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#DisabilityTooWhite Being Black Looking Good While Chronically Ill By Rachel Lovejoy Quit my job in Chicago, my hometown and moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was a single, African American woman … Continue Reading Guest Blog Post: Being Black Looking Good While Chronically Ill
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
On November 5, 2015, Alice Wong interviewed her friend Kenzi Robi at StoryCorps San Francisco for the Disability Visibility Project. Below are some condensed and edited excerpts from their conversation. On … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Kenzi Robi and Alice Wong
Cheryl Green, a media partner of the Disability Visibility Project, recently discovered a documentary first broadcast on PBS in 1997, “My Country.” This is a blog post about that documentary … Continue Reading “My Country” ADA Documentary by Cheryl Green
Many people on twitter have been tweeting lately about #BlackLivesMatter in light of recent events this year. Persephone Jones, @galvezmiro, has been tweeting the names and photos of black and disabled people killed … Continue Reading #DisabledBlackLivesMatterToo by Persephone Jones
Sins Invalid is a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. On … Continue Reading Sins Invalid Statement on Police Violence
Our project’s 28th media partner is Kamilah Martin-Proctor, founder and Executive Director of the Martin Multiple Sclerosis Alliance Foundation (MMSAF). She was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when she was sixteen. … Continue Reading Media Partner #28: Kamilah Martin-Proctor