed Roberts Campus to remember and mourn the deaths of disabled people at the hands of their … Continue Reading Bay Area Day of Mourning: La Mesha Irizarry
On Sunday, March 1, 2015, the Bay Area disability community gathered at the Ed Roberts Campus to remember and mourn the deaths of disabled people at the hands of their … Continue Reading Bay Area Day of Mourning: Leroy Moore
On Sunday March 1, 2015, the Bay Area disability community gathered at the Ed Roberts Campus to remember and mourn the deaths of disabled people at the hands of their … Continue Reading Bay Area Day of Mourning: Corbett Joan OToole
Married couple and disability rights advocates Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin recorded their story at StoryCorps San Francisco on January 3, 2015. This is the last of two blog posts. … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin, Part Two
Married couple and disability rights advocates Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin recorded their story at StoryCorps San Francisco on January 3, 2015. This is the first of two blog posts. … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin
The Disability Visibility Project is thrilled to have one of our stories recorded for StoryCorps featured on NPR’s Morning Edition on January 16, 2015. Thank you to the good folks … Continue Reading DVP on NPR!
The Disability Visibility Project posted many articles in the past about inspiration porn and misconceptions about people with disabilities. One thing is for sure—disability is multidimensional and nuanced. Extreme caricatures about … Continue Reading By s.e. smith: “Disabled Children Aren’t Burdens — or Angels”
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