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Picture of Sachin Pavithran, a South Asian man in a suit holding white cane outside the Capitol in Salt Lake City.

Ep 78: Hate Crimes

Posted 1 week ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Last week Rose Eveleth’s Flash Forward podcast celebrated its fifth year with an episode featuring messages to 50 years in the future from past guests including myself. I can only … Continue Reading Message to The Future

Image is a photo of Hannah Gadsby in a dark suit, holding some of her handmade pet rocks.

Posted 1 week ago Guest Blog Posts

Interview with Hannah Gadsby on autism, accommodations and performing live

Hannah Gadsby on autism, accommodations and performing live Sharon daVanport If you’re one of the millions of people who watched comedian Hannah Gadsby fiercely take on homophobia, misogyny, sexism, … Continue Reading Interview with Hannah Gadsby on autism, accommodations and performing live

Photo of Héctor M. Ramírez, a Latino Chiricahua Apache man wearing a maroon t-shirt that says ASL with 2 illustrations of hands spelling ‘a’ and ‘f’ as in af meaning “as fuck”. His right hand is showing the sign, "I love you" in American Sign Language.

Posted 3 weeks ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Food Insecurity & COVID-19: Interview with Héctor M. Ramírez

Interview with Héctor M. Ramírez on hunger and food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic This is a condensed interview with Héctor M. Ramírez, a disability rights advocate who volunteers at … Continue Reading Food Insecurity & COVID-19: Interview with Héctor M. Ramírez

[left] Alex, an above the knee amputee, poses joyously in a monochromatic light blue outfit and a dark blue bandana around his neck. Balancing on his crutches, he beams looking off into the distance with his dark brown, wavy hair framing his face. [right] Photograph of Karen Nakamura (an asian american woman with short hair) holding her service dog Momo, a grey and white beagle. The photograph is studio quality.

Posted 1 month ago Podcast

Ep 76: Film Festivals

[left] Photo of life-partners and Co-Executive Directors of The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, Shaylin Sluzalis and Germán Parodi. On the left is Shaylin Sluzalis, a white woman with long brown curly hair, in a red long sleeve ADAPT shirt smiles as she sits on the side of Germán Parodi's wheelchair who is on the right of Shaylin. Germán Parodi, a Puerto Rican man is sitting in his manual wheelchair with long dark brown curly hair, in a long navy blue ADAPT shirt with a slight grin and his arm around Shaylin. Their background is a light blue painting with multi-colored lines from wheelchair wheels with paint, a project done by disabled Philadelphian's with Disability Pride Philadelphia. Photo credit: Albert Yee [right] Biracial woman with curly black hair is smiling for the camera. She has black-rimmed glasses and is wearing a blue, flowered romper. She is seated in a coffee shop, backs of patrons visible behind her.

Posted 2 months ago Podcast

Ep 75: Coronavirus and Disaster Planning

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/p/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/75_Ep_75_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS Today’s episode is about natural disasters and emergency … Continue Reading Ep 75: Coronavirus and Disaster Planning

$Graphic with a border with various circles of refracted light in pastel yellow, green, blue, and pink. In the center black text: Disability Visibility Book Circle, Funds for Video Conference Book Events by Disabled Writers. Deadline: May 1, 2020, DisabilityVisibilityProject.com. On the lower right corner is a QR code$

Posted 2 months ago DVP News and Events

Disability Visibility Book Circle: Call for Submissions

Deadline: May 1, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has changed everyone’s lives. It is a privilege to have a book published and yet the pressure to promote can be incredibly … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Book Circle: Call for Submissions

Woman with light white skin and long, dark brown hair is in the center of the image. She is looking toward the right, slightly smiling. She is wearing a black long sleeve shirt and behind her are trees and water.

Posted 2 months ago Guest Blog Posts

Disabled Communities in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Virtual Home Building & Rebuilding: Disabled Communities in the COVID-19 Pandemic Amy Gaeta I am writing this reflection from government-advised self-isolation, sitting in my one-bedroom apartment in Madison, … Continue Reading Disabled Communities in the COVID-19 Pandemic

[left] Ian is a white man in his 30s sitting in a power wheelchair with oene leg crossed under the other. He's spreading his hands and grinning, one eyebrow slightly raised, like he's gesturing mid-explanation. Nearby him is a laptop and a table with microphones. [right] Sean Betouliere – a white man in his mid-30s with close-cut hair, thick-framed glasses, a brown suit, and an orange tie—smiles for the camera

Posted 3 months ago Podcast

Ep 73: Housing

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 February 24, 2020 Podcast

Ep 71: Games

Posted February 12, 2020 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 February 10, 2020 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

[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 January 26, 2020 Podcast

Ep 69: Theatre

Posted January 12, 2020 Podcast

Ep 68: Accessibility

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

[Left] White woman wearing high-collared shirt looks at camera. No smile. [Right] A white woman with long, straight blondish-reddish hair. She smiles at the camera, eyes slightly squinted in the sunlight, with one arm wrapped around a narrow pillar on a brick building. Her shirt is gray with a flower pattern. There are benches on the porch behind her.

Posted December 18, 2019 Podcast

Ep 66: Cyborgs