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Graphic with a lavender background showing a photo of Emet’s funeral program. On the cover is a picture of Emet wearing a white and gray polka dotted collared button up shirt, with a gray bow tie. He has curly turquoise hair. He has a mustache and a nose piercing and is sitting in a power chair, smiling. Below it says Rabbi Emet Faye Tauber, August 30, 1994-March 25, 2019. In the background there are zebra stripes, rainbow pride flags, and trans pride flags.

Posted August 14, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle

Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle A different world is possible Noah Strauss There was always a journalist, Joshua Bright, in the room with us in those dying days, in … Continue Reading Emet Tauber: Disabled Oracle

A double exposure photograph, wherein two images are faded onto one another in a single image, of Jane sitting at her desk on a black office chair. Jane is a light skin East Asian person, with her eyes closed, wearing brown and black glasses and short black hair that slightly flares at the end with rounded bangs like a bowl. In one exposure Jane’s face is larger and closer to the camera; there are lights directly behind her. In the other, she is sitting on a black office chair and holding a sliced open half of a pomegranate. Behind her is a round, moon-like light. The desk behind her is a medium orange-brown and contains a head shelf, with books ordered in red, black, white, and the rest of the rainbow ordered on the top of the table. There’s a small brown monkey plushie near the left end of the desk. There’s a black and white ink illustration above the orange to blue books on top of the desk where there’s an open space.

Posted May 21, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

What Will Never Be Again

What Will Never Be Again Jane Shi Content notes: suicide, genocide, deaths in long-term care, serophobia, medical abuse, labour exploitation, overdose deaths Dionne Brand’s piercing article “On … Continue Reading What Will Never Be Again

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 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 light pink background. In the center, a photo of Ingrid Tischer of her first day home from the hospital. Ingrid is a middle-aged white woman wearing a Bi-Pap mask in a hospital bed under a colorful quilt.

Posted March 6, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Ingrid Tischer

Below is a conversation I had with my friend Ingrid Tischer on February 20, 2021. Ingrid is one of the first close friends I made when I moved to San … Continue Reading Q&A with Ingrid Tischer

Elsa, a caucasian woman with short asymmetrical red hair, looks over her blue glasses with a half smile on her face. Her right eye is an aqua cataract, her right is grey and has a pupil. She wears pink lipstick that matches her pink and grey hearing aids. She wears a teal geometric blouse and leather jacket, and is pictured with her guide dog. Her guide dog has brown eyes and looks bored.

Posted April 27, 2020 Guest Blog Posts

My Life Has Quality

My Life Has Quality Elsa R. Sjunneson Content notes: assisted suicide, suicide, ableism, eugenics, murder, filicide The brownstone has high ceilings and blonde hardwood floors, fairy lights twinkle from … Continue Reading My Life Has Quality

Posted July 7, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Rest in Power: Carrie Ann Lucas, Bill Peace, and Ing Wong-Ward

2019 has been a rough year with the recent deaths of three amazing disabled people: Carrie Ann Lucas, Bill Peace, and Ing Wong-Ward. All three were badass activists, generous, kind, … Continue Reading Rest in Power: Carrie Ann Lucas, Bill Peace, and Ing Wong-Ward

Posted March 17, 2019 Guest Blog Posts

Indigenous Lives and Disability Justice

Indigenous Lives and Disability Justice Jen Deerinwater Content notes: genocide, colonization, suicide, death, medical neglect, discrimination, racism, settler colonialism, rape, sexual assault, murder, eugenics, forced sterilization, trauma, intergenerational trauma, historical … Continue Reading Indigenous Lives and Disability Justice

A mixed race Korean and white queer person smiles head on at the camera. She has big glasses and is wearing a crewneck. Her trach and wheelchair can be seen.

Posted March 10, 2019 Guest Blog Posts

On the Ancestral Plane: Crip Hand Me Downs and the Legacy of Our Movements

On the Ancestral Plane: Crip Hand Me Downs and the Legacy of Our Movements Stacey Milbern My favorite boots are socks. Crip socks. Made out of brown leather to … Continue Reading On the Ancestral Plane: Crip Hand Me Downs and the Legacy of Our Movements

Posted May 3, 20171 Comment DVP Blog Posts and Essays

“Dying While Black and Brown”: Interview with Joanna Haigood and Antoine Hunter

Last year I met Antoine Hunter for an event I co-organized featuring Deaf and disabled artists. Recently, he introduced me to an amazing performance piece, “Dying While Black and Brown,” created … Continue Reading “Dying While Black and Brown”: Interview with Joanna Haigood and Antoine Hunter

Book cover of "The Bus," a novella by Adam Pottle. At the top are the words: Winner of the 2016 Ken Klonsky awards. At the bottom is a photo showing a black asphalt road with two yellow stripes in the center with words in white text that read: The Bus Adam Pottle. Above the photo are two sets of abstract paintings with various geometric shapes depicting a bus and a bus passengers. The abstract painting on the left is in color while the one on the right is in black and white.

Posted February 26, 2017 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Interview with Adam Pottle on his novella “The Bus”

The following is an interview with Canadian writer Adam Pottle on his recent work of fiction, “The Bus.” Please note that there will be spoilers about the plot and characters … Continue Reading Interview with Adam Pottle on his novella “The Bus”

Photo of stage performance of "Assisted Suicide, the Musical" The main character, a thin, petite white woman is Liz is seated in a hoyer lift on centre stage. There is gold curtain behind her with a sign 'suicide' in lights. Two women wearing white tops and skirts with red belts are dancing, with two men in red jackets with white trousers are holding up flags.

Posted October 9, 20162 Comments Guest Blog Posts

Review of “Assisted Suicide: The Musical”

Assisted Suicide: The Musical Review by Eleanor Lisney *Spoiler warning—details about the songs and scenes in the musical are discussed. **Above photo credit: Rob Anderson It is admittedly an odd title. … Continue Reading Review of “Assisted Suicide: The Musical”

Image of a young white woman with blonde hair combed to the right side of her face, the left side of her hair is shaved off. Behind her are photos and poster typical of any college dorm room or bedroom. Her eyes are squinting and her lips are pursed as her right hand is making a "rock on" pose with her middle and ring finger downward while the others are standing up. On the left hand she is holding a white index card that reads, #CripTheVote.

Posted September 19, 20165 Comments Guest Blog Posts

Ableism in Journalism: How the Coverage of Jerika Bolen’s Story Negatively Affects All Readers

Ableism in Journalism: How the Coverage of Jerika Bolen’s Story Negatively Affects All Readers Guest Blog post by Hannah Soyer This fall I’ll be a senior with at the University … Continue Reading Ableism in Journalism: How the Coverage of Jerika Bolen’s Story Negatively Affects All Readers

A white man sitting on a bench with a cane. He is wearing dark sunglasses and has a black cap on his head. Behind him is an urban landscape of a city in Japan

Posted August 1, 20167 Comments Guest Blog Posts

8/4: Online Vigil for the Murdered Disabled People of Sagamihara

August 2016 post-script: A Storify of the online vigil can found here: https://storify.com/SFdirewolf/sagamiharadvp-mourning-the-disabled-people-murdere#publicize Online Vigil and Chat Disabled People of Tsukui Yamayuri En Sagamihara, Japan Thursday, August 4, 2016 8 pm … Continue Reading 8/4: Online Vigil for the Murdered Disabled People of Sagamihara

Two Asian American sitting side-by-side. The woman on the left is in a wheelchair; she is wearing a green rain jacket and glasses. The woman on the right has short black hair, glasses and is wearing a striped-t-shirt. They are both smiling at the camera.

Posted December 12, 2015 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

DVP Interview: Alice Wong and Ellen Wu

On June 4, 2015 Ellen Wu interviewed her childhood friend Alice Wong at StoryCorps San Francisco for the Disability Visibility Project. Below are some condensed and edited excerpts from their … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Alice Wong and Ellen Wu