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A fabulous excerpt/extended quote by Ingrid Tischer, Director of Development, DREDF, on telethons, ‘inspiration porn‘ and their impact on girls with disabilities (published in an article titled, “I’ll Trade You the Pink-Ribbon … Continue Reading People We Love: Ingrid Tischer, Berkeley, CA
Eeeeeeks. It’s almost Labor Day and for some people with muscular dystrophy, it’s a time of cringing and overall disdain due to the MDA telethon for ‘Jerry’s kids.’ This is … Continue Reading Disability History: New York Times opinion piece on MDA telethon by Evan Kemp Jr. (9/3/81)
Judith Heumann is an internationally known disability rights activist. She currently serves as the State Department’s Special Advisor for International Disability Rights. Check out her recent op-ed for The Hill … Continue Reading Civil Rights = Disability Rights = Human Rights
It’s Our Story is a national initiative to make disability history public and accessible. Scott Cooper recorded and collected over 1,300 video interviews from disability leaders across the country since … Continue Reading Disability History: John Holland, Denver, CO
The New Idealist recently published ‘The Autism Issue.’ Lydia Brown writes about the future of the autistic rights movement. As with disability rights in general, there’s a long road ahead. … Continue Reading People We Love: Lydia Brown, Washington, DC
The Disability Visibility Project is proud to have the World Institute on Disability as our 43rd media partner! From their website: The mission of the World Institute on Disability (WID) in … Continue Reading Media Partner #43: World Institute on Disability
Talk about history in action. Various community organizations such as Senior and Disability Action and the Gray Panthers blocked two tech shuttle busses in the Mission district of San Francisco … Continue Reading Disability History: Seniors and Disabled People Protesting Tech Buses, San Francisco, CA
Ingrid Tischer and Ken Stein are both active members of the San Francisco Bay Area disability community. They’re also married to one another! On July 24, 2014, Ingrid and Ken … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Project: Ingrid and Ken, Berkeley, CA
Lucia Rios is a Community Access Specialist at Disability Network Lakeshore. The following is an excerpt of an article she wrote for the blog AbleBodies on June 25, 2014. The … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Makings of an Advocate by Lucia Rios
We LOVE Twitter here at the Disability Visibility Project. We recently came across this re-tweet by Sara Hendren that we co-sign a million times! “Movements begin with the telling … Continue Reading People We Love: Sara Hendren, Cambridge, MA
Andrew Pulrang is the writer and creator of Disability Thinking, a blog that’s about: “Thinking about disability … in news, politics and policy, advocacy, ideas and philosophy, personal stories, and … Continue Reading Media Partner #37: Andrew Pulrang of Disability Thinking
Because disability history is about the past, present and future, check out the photo posted above of people taking action. This photo captures the very real barriers that people with … Continue Reading Disability History: Access for Montreal, July 25, 2014
It’s our 34th media partner, Autism Women’s Network! The mission of the Autism Women’s Network is to provide effective supports to Autistic women and girls of all ages through a … Continue Reading Media Partner #34: Autism Women’s Network
Nick Dupree is a blogger and artist who happens to love bunnies (we love bunnies too at the DVP). From his website: I’m Nick, a 32 year-old disability rights and … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Hey Everyone, I Almost Died … Again by Nick Dupree
Cathy Kudlick, Director of the Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University blogged about the unique contributions by the Bay Area disability community in the fight for civil … Continue Reading Disabled People’s Forgotten Revolution: The 504 Occupation
This is the last of our guest blog posts about the 24th anniversary of the ADA. Blane Beckwith has a blog called Crippled Politics: “A Place for Political Discussion | … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Mixed Feelings: 24th Anniversary of The Americans With Disabilities Act by Blane Beckwith