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Posted January 15, 2018 Podcast

Ep 16: Disabled Filmmakers

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Ep_16_Disabled_Filmmakers.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSThere are plenty of documentaries about disabled people but very few are directed, written, or produced … Continue Reading Ep 16: Disabled Filmmakers

Posted November 13, 20171 Comment Podcast

EP 9: Medicaid and Community Living

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Final_Ep9_96.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSToday’s episode is on Medicaid and Community Living. Alice is joined by filmmaker, writer, activist Dominick … Continue Reading EP 9: Medicaid and Community Living

Posted November 6, 2017 Podcast

Ep 8: Disabled People in Public Service

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Final_Ep8.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Today’s episode is on disabled people in public service. Maria Town, Director of the Mayor’s … Continue Reading Ep 8: Disabled People in Public Service

Posted October 1, 20176 Comments Podcast

Ep 3: Assistive Technology

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Final_Ep3_96.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS This episode is on assistive technology. All technology is assistive and the range of products … Continue Reading Ep 3: Assistive Technology

Image Description: Graphic with an illustration by artist Micah Bazant on the right side of a Black Latinx woman sitting in a wheelchair with her legs crossed who is smiling. Her arms are in front of her resting on her lap. The graphic has a white background with black text that reads: #DisabledResilient, Twitter Chat on SexualViolence & Disabled People, October 2, 2017, 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern, Hosts: @SF_War @SinsInvalid @DisVisibility

Posted September 28, 2017 DVP News and Events

10/2 #DisabledResilient Twitter Chat: Sexual Violence & Disabled People

You are invited to participate in the #DisabledResilient Twitter chat co-hosted by Dolores Tejada of San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR), Patty Berne of Sins Invalid and Alice Wong … Continue Reading 10/2 #DisabledResilient Twitter Chat: Sexual Violence & Disabled People

Graphic with a white background showing two small photos overlapping each other on the left side. The one on the very left is a photo showing Karen Nakamura, an Asian woman holding a small grey beagle puppy — her service dog, Momo, who is now fully grown. The next photo is of Sara Acevedo, a Mestiza woman with big brown eyes and pale skin color. She is positioned at a side angle with respect to the camera and is wearing a green t-shirt that reads "My other disability is a bad attitude". In black text: Celebrating Disability Culture: Interview with #Superfest2017 Judges.

Posted September 26, 2017 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Celebrating Disability Culture: Interview with #Superfest2017 Judges

Superfest International Disability Film Festival is the longest running disability film festival in the world. Co-hosted by San Francisco’s Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Paul K. Longmore Institute on … Continue Reading Celebrating Disability Culture: Interview with #Superfest2017 Judges

Posted September 24, 2017 Podcast

Ep 2: Immigration and Disability

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/FINAL_Ep2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS This episode is on immigration and the Latinx disability community. Alice talks with two activists … Continue Reading Ep 2: Immigration and Disability

Image description: graphic with a white background with black text: DVP Twitter Chat, Future of Disability Studies, September 24, 2017, 7 pm ET, #DisStudiesDVP Guest hosts: @anjalifp @DrAngelLove @lldiedrich @HaileeYoshizaki @AdamPNewman89

Posted September 17, 2017 DVP News and Events

9/24 DVP Twitter Chat: Future of Disability Studies

DVP Twitter Chat Future of Disability Studies September 24, 2017 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern Guest hosts: Lisa Diedrich, Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Angel Miles, Adam P. Newman, Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons … Continue Reading 9/24 DVP Twitter Chat: Future of Disability Studies

Posted September 13, 2017 Podcast

Ep 1: Activism and the Disability Community

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/ModifiedEp1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSThe guests for this episode are Andrew Pulrang and Gregg Beratan, co-partners in Crip The Vote, … Continue Reading Ep 1: Activism and the Disability Community

Graphic with a black background showing 3 cropped images horizontally. On the left is Laura Halvorson in her bipap breathing mask and power wheelchair wearing a turquoise ADAPT Disability Integration Act shirt. Next to her is another ADAPTer and police officers getting ready to exit the Dirksen Senate Building after getting arrested on June 22, 2017 outside Mitch McConnell’s office. She is holding a banner that says Medicaid = Life + Liberty 4 Disabled Americans. In the middle is Marilee Adamski-Smith, a woman with short blond hair, is in a wheelchair with a bar across her torso. She is wearing a black t-shirt that says "ADA 25 Americans with Disabilities Act 1990-2015." She does not have any arms or legs and has a joystick resting on her right shoulder for her wheelchair. On the right is a photo of Dominick Evans, a transgender man with short dark hair and glasses. He has stubble around his chin and neck. He is in a wheelchair with a black headrest behind him. He is wearing an argyle-print sweater in different shades of blue.

Posted September 11, 2017 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

The Power of ADAPT

I’ll always think of the summer of 2017 as the summer of ADAPT. ADAPT is a national disability rights organization in the United States that played a crucial role in … Continue Reading The Power of ADAPT

Graphic with a black background that has white text in all caps: OUR EXISTENCE IS RESISTANCE.

Posted July 4, 20172 Comments DVP News and Events

Our Existence Is Resistance: Summer fundraiser for @NationalADAPT

The Disability Visibility Project® is thrilled to offer new swag recognizing the activism taking place right now as disabled people fight for everyone’s right to healthcare, especially Medicaid: OUR EXISTENCE IS RESISTANCE. … Continue Reading Our Existence Is Resistance: Summer fundraiser for @NationalADAPT

Aqua blue graphic with the black text centered that reads: #FilmDis Twitter Chat, 20th Anniversary of Gattaca & Human Gene Editing Today, February 18, 2017 6 pm Pacific/ 9 pm Eastern, @dominickevans @DisVisibility @C_G_S @longmoreinst @DREDF On the lower-left hand corner is a black icon of a female human, male human, and a child standing next to one another with a double helix underneath. On the lower-right hand corner is a black icon that shows test tubes and a microscope.

Posted February 3, 2017 DVP News and Events

2/18 #FilmDis Chat: 20th Anniversary of #Gattaca & Human Gene Editing

#FilmDis Twitter Chat 20th Anniversary of Gattaca & Human Gene Editing Today Saturday, February 18, 2017 6 pm Pacific/ 9 pm Eastern Truth *is* stranger than fiction. Join Alice … Continue Reading 2/18 #FilmDis Chat: 20th Anniversary of #Gattaca & Human Gene Editing

Yellow graphic with black text that reads: "#CripTheVote Twitter Chat Disability Identity and Activism, February 6, 2017, 7 pm Eastern, cripthevote.blogspot.com"

Posted February 2, 2017 DVP News and Events

2/6 #CripTheVote Chat: #Disability Identity and #Activism

#CripTheVote Twitter Chat Disability Identity and Activism Monday, February 6, 2017 7 pm Eastern/ 4 pm Pacific More people than ever are becoming engaged in activism for the first time. … Continue Reading 2/6 #CripTheVote Chat: #Disability Identity and #Activism

Graphic created and uploaded with the recording to the StoryCorps app on January 23, 2017 featuring Gregg Beratan, Andrew Pulrang and Alice Wong. A bright yellow background with three images in a row in the center. On the left: a photo of a young white man with short dark brown hair and beard. He is wearing a black shirt and smiling at the camera. In the middle: graphic of a white man with brown hair and eyeglasses. He has a dark red sweater on and a tracheostomy in the center of his neck marked by a white oval with a hole. The background is dark purple-blue with splotches of light purple throughout. On the right: an Asian American woman in a wheelchair wearing a black jacket and black scarf. She is wearing a mask around her nose with along gray tube. Behind her is a brick wall with colorful street art.

Posted January 23, 20171 Comment DVP Interviews

DVP Interview: Gregg Beratan, Andrew Pulrang & Alice Wong

The three co-partners of #CripTheVote, Gregg Beratan, Andrew Pulrang, and Alice Wong, recorded their oral history for the Disability Visibility Project™ on August 23, 2016 and uploaded it to the StoryCorps … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Gregg Beratan, Andrew Pulrang & Alice Wong

The words Structured Negotiation are printed in large white text on a vibrant red band (color contrast checked for readability). The subtitle appears below in black text, with my name under that. The background of the cover is made up of three dimensional and shaded white and gray hexagons. A hexagon is a six-sided shape. There is text on two of the hexagons on the bottom left corner. One hexagon says ABA Section of Dispute Resolution. The other says ABA Commission on Disability Rights.

Posted January 16, 2017 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Interview with Lainey Feingold: Technology, Access, & Structured Negotiation

I’m always interested in the latest books on disability, technology, and accessibility. Longtime friend of the DVP and Bay Area disability rights lawyer Lainey Feingold recently authored Structured Negotiation, a Winning … Continue Reading Interview with Lainey Feingold: Technology, Access, & Structured Negotiation

Image description: A photo featuring Eli Gelardin and Christina Mills taken on January 3, 2015. A close-up portrait of a person on the left who appears to be a white man with short brown hair and a beard. He is smiling and wearing a black vest and long-sleeved shirt. To his right is a person who appears to be a white woman with long wavy brown hair that has a barrette on the left side of her hair. She is smiling at the camera and bundled with a white knit scarf around her neck and a rose-colored sweater.

Posted January 7, 2017 DVP Interviews

DVP Interview: Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin

Christina Mills and her husband Eli Gelardin recorded their oral history for the Disability Visibility Project™ at StoryCorps in San Francisco on January 3, 2015. They talked about the challenges … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Christina Mills and Eli Gelardin