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Graphic with a beige background and delicate pink and purple flowers on the upper left and lower right corners. At the bottom in large print, THANK YOU! 3 photos from left to right: Alice, an Asian American disabled woman with a tracheostomy at her neck. She is smiling with her head tilted toward some bird of paradise plants, Leah, a mixed-race Sri Lankan and white nonbinary femme in their late 40s with teal curly hair, sand color skin and big metal glasses, looks contemplatively and with a slight smile at the viewer. Their hair matches the teal wall behind them, and their dark hot pink lipstick matches the hot pink velvet couch heaped with cushions behind them. They wear a black t shirt with the sleeves cut off and a gold hoop earring that reads “Burn It Down,” one double spiral tattoo is visible on their right shoulder (taken September 2024), and Jane, a person with pale-tan skin with her body away from the camera but her face smiling towards it. She’s wearing a blue jean jacket that reads “Nobody Loves You” in the back, embroidered in white calligraphy. Her hair is nearly shoulder-length with dark red highlights at the end and she’s wearing large round black-gray glasses. The background is a park during the day-time. Photo credit: Joy Gyamfi.

Posted October 7, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

Disabled People Jury Rigging Internet Connections During a Genocide: A Thank You Note

Disabled People Jury Rigging Internet Connections During a Genocide: A Thank You Note Today marks one year since the amplified Israeli genocide of Gaza began on October 7, 2023. … Continue Reading Disabled People Jury Rigging Internet Connections During a Genocide: A Thank You Note

Graphic with a black background and in the center is a black and white hand-drawn text in varied-style typography, both serif, italicized, bubbled, in the style of graffiti and street art. “Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, Do It Now. If it’s a handful, throw it, if it’s a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw it GET IN THE WAY however you can The Elimination of the Palestinian people is Not Inevitable. We can Refuse with our every breath and action. We must. Rasha Abdulhadi.”

Posted July 31, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

When the Poem is a Spreadsheet: Joining Crips for eSims for Gaza in #ConnectingGaza

When the Poem is a Spreadsheet: Joining Crips for eSims for Gaza in #ConnectingGaza Jane Shi FYI: Plain language version of “Crips for eSims for Gaza: A Donation Guide” … Continue Reading When the Poem is a Spreadsheet: Joining Crips for eSims for Gaza in #ConnectingGaza

Illustration with a light blue background featuring pieces of watermelon cut into triangular shapes and watermelon seeds.In the center against a white square background text reads, Crips for eSims for Gaza.

Posted December 25, 2023 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Donate here: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza 中文 Simplified and Traditional Chinese version En Español 한국어 En français FYI: Plain language version of “Crips for eSims for Gaza: A Donation Guide” by Noemí … Continue Reading Crips for eSims for Gaza

Graphic with a yellow background. A medium-skinned person with black hair worn long around their shoulders and short baby bangs, smiling outdoors, with a blue sky in the background.

Posted December 2, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

Still On the Margins: Long COVID Patients of Color

Still On the Margins: Long COVID Patients of Color Angela Meriquez Vázquez, MSW Before getting COVID-19 here in Los Angeles in March 2020, I was a runner for nearly … Continue Reading Still On the Margins: Long COVID Patients of Color

Graphic with a black background with a photo of a 40ish mixed race Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician nonbinary femme with curly brown silver and purple hair, lying on a couch looking at the viewer horizontally. They have rose gold aviator frames, thick eyebrows, red lipstick and sand colored skin, and are looking at the viewer with a kind of tired but hopefully crip wonder. They wear a blue denim vest with a pin that says Neurodivergent Universe above a pink and blue image of a ringed planet, and a black tank top with yellow lettering that read Talk To Plants, Not Cops is barely visible. They have a tattoo of the words "We begin by listening" in magenta cursive script on their left arm.

Posted May 21, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

where do we go from here? a roundtable from some disability justice organizers in this the only moment in time

where do we go from here? a roundtable from some disability justice organizers in this the only moment in time Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Something I keep thinking this … Continue Reading where do we go from here? a roundtable from some disability justice organizers in this the only moment in time

Graphic with a black background featuring 3 cropped photos from left to right: Catherine, a white woman, smiles widely like the joyous elder crip lesbian she is. She is seated in her power chair wearing a red shawl with a blur of lush greenery behind her. A selfie of Aislinn in front of the ocean on a winter day. She is a white person wearing a toque, scarf, and big, dark, somewhat bug-like sunglasses. A photo of Heidi, a white woman wearing black-rimmed glasses and smiling brightly. She is surrounded by books and art.

Posted March 31, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Perhaps They Won’t Have Died in Vain: The GRIM Project

Perhaps They Won’t Have Died in Vain: The GRIM Project Aislinn Thomas Content notes: death, euthanasia, filicide, medical ableism Since 2016, people in so-called Canada who are … Continue Reading Perhaps They Won’t Have Died in Vain: The GRIM Project

Posted February 6, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions

February 17, 2022 update: press release by Disabled Student Union and UCLA Student Body President Breeze Velasquez. We, the Disabled Student Union, the Mother Organizations Coalition, and Undergraduate … Continue Reading Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions

Graphic with a light purple background with a photo of a middle aged mixed race Sri Lankan, Irish and Romani femme, diagonially, in front of a wild river with lots of rocks. Leah has violet, brown and silver curly hair, peachy tan sand colored skin and red lipstick (Stila Stay All Day lipstick in Beso, aka "the lipstick AOC wears.") Their clothes are mostly not visible except for a blue denim vest. You can see their sleeve of tattoos, including cosmos flowers, a motherwort plant and letters in Tamil. They are smiling with bashful pride and satisfaction."

Posted October 3, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different Than Abled Mutual Aid

“We were maybe not going to save the world, but we were going to save each other.¹”: How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different Than Abled Mutual Aid Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha … Continue Reading How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different Than Abled Mutual Aid

Posted June 8, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Disability, Death & the Fight for Justice

Disability, Death & the Fight for Justice Disability Justice in Canada amidst a time of pandemic Megan Linton Content notes: genocide, systemic ableism, medical aid in dying, eugenics, institutionalization, … Continue Reading Disability, Death & the Fight for Justice

Graphic with a red background with a photo of Alena Morales, a Mexican Filipina woman, sitting in her wheelchair among San Diego palm trees. Her long brown hair is styled down around her shoulders, and she dons red lipstick with winged eyeliner. She is wearing a white button up shirt with black polka dots, and her central line hangs out from the neckline of her shirt.

Posted March 7, 2021 Podcast

Ep 98: Disabled Students

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Ep_98_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Today I’m in conversation with Alena Morales, who will graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in … Continue Reading Ep 98: Disabled Students

Graphic with a pink background and a A standing picture of Tory Cross, a white woman with red hair and black glasses, smiling and wearing green shorts a blue shirt that says “Hey Ya’ll Means All” with hey y’all means in white font and All in stripes of blue, pink and white. There is a sidewalk and greenery behind her.

Posted February 21, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Tory Cross

Social media can be trash but it’s not *all* trash. I learn so much from people I follow on Twitter such as Tory Cross. Here is an interview with Tory … Continue Reading Q&A with Tory Cross

Rebecca Lamorte, candidate for New York City Council, is smiling and standing on Roosevelt Island in New York City in front of the Queensboro Bridge. Rebecca is a white woman with long, curly brown hair and is wearing a gray dress.

Posted January 31, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Rebecca Lamorte

A few months ago I read a great piece by Rebecca Lamorte in Teen Vogue about how she became involved in politics. As a co-partner in #CripTheVote, an online campaign … Continue Reading Q&A with Rebecca Lamorte

Left: Caleb, a fat brown disabled femme, places their hands on their hips and looks at the camera defiantly. They are wearing blue plants, a blue bomber jacket with pink florals, and a black t-shirt that reads GORDA in a cursive script. Right: Max Airborne, a fat white person wearing blue jeans, an aqua t-shirt, a red knit beanie and round glasses, sits on a scooter in front of San Francisco ICE headquarters, speaking through a bullhorn. Resting on the front of their scooter is a large cardboard sign hand-painted with the words "No Body Is Disposable." On their left someone is interpreting in ASL, and on their right someone is recording audio using a handheld device.

Posted September 7, 2020 Podcast

Ep 85: Fat Liberation

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/EP85_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Today’s episode is all about fat liberation with Max Airborne and Caleb Luna. Max is … Continue Reading Ep 85: Fat Liberation

Posted August 26, 2020 Guest Blog Posts

A Preface to Advocacy

Below is an excerpt from A Preface to Advocacy: What You Should Know as an Advocate, a guide by Erin Gilmer. You can read the entire document here as a … Continue Reading A Preface to Advocacy

Leah looks at the camera in a garden in South Seattle in August. She has long curly brown, silver and green hair, dark magenta lipstick and light brown skin, and is grinning in front of a garden wall covered in blooming jasmine. Photo credit: Jesse Manuel Graves

Posted August 24, 2020 Guest Blog Posts

Cripping The Resistance: No Revolution Without Us

Cripping The Resistance: No Revolution Without Us Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Dedicated to my beloved friend and long time comrade in disability justice, Stacey Park Milbern, who cripped the … Continue Reading Cripping The Resistance: No Revolution Without Us

[Left] Dolores is a fat brown femme with a round face. She smiles without showering teeth. Their black hair is pulled back. [Right] Stacey is a mixed race Korean and white queer person wearing a blue-and white striped tank top and her trach can be seen.

Posted May 27, 2020 DVP Interviews

DVP Interview: Stacey Park Milbern and Dolores Tejada

Dolores Tejada interviewed Stacey Park Milbern for the Disability Visibility Project in San Francisco on September 26, 2015. Audio Description In this clip, Stacey Park Milbern and Dolores Tejada … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Stacey Park Milbern and Dolores Tejada