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Posted 2 months ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q & A with Pia Justesen on Disability and Human Rights

Below is an interview with Pia Justesen, author of a new book featuring oral histories of people with disabilities, From the Periphery: Real-Life Stories of Disability, published by Lawrence Hill … Continue Reading Q & A with Pia Justesen on Disability and Human Rights

Krys, a Latinx person sitting on the front steps of a building, in Chiapas, Mexico in June 2015, while investigating Central American migration and security politics.

Posted 2 months ago Guest Blog Posts

Academic Ableism: Fighting for Accommodations and Access in Higher Education

Academic Ableism: Fighting for Accommodations and Access in Higher Education Krys Méndez Ramírez Six years ago, when I first started applying to graduate school programs as someone with … Continue Reading Academic Ableism: Fighting for Accommodations and Access in Higher Education

Posted 3 months ago DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Haben Girma on her new memoir

I’ve known Haben Girma for years and got to record her oral history for the DVP in 2015. I was delighted to interview her again about her new memoir, Haben: … Continue Reading Q&A with Haben Girma on her new memoir

Image description: Asian American woman wearing a gray hoodie with her hands crossed across her chest. She is sitting in a wheelchair and had a BiPap mask over her nose with a tube. Below is a light blue horizontal bar with white text that reads: "#WeAreMedicaid." Next to the text on the right side is a graphic of a pink heart

Posted June 27, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

The Olmstead Decision & Me

On June 26, 2019, I was on a panel hosted by The Kelsey, “Disability, Inclusion, and Community Life: A Conversation in San Francisco,” along with moderator Danh Trang and co-panelists … Continue Reading The Olmstead Decision & Me

Cropped photo of Bess Williamson, a white woman with brown hair and glasses, standing in front of a window and a rainbow thread artwork by Gabriel Dawe.

Posted June 17, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Interview with Bess Williamson: Accessible America

Tell me a little about yourself! Bess Williamson: I am a professor of design history, meaning I study architecture, products, and other stuff in modern society. I work at the … Continue Reading Interview with Bess Williamson: Accessible America

White graphic with a photo on the left of 3 disabled Asian Americans, Mia Mingus, Alice Wong and Sandy Ho (from left to right). Mia is wearing glasses and large hoop earrings. Alice is wearing a brightly colored scarf and an army-camouflage-print jacket. She is wearing a mask over her nose with a tube for her Bi-Pap machine. Sandy has wavy short hair and is wearing a black sweater. Behind them is a concrete wall with a door. On the right, text that reads “ACCESS IS LOVE” with “O” as a red heart, “Twitter Chat, March 26, 2019, 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern, Co-hosts: @IntersectedCrip @MiaMingus @DisVisibility, Guest host: @houseofgg1 #AccessIsLove”

Posted March 13, 2019 DVP News and Events

3/26 #AccessIsLove Twitter Chat

Join Mia Mingus, Sandy Ho, and Alice Wong for a conversation about access from a disability justice perspective on March 26, 2019, 4 pm Pacific with guest host House of … Continue Reading 3/26 #AccessIsLove Twitter Chat

Posted January 27, 2019 Podcast

Ep 43: Disabled “Fakers”

Posted December 30, 2018 Podcast

Ep 41: Deaf in Prison

Posted February 11, 2018 Podcast

Ep 18: Accessibility and the ADA

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

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Posted October 17, 2016 Guest Blog Posts

#CripTheVote Interview: Thida Cornes for Mountain View City Council

On Election Day this November 8th, there will be local and state elections in addition to the one for President. Local elections are just as important as national ones. In … Continue Reading #CripTheVote Interview: Thida Cornes for Mountain View City Council

Yellow graphic with the following in black text: #CripTheVote Twitter Chat Poverty and Disability October 13, 2016 8 pm Eastern Co-hosts: @AndrewPulrang @GreggBeratan @DisVisibility

Posted October 9, 2016 Guest Blog Posts

10/13 #CripTheVote chat: #Poverty and #Disability

#CripTheVote Twitter Chat Poverty and Disability Thursday, October 13, 2016 8-9:15 pm Eastern Hosted by Andrew Pulrang, Gregg Beratan, and Alice Wong, #CripTheVote Twitter chats explored various policy issues important … Continue Reading 10/13 #CripTheVote chat: #Poverty and #Disability

Selfie of two young white women in a large call. Behind them you can see a stage with a lectern, multiple American flags hung up and patriotic bunting on multiple floors.

Posted October 2, 20167 Comments Uncategorized

Campaign Events, Accessibility & Disabled People: Interview with Sarah Blahovec and Laura Halvorson

Alice Wong and her co-partners Andrew Pulrang and Gregg Beratan have been encouraging the political participation of people with disabilities as part of their activism with #CripTheVote, a nonpartisan online campaign … Continue Reading Campaign Events, Accessibility & Disabled People: Interview with Sarah Blahovec and Laura Halvorson

White woman standing and leaning against a stone wall lined against city street. She has short cropped brown hair and is wearing a short-sleeved black shirt and blue denim jeans. Next to her is a manual chair with black cushion and back.

Posted August 21, 20161 Comment Guest Blog Posts

Guest Blog Post: Leg Envy/Arm Prejudice

Leg Envy/Arm Prejudice By Heidi Johnson-Wright All body parts are not created equal. This is often the opinion of non-gimps, especially when they take a break from their normal lives … Continue Reading Guest Blog Post: Leg Envy/Arm Prejudice

Posted July 26, 20163 Comments Guest Blog Posts

#GetWokeADA26: Disabled People of Color Speak Out, Part Two

This is the second of a 2-part report looking at the lives and stories of disabled people of color by Vilissa Thompson and Alice Wong for Ramp Your Voice! and the … Continue Reading #GetWokeADA26: Disabled People of Color Speak Out, Part Two