TagDisabled performers

IMAGE OF MIXED ABILITIES DANCE TEACHER INDIA HARVILLE. SHE IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN WITH HAIR IN LOCKS, WEARING ALL BLACK, SITTING ON THE FLOOR WITH HER HANDS CLASPED, SMILING AT THE CAMERA.

Posted August 8, 2020 Podcast

Ep 83: Disabled Dancers

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/FINAL_Ep_83.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Today’s episode is all about disabled dancers with India Harville, an African American queer disabled … Continue Reading Ep 83: Disabled Dancers

A brown round queer with glasses and short spiky hair performs at a microphone in front of the rainbow and transgender flags. They smile holding a microphone with their hand outstretched.

Posted March 29, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Editor’s note: Below is an interview with Kay Ulanday Barrett, someone I admired for a long time from afar about a new book of poetry by Kay, More Than Organs, available … Continue Reading Q&A with Kay Ulanday Barrett

[Left] Photo of Samuel Valdez, performing in his show And He Became Man. A Latino disabled man questions his manhood by looking back at his life recalling major events influencing him, asking, “What is a man”. [Right] Photo of Jason Dorwart, a white male about 40 years old with a long beard and greying hair looks at the camera. He wears a blue and red plaid shirt. Behind him is a mural silver, pink, and blue graffiti lettering.

Posted January 26, 2020 Podcast

Ep 69: Theatre

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/EP69_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Today’s episode is all about theatre with Jason Dorwart and Samuel Valdez. Jason is a … Continue Reading Ep 69: Theatre

Black-and-white photo of an Indonesian woman in a cardigan and dress, with a door as backdrop. Picture credit: Wasi Daniju.

Posted October 6, 2019 Podcast

Ep 61: Poetry

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Final_Ep_61.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Today’s episode is on poetry with Khairani Barokka, an Indonesian disabled writer, poet, and artist … Continue Reading Ep 61: Poetry

Graphic with an aqua blue background with black text that reads: #CripTheStage Twitter Chat, Disabled Performers & Accessibility, April 3, 2019, 3 pm Pacific/ 4 pm Mountain/ 5 pm Central/ 6 pm Eastern, Co-hosts: @GaelynnLea @wcsportscamp @DisVisibility. On the left is an illustration of a microphone. On the right is an illustration of a cat singing with musical notes above the cat.

Posted March 11, 2019 DVP News and Events

4/3 #CripTheStage Twitter Chat

Please join disabled artists Gaelynn Lea and Kalyn Heffernan and Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project for a conversation on accessibility and disabled performers on April 3, 2019, 3 … Continue Reading 4/3 #CripTheStage Twitter Chat