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Healing a 75 year open wound: A call for lasting peace from the river to the sea Marina Khaled Salman It may have been fate or a message from … Continue Reading Healing a 75 year open wound: A call for lasting peace from the river to the sea
My Villain Origin Story: Break-up with My Disability Constituency Organization Rebecca Cokley Content notes: cures, eugenics My name is Rebecca Cokley. My parents met in 1970 at … Continue Reading My Villain Origin Story: Break-up with My Disability Constituency Organization
20 Questions for Disability-Inclusive Employers Aubrie Lee We deserve better We deserve the best We deserve to get out of bed We deserve to rest We deserve to work … Continue Reading 20 Questions for Disability-Inclusive Employers
All politics are local, right? All over the United States, more disabled people are running for office and winning. Here is my interview with Ligia Andrade Zúñiga about her campaign … Continue Reading Q&A with Ligia Andrade Zúñiga
https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/90_Ep_90_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Every political issue is a disability issue and as the daughter of immigrants, I know … Continue Reading Ep 90: Disabled Immigrants
Q&A with Eiko Kimura, disabled politician and Upper House member of The Diet in Japan 重度の障害を持つ日本の政治家、れいわ新選組所属の参議院議員、木村英子様との質疑応答。 Disabled people all over the world are engaged politically and making a difference. I … Continue Reading Q&A with Eiko Kimura 木村英子様との質疑応答
https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/88_Ep_88_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS With Election Day just two weeks away in the United States on November 3rd, this … Continue Reading Ep 88: Policy
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
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
SixPointSeventyFive (6.75) Teefloetry Content notes: domestic violence, law enforcement, abuse, harassment, trauma Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Teefloetry-SixPointSeventyFive.mp3 I was two years old when the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) … Continue Reading SixPointSeventyFive (6.75)
On January 14, 2020, the Disability Visibility Project called for submissions by disabled BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) writers for #ADA30InColor: a series of original essays on the … Continue Reading 7/26 #ADA30InColor Online Event
Reasons to be Angry During a Pandemic Hannah Soyer I woke up a few days ago feeling incredibly angry. It is a feeling reminiscent of the months preceding … Continue Reading Reasons to be Angry During a Pandemic
https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Ep77_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS This May is Mental Health Awareness month and today I speak with Kathy Flaherty about … Continue Reading Ep 77: Mental Health Advocacy
Interview with Héctor M. Ramírez on hunger and food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic This is a condensed interview with Héctor M. Ramírez, a disability rights advocate who volunteers at … Continue Reading Food Insecurity & COVID-19: Interview with Héctor M. Ramírez
What is life? 2020 has certainly taken a turn. Like, seriously! Storytelling is more important than ever during the coronavirus pandemic as we see disabled, sick, and immunocompromised share their … Continue Reading DVP Coronavirus Stories
![[left] Photo of life-partners and Co-Executive Directors of The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, Shaylin Sluzalis and Germán Parodi. On the left is Shaylin Sluzalis, a white woman with long brown curly hair, in a red long sleeve ADAPT shirt smiles as she sits on the side of Germán Parodi's wheelchair who is on the right of Shaylin. Germán Parodi, a Puerto Rican man is sitting in his manual wheelchair with long dark brown curly hair, in a long navy blue ADAPT shirt with a slight grin and his arm around Shaylin. Their background is a light blue painting with multi-colored lines from wheelchair wheels with paint, a project done by disabled Philadelphian's with Disability Pride Philadelphia. Photo credit: Albert Yee [right] Biracial woman with curly black hair is smiling for the camera. She has black-rimmed glasses and is wearing a blue, flowered romper. She is seated in a coffee shop, backs of patrons visible behind her.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/German-and-Valerie-Twitter.png?resize=700%2C476&ssl=1)
https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/75_Ep_75_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Today’s episode is about natural disasters and emergency preparedness with Germán Luis Parodi and Valerie … Continue Reading Ep 75: Coronavirus and Disaster Planning