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The Disability Visibility Project is proud to have the World Institute on Disability as our 43rd media partner! From their website: The mission of the World Institute on Disability (WID) in … Continue Reading Media Partner #43: World Institute on Disability
Talk about history in action. Various community organizations such as Senior and Disability Action and the Gray Panthers blocked two tech shuttle busses in the Mission district of San Francisco … Continue Reading Disability History: Seniors and Disabled People Protesting Tech Buses, San Francisco, CA
Double woot, Bethany Stevens & CripConfessions is our 42nd media partner! Bethany Stevens is describes herself as “an uppity crip scholar-activist and sexologist. I use the word ‘crip’ in a … Continue Reading Media Partner #42: Bethany Stevens & CripConfessions
Ingrid Tischer and Ken Stein are both active members of the San Francisco Bay Area disability community. They’re also married to one another! On July 24, 2014, Ingrid and Ken … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Project: Ingrid and Ken, Berkeley, CA
A big thank you to the Community Living Campaign of San Francisco, our 38th media partner! The Community Living Campaign strengthens and mobilizes individuals and organizations to assure every person’s … Continue Reading Media Partner #38: Community Living Campaign of San Francisco
Lucia Rios is a Community Access Specialist at Disability Network Lakeshore. The following is an excerpt of an article she wrote for the blog AbleBodies on June 25, 2014. The … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Makings of an Advocate by Lucia Rios
We LOVE Twitter here at the Disability Visibility Project. We recently came across this re-tweet by Sara Hendren that we co-sign a million times! “Movements begin with the telling … Continue Reading People We Love: Sara Hendren, Cambridge, MA
Andrew Pulrang is the writer and creator of Disability Thinking, a blog that’s about: “Thinking about disability … in news, politics and policy, advocacy, ideas and philosophy, personal stories, and … Continue Reading Media Partner #37: Andrew Pulrang of Disability Thinking
Nick Dupree is a blogger and artist who happens to love bunnies (we love bunnies too at the DVP). From his website: I’m Nick, a 32 year-old disability rights and … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Hey Everyone, I Almost Died … Again by Nick Dupree
The project is thrilled to have longtime disability rights advocates Bill and Vicki Bruckner of Bruckner Consultants LLC as our 33rd media partner! Bruckner Consultants has offered disability training, consultation … Continue Reading Media Partner #33: Bruckner Consultants LLC
Cathy Kudlick, Director of the Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University blogged about the unique contributions by the Bay Area disability community in the fight for civil … Continue Reading Disabled People’s Forgotten Revolution: The 504 Occupation
We are very fortunate to have Through the Looking Glass as our 30th media partner! Through the Looking Glass (TLG) is a nationally recognized center that has pioneered research, training, … Continue Reading Media Partner #30: Through the Looking Glass
People We Love: Rebecca Cokley, Washington, DC. Rebecca describes herself this way on Twitter: “Exec Director of the National Council on Disability, a 2nd generation disability advocate, and the proud … Continue Reading People We Love: Rebecca Cokley, Washington, DC
This is the last of our guest blog posts about the 24th anniversary of the ADA. Blane Beckwith has a blog called Crippled Politics: “A Place for Political Discussion | … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Mixed Feelings: 24th Anniversary of The Americans With Disabilities Act by Blane Beckwith
Ingrid Tischer and Ken Stein are both active members of the San Francisco Bay Area disability community. They’re also married to one another! On July 24, 2014, Ingrid and Ken … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Project: Ingrid Tischer and Ken Stein, Berkeley, CA
Anita Cameron is an activist and a member of ADAPT. She describes herself this way: “I’m a disability rights activist, CERT instructor/Program Manager, writer and cat lover who has been … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Anita Cameron, ADAPT History Project