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Accessibility and the Lack Thereof in the Film Industry Carolyn Hinds Being a Black woman means there isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t worry that … Continue Reading Accessibility and the Lack Thereof in the Film Industry
Major Keys Britney Wilson In my sophomore year of high school I was nominated to attend the National Young Leaders Conference (NYLC) in Washington, D.C. The four-day conference … Continue Reading Major Keys
![[left] Photo of Kemi Yemi-Ese, a young Nigerian American Black woman with long black braids. Kemi is painting at her easel while sitting in her manual wheelchair. The canvas is of a wooden fence and a field of bright blue-purple flowers. [right] Photo of Kemi Yemi-Ese, a young Nigerian American Black woman with long black braids. She is wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and her hands are clasped in front of her. Behind her are two canvases featuring her paintings, the one on the left is light blue painting with abstract shapes and the one on the right is a painting of an elder Black man](https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/KEMI-Twitter.png?resize=700%2C476&ssl=1)
After the media coverage of a major natural disaster ends, people are left to recover and pick up the pieces. For some disabled people impacted by the power outages and … Continue Reading Q&A with Kemi Yemi-Ese
The King and Lies Tinu Abayomi-Paul The day you realize as a Black person, that your people were enslaved, and are still being oppressed, in order to provide the … Continue Reading The King and Lies
How the ADA Gave Birth to a Black Sexpert Robin Wilson-Beattie Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Robin_Wilson-Beattie-How_the_ADA_Gave_Birth_to_a_Black_Sexpert.mp3 I grew up in a world after the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and … Continue Reading How the ADA Gave Birth to a Black Sexpert
Missing Step Reyma McCoy McDeid Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Reyma_McCoy_McDeid-Missing_Step.mp3 Author’s note: although several organizations- and my roles within them- are mentioned here, views and opinions expressed in this essay are … Continue Reading Missing Step
A Paradoxical History of Black Disease Cyrée Jarelle Johnson Content notes: slavery, white supremacy, racism, genocide, violence, death Just two months after the Civil War ended, freedmen … Continue Reading A Paradoxical History of Black Disease
#ADA30InColor: Call for Stories Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2020 The Disability Visibility Project will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a series … Continue Reading #ADA30InColor: Call for Stories
https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Final_Ep_65.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Today’s episode is about Black Mental Health with Imade Nibokun. Imade is a mental health … Continue Reading Ep 65: Black Mental Health
![Two photos [left] A young Black boy, Leroy Moore, with short black hair smiling at the camera. He is wearing a red and white striped shirt. [Right] An illustrated headshot of Ashanti Fortson, an Afro-Latinx person with light brown skin and black curly hair. They're wearing light blue planet-shaped earrings, a periwinkle knit turtleneck, and large light blue glasses. They're smiling at the camera, and some sparkles float next to them.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Comics.png?resize=700%2C476&ssl=1)
https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/59_FINAL_Ep59.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Today’s episode is about comics with Ashanti Fortson and Leroy Moore. Ashanti is an illustrator … Continue Reading Ep 59: Comics
Korey Wise Represents So Much More in When They See Us Vilissa K. Thompson, LMSW Content notes: trauma, systemic racism, mass incarceration When They See Us has … Continue Reading Korey Wise Represents So Much More in “When They See Us”
The Life and Death Of Seven Bridges By Imani Barbarin CW: Self Harm, Suicide, Bullying, Abuse For a while, I couldn’t think of what to say about the suicide … Continue Reading The Life and Death Of Seven Bridges
https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/24_Final_Ep24.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSToday’s episode is about activism, disability justice and community organizing. My guest is Sarah Jama, an … Continue Reading Ep 24: Disability Justice and Community Organizing
Vilissa K. Thompson, Imani Barbarin and Neal Carter are co-hosting a Twitter chat on Black disability history. The Disability Visibility Project® will be playing a supporting role in this chat. … Continue Reading 2/28 Black Disability History Twitter Chat
https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Ep11_Final_96kbps.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSToday’s episode is about crip bodies and crip aging. Alice speaks with Patty Berne and Leroy … Continue Reading Ep 11: Crip Bodies and Crip Aging
Alice Wong interviewed Yomi Wrong for the Disability Visibility Project™ at StoryCorps San Francisco on April 11, 2015. In this clip, Yomi talks about the story of her birth and … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Yomi Wrong and Alice Wong