TagDisability Justice

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#ADA30InColor: Call for Stories

#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

Graphic with a green background with 2 photos. Left: A light-skinned woman with long wavy brown hair stands, smiling. Her face fills almost the entire photo frame. She has brown-colored eyes, brown eyeshadow, and purple lipstick while wearing a black leather jacket. Behind her is an off-white colored wall. Right: A light-skinned woman with straight red hair and bangs stands, smiling. She has brown eyes, red lipstick, a gold necklace with little moon and star charms on it. Her dress is gray and sparkly with long bell-sleeves and a black and rose-gold belt. Behind her are a ton of green trees

Posted December 1, 2019 Guest Blog Posts

The Americans With Disabilities Act Remains Crucial In The Fight Against Ableism 29 Years Later

The Americans With Disabilities Act Remains Crucial In The Fight Against Ableism 29 Years Later Amy Gaeta & Haley Moss The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) continues to … Continue Reading The Americans With Disabilities Act Remains Crucial In The Fight Against Ableism 29 Years Later

Posted November 3, 2019 Podcast

Ep 63: Climate Change

drawing by Max Airborne of themself with #DisabilityJustice activist Stacey Park, smiling & happy after getting ice cream. Red words say “we need power to live.”

Posted October 26, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Call for Stories: #PowerToLive

The Disability Justice Culture Club, a house of disabled Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the San Francisco Bay Area, invites anyone impacted by the PG&E shutoffs and wildfires … Continue Reading Call for Stories: #PowerToLive

Posted October 13, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

We Need Power to Live

Remarks by Stacey Milbern at Light up the Blackouts: A Vigil and Community Gathering -Oakland October 10, 2019 Whether it is fascism or environmental climate crisis created by greed, disabled people — … Continue Reading We Need Power to Live

Krys, a Latinx person sitting on the front steps of a building, in Chiapas, Mexico in June 2015, while investigating Central American migration and security politics.

Posted September 23, 2019 Guest Blog Posts

Academic Ableism: Fighting for Accommodations and Access in Higher Education

Academic Ableism: Fighting for Accommodations and Access in Higher Education Krys Méndez Ramírez Six years ago, when I first started applying to graduate school programs as someone with … Continue Reading Academic Ableism: Fighting for Accommodations and Access in Higher Education

Image description: Asian American woman wearing a gray hoodie with her hands crossed across her chest. She is sitting in a wheelchair and had a BiPap mask over her nose with a tube. Below is a light blue horizontal bar with white text that reads: "#WeAreMedicaid." Next to the text on the right side is a graphic of a pink heart

Posted June 27, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

The Olmstead Decision & Me

On June 26, 2019, I was on a panel hosted by The Kelsey, “Disability, Inclusion, and Community Life: A Conversation in San Francisco,” along with moderator Danh Trang and co-panelists … Continue Reading The Olmstead Decision & Me

A woman with long wavy brown hair stands, smiling. Her face fills almost the entire photo frame. She has brown-colored eyes, brown eyeshadow, and pink lipstick while wearing a long sleeve black turtleneck shirt. Behind her is an office wall covered with small artworks and photographs.

Posted June 3, 2019 Guest Blog Posts

Cripping Emotional Labor: A Field Guide

Cripping Emotional Labor: A Field Guide Amy Gaeta During my first months of graduate school, without ever applying or asking, I was given an unpaid job: campus disability … Continue Reading Cripping Emotional Labor: A Field Guide

Posted April 8, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

2019 tenBroek Disability Law Symposium: Interview with Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán

Below is an interview with Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán regarding a recent open letter by a group of lawyers, law students, and advocates to the Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium Steering Committee. … Continue Reading 2019 tenBroek Disability Law Symposium: Interview with Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán

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 April 7, 2019 Podcast

Ep 48: Care Work

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

White graphic with a photo on the left of 3 disabled Asian Americans, Mia Mingus, Alice Wong and Sandy Ho (from left to right). Mia is wearing glasses and large hoop earrings. Alice is wearing a brightly colored scarf and an army-camouflage-print jacket. She is wearing a mask over her nose with a tube for her Bi-Pap machine. Sandy has wavy short hair and is wearing a black sweater. Behind them is a concrete wall with a door. On the right, text that reads “ACCESS IS LOVE” with “O” as a red heart, “Twitter Chat, March 26, 2019, 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern, Co-hosts: @IntersectedCrip @MiaMingus @DisVisibility, Guest host: @houseofgg1 #AccessIsLove”

Posted March 13, 2019 DVP News and Events

3/26 #AccessIsLove Twitter Chat

Join Mia Mingus, Sandy Ho, and Alice Wong for a conversation about access from a disability justice perspective on March 26, 2019, 4 pm Pacific with guest host House of … Continue Reading 3/26 #AccessIsLove Twitter Chat

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

A stack of 17 library books lying horizontally. Text on the spines of the books from top to bottom: The Girl with All the Gifts, Disability and Difference in Global Contexts, Truevine, Normalization, The Ugly Laws, Kindred, Black Disabled Art History 101, Killing the Black Body, Forgotten Crimes, The Diary of Frida Kahlo, All the Weight of Our Dreams, Medical Apartheid, Unspeakable: The Story of Junnius Wilson, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, Blood in the Water, Sick from Freedom, Thinking Class

Posted February 24, 2019 Guest Blog Posts

Collecting [a] home for Disability Justice in the Library

Collecting [a] home for Disability Justice in the Library Written by Dana Bishop-Root and Dustin Gibson in collaboration with Bekezela Mguni. Audio version by Imani Barbarin. http://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Collecting_a_home_for_Disability_J.mp3 Content Warnings: … Continue Reading Collecting [a] home for Disability Justice in the Library

Posted February 1, 2019 DVP News and Events

Access Is Love

I’m excited to announce the launch of a new project in collaboration with Mia Mingus and Sandy Ho: Access Is Love. Access Is Love aims to help build a world … Continue Reading Access Is Love

Posted January 29, 2019 DVP News and Events

2/14 #DOnetwork Twitter Chat: Solidarity As Love

In partnership with the Disability Organizing (DO) Network, the Disability Visibility Project® will host a Twitter chat on solidarity as a form of love. We are thrilled to have writer/activist … Continue Reading 2/14 #DOnetwork Twitter Chat: Solidarity As Love