TagDisabled Palestinians

Graphic with a beige background. On the left and right are multicolored snakes with different patterns along their bodies. On the top and bottom are cloud shapes in magenta. Text in the center reads, "Crips for eSIMs for Gaza: A Lunar New Year Update"

Posted January 29, 2025 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Crips for eSIMs for Gaza: A Lunar New Year Update

Crips for eSIMs for Gaza: A Lunar New Year Update Year of the Snake Means Transformation After 470 days and 76 years of genocide, Gaza finally has a … Continue Reading Crips for eSIMs for Gaza: A Lunar New Year Update

Graphic with a dark blue background. In the center is a close-up of Khaled outside in the sun, dark brown hair combed up, slight brown beard and hazel-brown eyes staring into the camera. He wears a slight smile and a blue and gray zip up with maroon shirt underneath.

Posted December 16, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

The Intersection of Disability and Genocide

The Intersection of Disability and Genocide dena harry saleh En Español “Flies, mosquitoes, gunshots and bombing – everything is against me 😂” – Khaled Sulaiman … Continue Reading The Intersection of Disability and Genocide

Graphic with a beige background and delicate pink and purple flowers on the upper left and lower right corners. At the bottom in large print, THANK YOU! 3 photos from left to right: Alice, an Asian American disabled woman with a tracheostomy at her neck. She is smiling with her head tilted toward some bird of paradise plants, Leah, a mixed-race Sri Lankan and white nonbinary femme in their late 40s with teal curly hair, sand color skin and big metal glasses, looks contemplatively and with a slight smile at the viewer. Their hair matches the teal wall behind them, and their dark hot pink lipstick matches the hot pink velvet couch heaped with cushions behind them. They wear a black t shirt with the sleeves cut off and a gold hoop earring that reads “Burn It Down,” one double spiral tattoo is visible on their right shoulder (taken September 2024), and Jane, a person with pale-tan skin with her body away from the camera but her face smiling towards it. She’s wearing a blue jean jacket that reads “Nobody Loves You” in the back, embroidered in white calligraphy. Her hair is nearly shoulder-length with dark red highlights at the end and she’s wearing large round black-gray glasses. The background is a park during the day-time. Photo credit: Joy Gyamfi.

Posted October 7, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

Disabled People Jury Rigging Internet Connections During a Genocide: A Thank You Note

Disabled People Jury Rigging Internet Connections During a Genocide: A Thank You Note Today marks one year since the amplified Israeli genocide of Gaza began on October 7, 2023. … Continue Reading Disabled People Jury Rigging Internet Connections During a Genocide: A Thank You Note

Posted June 30, 2024 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Palestine X Disability Justice Syllabus

One of my goals an editor, writer, and activist is to speak out about the genocide carried out by the Israeli Defense Forces against the people of Gaza. I remember … Continue Reading Palestine X Disability Justice Syllabus

Photo of Samar AlKhdour wearing a light pink baseball cap and a red and white Keffiyeh standing in conversation with a sit-in supporter in front of Canadian Minister of Immigration Marc Miller’s riding office in Montreal on April 29, 2024. Behind them are the Immigration minister’s outside office-building walls covered in posters and stickers in support of Palestinian liberation. In the foreground, there is a bright green banner with the words: “My dream for my children of a safe and better future was assassinated with the last breath their sister Jana took on 8/1/24 in Gaza.” The lettering is white and black. There are also red Palestinian poppy flowers sewn into the banner. Photo by Nelly Bassily

Posted June 1, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

Disabled children are killed by the Zionist Occupation of Gaza: How one Gazan mother’s tragedy has fuelled a sit-in action

Nelly Bassily Samar Alkhdour is a Palestinian human rights defender and mom who has faced impossible decisions. Like any ambitious and driven human, she was looking to create … Continue Reading Disabled children are killed by the Zionist Occupation of Gaza: How one Gazan mother’s tragedy has fuelled a sit-in action

Graphic with a white background and illustrations of olive tree branches on all four corners. In the center a photo of a Palestinian Jordanian woman in her 40s with dark curly hair, purple glasses wearing her Palestinian kuffiyeh over her shoulders as well as a necklace of the map of Palestine, behind her on the wall is an embroidered map of Palestine

Posted April 16, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

The Psychological Terrorism of Witnessing Genocide in Gaza

The Psychological Terrorism of Witnessing Genocide in Gaza Abla Abdelhadi Content notes: genocide, death, dying, torture, abuse, intergenerational trauma, violence, terrorism, psychological terrorism When I was asked … Continue Reading The Psychological Terrorism of Witnessing Genocide in Gaza

Sarah, a white woman with brown hair pulled back, smiling at the camera. She is wearing a green blazer and navy blouse.

Posted March 3, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

#AltTextPalestine: Showing Solidarity By Creating Access

#AltTextPalestine: Showing Solidarity By Creating Access Sarah Blahovec Images and videos coming out of Gaza show the horror of the genocide every single day. Bombs rain down on … Continue Reading #AltTextPalestine: Showing Solidarity By Creating Access

Ilustración con un fondo azul cielo y pedazos de sandía en forma triangular y con semillas de sandía. En el centro con un fondo cuadrado blanco un texto dice Crips por eSims para Gaza.

Posted February 15, 2024 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Crips por eSims para Gaza

Crips* por eSims para Gaza * “Crips” viene de la palabra “cripple” y es un término que ha sido reclamado para gente discapacitada que sería el equivalente de minusvalido … Continue Reading Crips por eSims para Gaza

Image of Leah and two friends at a protest. One friend is a white, Greek/Irish femme person in her 40s with greying undercut brown hair wearing a black KN95 mask, they are holding a sign that says 50% OF GAZA IS UNDER 18 STOP KILLING KIDS. The second person is a Syrian masculine person wearing a green hat, a green and black flannel over a black t shirt with lilac lettering, holding a sign that reads CEASEFIRE NOW: FREE PALESTINE with two red black green and white Palestinian flags. Leah stands to the right leaning on their friend with their head on their shoulder, wearing a black leather jacket, black leather skirt, pink and white keffiyeh and lilac KN95 mask, holding a sign that reads, "Affirm life." Protestors can be seen in the background at a rotary in mid fall by a tree

Posted January 26, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

Palestine is Disabled

Palestine is Disabled Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha I am not the first or last person to say this, but: Everyone in Palestine is disabled right now. Whether it’s disabled … Continue Reading Palestine is Disabled