TagDisability Rights

Graphic with a white background and at the top is a row of colorful paint in rainbow colors dripping down. Text in black at the bottom reads #ADA30InColor

Posted January 14, 2020 DVP News and Events

#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

Digital art of 6 people of different ages, races and disabilities, service dog. Text: How an Accurate Census Count Benefits Disabled People. Join us February 5, 2020 at 3PM. A #DOnetwork Twitter Chat. Logos: Disability Organizing Network, DREDF, California Census, and Disability Visibility, Twitter bird.

Posted January 11, 2020 DVP News and Events

2/5 #DOnetwork Twitter Chat on Census 2020

#DisabilityCounts2020: How an Accurate Census Count Benefits Disabled People February 5, 2020 3-4 PM Pacific In partnership with the Disability Organizing (DO) Network, the Disability Visibility Project will host a … Continue Reading 2/5 #DOnetwork Twitter Chat on Census 2020

The photo shows the head and shoulders of a white woman, with make up and red lipstick, staring directly at you with her dark brown eyes. A slim woman, her navy blue long sleeved top frames her bare neck and her straight, dark brown hair frames her face and her high forehead.

Posted December 29, 2019 Podcast

Ep 67: Disabled Actors

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/67_Ep_67_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSS Today’s episode features an interview with Liz Carr, an actor, … Continue Reading Ep 67: Disabled Actors

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

Photo of Nadia LaSpina, an Italian American woman with long curly gray hair with a microphone in front of her. She is wearing a black puffy jacket outdoors.

Posted November 22, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Book excerpt from Nadina LaSpina’s memoir “Such a Pretty Girl”

The following is a short adapted excerpt from Chapter 24 in a new memoir by Nadina LaSpina, Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride. Chapter … Continue Reading Book excerpt from Nadina LaSpina’s memoir “Such a Pretty Girl”

A young white woman with chin-length brown hair smiles at the camera. She wears a white shirt and sits in a black motorized wheelchair. Behind her are several blooming cherry blossom trees.

Posted November 19, 2019 Guest Blog Posts

America’s Medicaid Trap: Essay by Anna Landre

America’s Medicaid Trap Anna Landre Most nondisabled people I meet seem to assume that the U.S. government provides disabled Americans all the services and supports we need to survive, … Continue Reading America’s Medicaid Trap: Essay by Anna Landre

Posted September 30, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q & A with Pia Justesen on Disability and Human Rights

Below is an interview with Pia Justesen, author of a new book featuring oral histories of people with disabilities, From the Periphery: Real-Life Stories of Disability, published by Lawrence Hill … Continue Reading Q & A with Pia Justesen on Disability and Human Rights

Posted September 3, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Haben Girma on her new memoir

I’ve known Haben Girma for years and got to record her oral history for the DVP in 2015. I was delighted to interview her again about her new memoir, Haben: … Continue Reading Q&A with Haben Girma on her new memoir

[left] Heather Watkins, a light-complected Black woman shown shoulders up wearing hair in a bun atop her head, blue button earrings, makeup with red lipstick and smiling. She is wearing olive-colored blazer and blue and white patterned blouse with long necklace of various blue-colored pendants. [right] Eliza Hull, young white woman with curly long brown hair sitting in front of large rocks wearing a blue denim shirt with a large round pendant around her neck.

Posted July 27, 2019 Podcast

Ep 56: Parenting

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/56_Ep_56_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSSToday’s episode is on parenting with Eliza Hull and Heather Watkins. … Continue Reading Ep 56: Parenting

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

Graphic with a white background with text: “#DisabilityCivics Twitter Chat, Civic Participation & the Disability Community, May 22, 2019, 4 pm Pacific/ 5 pm Mountain/ 6 pm Central/ 7 pm Eastern, Co-hosts: @LurieInstitute @IntersectedCrip @DisVisibility” On the left is a black Twitter bird and on the right is a computer screen with two caption bubbles coming out.

Posted May 1, 2019 DVP News and Events

5/22 #DisabilityCivics Twitter Chat

You are invited to participate in the #DisabilityCivics Twitter chat co-hosted by Sandy Ho of the Lurie Institute and Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project on May 22, 2019, … Continue Reading 5/22 #DisabilityCivics Twitter Chat

Graphic with text in the upper left corner that reads “Disability Organizing Network Twitter Chat with the Disability Visibility Project®, Disability Advocacy & Our Public Officials, Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 3 pm Pacific” below are the logos for Disability Action Coalition, “Gear up for Disability & Aging Capitol Action Day!” and DO Network, “For more: DOnetwork.org” On the right is an illustration of a capitol building with a dome and two Twitter bird icons in green and blue with speech bubbles that read #DOnetwork

Posted April 29, 2019 DVP News and Events

5/7 #DOnetwork Twitter Chat: Disability Advocacy & Our Public Officials

In partnership, the Disability Organizing (DO) Network, Disability Action Coalition, and the Disability Visibility Project® will host a Twitter chat on disability advocacy with public officials on Tuesday, May 7, … Continue Reading 5/7 #DOnetwork Twitter Chat: Disability Advocacy & Our Public Officials

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

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