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IMAGE OF MIXED ABILITIES DANCE TEACHER INDIA HARVILLE. SHE IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN WITH HAIR IN LOCKS, WEARING ALL BLACK, SITTING ON THE FLOOR WITH HER HANDS CLASPED, SMILING AT THE CAMERA.

Ep 83: Disabled Dancers

Ornate gold frame with a blank white canvas on a wall

Posted 2 weeks ago DVP News and Events

An Open Letter to the Contemporary Jewish Museum

To Lori Starr, Executive Director of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, We are writing to express our dismay to learn of the blow you’ve dealt to Bay Area disability arts and … Continue Reading An Open Letter to the Contemporary Jewish Museum

Sara Hendren, a white middle aged woman with brown hair and brown eyes, sits in front of a weathered wood fence, wearing an olive linen jacket.

Posted 2 weeks ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Sara Hendren

Below is an interview with Sara Hendren, artist, design researcher, writer, and professor, who has a new book What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World (Riverhead … Continue Reading Q&A with Sara Hendren

Three Asian Americans taking a selfie at an outdoor sidewalk. In the back is Luigi Villanueva, on the left is Alice Wong, a wheelchair user with a mask over her nose attached to a ventilator, on the right is Rochelle Kwan. Everyone is smiling.

Posted 3 weeks ago Podcast

Ep 82: Americans with Disabilities Act

Graphic with a white background and at the top is a row of colorful paint in rainbow colors dripping down. Text in black at the bottom reads #ADA30InColor

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The burden and consequences of self-advocacy for disabled BIPOC

The burden and consequences of self-advocacy for disabled BIPOC Aparna R. Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Aparna_R-ADA30InColor-The_burden_and_consequences_of_self-advocacy_for_disabled_BIPOC.mp3 The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed the year I was born and it … Continue Reading The burden and consequences of self-advocacy for disabled BIPOC

Close up of a light complexion, Two Spirit femme with black glasses, green eyes, shoulder length brown hair, Native style beaded dangling earrings, with bright red lips and a red shirt. In the foreground is a paved path and grass.

Posted 4 weeks ago Guest Blog Posts

ADA 30: No Justice for Disabled Native People

ADA 30: No Justice for Disabled Native People Jen Deerinwater Content notes: genocide, sexual assault, eugenics, suicide, suicide attempts, intergenerational trauma Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Jen_Deerinwater-ADA_30_No_Justice_for_Disabled_Native_People_.mp3 Waking up has been increasingly … Continue Reading ADA 30: No Justice for Disabled Native People

A south asian person poses in a Jazzy Passport folding power chair. He has on brown lace up boots, a colorful floral skirt, and a white lace top. He has a conference badge. He is smiling.

Posted 4 weeks ago Guest Blog Posts

They can take away the Mosque, but they’ll never take my faith

They can take away the Mosque, but they’ll never take my faith Noor Pervez Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Noor_Pervez-They_can_take_away_the_Mosque_but_they_ll_never_take_my_faith.mp3 When I think about faith, I feel love, first, then pain. It … Continue Reading They can take away the Mosque, but they’ll never take my faith

An Indian woman wearing a black sweater with pink and orange stripes and blue jeans smiles in front of a green tree with purple flowers. Her hands are in her pockets.

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We Change, We Wait

We Change, We Wait Lia Seth Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Lia_Seth-We_Change_We_Wait.mp3 I wasn’t even 18 months old when the Americans with Disabilities Act passed. The daughter of able-bodied immigrant parents, I … Continue Reading We Change, We Wait

$Graphic with a border with various circles of refracted light in pastel yellow, green, blue, and pink. In the center, black text that reads: Disability Visibility Book Circle Kay Ulanday Barrett • Ellen Chang • torrin greathouse Porochista Khakpour • Robert Kingett Raymond Luczak • J. Albert Mann • Amber McDowell Lateef McLeod • John Poehler • H. M. PSYCHOSOCIAL Sejal Shah • Maxfield Sparrow$

Posted 2 months ago DVP News and Events

Disability Visibility Book Circle 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 difficult and inaccessible for … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Book Circle 2020

Stephanie Thomas, a Black woman with oval shaped eyes, round nose, smiling. Her chin is resting on her clasped hands. Her hair locs are pulled up in a high bun and wearing a sleeveless black top. The background is a grayish black backdrop. My condition’s name is Symbrachydactyly. I am a congenital amputee missing digits on my right hand and feet. Photo credit: Benjo Arwas @benjoarwas

Posted 2 months ago Podcast

Ep 80: Fashion

Text reads: Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century Online Book Launch. July 25th, 2020. 4-5:15 pm PT. Join us for this webinar featuring a discussion and readings by the editor Alice Wong and contributors to the book from the Bay Area. 10 lucky participants will receive a free copy! Register: https://tinyurl.com/DVBookLaunch. Webinar co-organized by the Disability visibility Project and the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability. The image is of the book cover has multicolored triangles with the book title over it. Edited by Alice Wong.

Posted 2 months ago DVP News and Events

7/25 Disability Visibility Online Book Event

On June 30, 2020 I have a book coming out, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century from Vintage Books. It’s an anthology I edited featuring work by … Continue Reading 7/25 Disability Visibility Online Book Event

Black and white photo of an outdoor protest with one sign that says RESIST in white letters against a black piece of cardboard

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26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets (June 2020 update)

26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets. (a list) June 2020 updates Contributors Ejeris Dixon, Piper Anderson, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Ro Garrido, Emi Kane, Bhavana Nancherla, … Continue Reading 26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets (June 2020 update)

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

Posted 3 months ago Podcast

Ep 78: Hate Crimes

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Message to The Future

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 3 months 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 May 12, 2020 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