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Graphic with a white background with 'DIS' in large letters in red, orange, and yellow respectively. Underneath 'DIS' are the words: Disability Intersectionality Summit.

Posted 2 weeks ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Disability & Intersectionality Summit: Holly Pearson and Lydia X. Z. Brown

By Sandy Ho The upcoming Disability & Intersectionality Summit (DIS) happening Saturday October 13th in Cambridge, MA began as an idea in response to the question “but how can we … Continue Reading Disability & Intersectionality Summit: Holly Pearson and Lydia X. Z. Brown

Posted 3 weeks ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Disability & Intersectionality Summit: Interview with Sharon daVanport

By Sandy Ho The purpose of the upcoming Disability & Intersectionality Summit (DIS) is to flip the flow of power and conversation towards disability justice to center marginalized disabled people, … Continue Reading Disability & Intersectionality Summit: Interview with Sharon daVanport

Posted 3 weeks ago Podcast

Ep 24: Disability Justice and Community Organizing

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/p/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/24_Final_Ep24.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSSToday’s episode is about activism, disability justice and community organizing. My guest … Continue Reading Ep 24: Disability Justice and Community Organizing

Yellow graphic with black text: "Share your SF Bay Area Women’s March disability stories on January 20, 2018!" Below are three illustrations from left to right: a smartphone, a caption bubble with horizontal lines, the Twitter bird icon.

Posted January 16, 2018 DVP News and Events

Call for SF Bay Area Women’s March Disability Stories

Share your SF Bay Area Women’s March stories on January 20th! Are you a disabled person attending the Women’s March in Oakland or SF? Are you a disabled person who … Continue Reading Call for SF Bay Area Women’s March Disability Stories

Posted December 3, 20172 Comments Podcast

Ep 12: Advocacy, Intersectionality & Mental Health

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/p/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/12_Ep_12_Advocacy_Intersectionality_Mental_Health.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSS Today’s episode is on advocacy, intersectionality & mental health with Victoria … Continue Reading Ep 12: Advocacy, Intersectionality & Mental Health

Posted November 13, 20171 Comment Podcast

EP 9: Medicaid and Community Living

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/p/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Final_Ep9_96.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSSToday’s episode is on Medicaid and Community Living. Alice is joined by … Continue Reading EP 9: Medicaid and Community Living

Posted October 29, 2017 Podcast

Ep 7: Violence and Disabled People

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/p/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/FINAL_Ep7_1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSS Today’s episode is on violence and disabled people. Activists Mahdia Lynn … Continue Reading Ep 7: Violence and Disabled People

Image description: graphic with a white background with black text: DVP Twitter Chat, Future of Disability Studies, September 24, 2017, 7 pm ET, #DisStudiesDVP Guest hosts: @anjalifp @DrAngelLove @lldiedrich @HaileeYoshizaki @AdamPNewman89

Posted September 17, 2017 DVP News and Events

9/24 DVP Twitter Chat: Future of Disability Studies

DVP Twitter Chat Future of Disability Studies September 24, 2017 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern Guest hosts: Lisa Diedrich, Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Angel Miles, Adam P. Newman, Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons … Continue Reading 9/24 DVP Twitter Chat: Future of Disability Studies

Posted September 13, 2017 Podcast

Ep 1: Activism and the Disability Community

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/p/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/ModifiedEp1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSSThe guests for this episode are Andrew Pulrang and Gregg Beratan, co-partners … Continue Reading Ep 1: Activism and the Disability Community

Graphic with a black background showing 3 cropped images horizontally. On the left is Laura Halvorson in her bipap breathing mask and power wheelchair wearing a turquoise ADAPT Disability Integration Act shirt. Next to her is another ADAPTer and police officers getting ready to exit the Dirksen Senate Building after getting arrested on June 22, 2017 outside Mitch McConnell’s office. She is holding a banner that says Medicaid = Life + Liberty 4 Disabled Americans. In the middle is Marilee Adamski-Smith, a woman with short blond hair, is in a wheelchair with a bar across her torso. She is wearing a black t-shirt that says "ADA 25 Americans with Disabilities Act 1990-2015." She does not have any arms or legs and has a joystick resting on her right shoulder for her wheelchair. On the right is a photo of Dominick Evans, a transgender man with short dark hair and glasses. He has stubble around his chin and neck. He is in a wheelchair with a black headrest behind him. He is wearing an argyle-print sweater in different shades of blue.

Posted September 11, 2017 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

#CripTheVote Twitter Chat Disability Identity and Activism Monday, February 6, 2017 7 pm Eastern/ 4 pm Pacific More people than ever are becoming engaged in activism for the first time. … Continue Reading 2/6 #CripTheVote Chat: #Disability Identity and #Activism

Graphic created and uploaded with the recording to the StoryCorps app on January 23, 2017 featuring Gregg Beratan, Andrew Pulrang and Alice Wong. A bright yellow background with three images in a row in the center. On the left: a photo of a young white man with short dark brown hair and beard. He is wearing a black shirt and smiling at the camera. In the middle: graphic of a white man with brown hair and eyeglasses. He has a dark red sweater on and a tracheostomy in the center of his neck marked by a white oval with a hole. The background is dark purple-blue with splotches of light purple throughout. On the right: an Asian American woman in a wheelchair wearing a black jacket and black scarf. She is wearing a mask around her nose with along gray tube. Behind her is a brick wall with colorful street art.

Posted January 23, 20171 Comment DVP Interviews

DVP Interview: Gregg Beratan, Andrew Pulrang & Alice Wong

The three co-partners of #CripTheVote, Gregg Beratan, Andrew Pulrang, and Alice Wong, recorded their oral history for the Disability Visibility Project™ on August 23, 2016 and uploaded it to the StoryCorps … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Gregg Beratan, Andrew Pulrang & Alice Wong

Image description: A photo featuring Eli Gelardin and Christina Mills taken on January 3, 2015. A close-up portrait of a person on the left who appears to be a white man with short brown hair and a beard. He is smiling and wearing a black vest and long-sleeved shirt. To his right is a person who appears to be a white woman with long wavy brown hair that has a barrette on the left side of her hair. She is smiling at the camera and bundled with a white knit scarf around her neck and a rose-colored sweater.

Posted January 7, 2017 DVP Interviews

DVP Interview: Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin

Christina Mills and her husband Eli Gelardin recorded their oral history for the Disability Visibility Project™ at StoryCorps in San Francisco on January 3, 2015. They talked about the challenges … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin

Aqua blue graphic with black text centered that reads: #FilmDis Twitter Chat “Split” & Mental Health Saturday, January 14, 2017 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern Co-Hosts: Dominick Evans @dominickevans and Alice Wong @DisVisibility

Posted January 5, 20174 Comments DVP News and Events

1/14: #FilmDis & DVP Twitter chat on “Split” & Mental Health

#FilmDis Twitter Chat “Split” & Mental Health Saturday, January 14, 2017 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern Co-Hosts: Dominick Evans @dominickevans and Alice Wong @DisVisibility The Disability Visibility Project™ is proud … Continue Reading 1/14: #FilmDis & DVP Twitter chat on “Split” & Mental Health

A photo featuring Anthony Tusler and Fran Osborne taken on June 16, 2016: Two people sitting next to each other. The woman on the left is Fran Osborne who appears to be white. She has long dark hair pulled back, with eye glasses on top of her head. She is wearing a black and white striped shirt with an orange scarf tied around her neck. The man on the right is Anthony Tusker who appears to be white. He is wearing a light blue button-down shirt with a black t-shirt inside. He is smiling, and his hair is white and combed back.

Posted December 25, 2016 DVP Interviews

DVP Interview: Anthony Tusler and Fran Osborne

Fran Osborne interviewed Anthony Tusler for the Disability Visibility Project™ at StoryCorps San Francisco on June 16, 2016. In this clip, with text transcript below, Anthony and Fran talk about … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Anthony Tusler and Fran Osborne