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Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue Jane Shi Content notes: child abandonment, abusive adoptive parents, anti-Asian violence and misogyny, mass shooting, ableist slurs and language, forced restraint of autistic people, … Continue Reading Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue
Below is an interview with Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport, and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, the co-editors of a brand new anthology, Sincerely, Your Autistic Child (Beacon Books), available now. For … Continue Reading Interview with co-editors of Sincerely, Your Autistic Child
A Boy Like Me Hari Srinivasan One morning in late November 2020, I woke up to find that my rather modest twitter account had somehow gained around 1500 followers … Continue Reading A Boy Like Me
![Graphic with a light aqua blue mineral-like background featuring two photos. [left] Photo of Jen White-Johnson, an Afro-Latina woman who is wearing a light blue denim shirt. She has a cinnamon complexion with a small brown birthmark on her left cheek. She is wearing earrings with the raised solidarity fist with an inverted triangle below. She is also wearing a wide-brimmed brown hat. [right] Photo of Knox White-Johnson, a Black Autistic boy smiling and holding a sticker designed by his mother, Jen White-Johnson, an illustration of a raised solidarity fist in black with an infinity symbol at the wrist in white with the words ‘Black Disabled Lives Matter’ below.](https://i2.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/jen-white-johnson-twitter.png?resize=700%2C476&ssl=1)
https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/p/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/92_Ep_92_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSS Today’s episode features an interview with Jen White-Johnson, an Afro-Latina … Continue Reading Ep 92: Disabled Afro-Latina Artists
Cripping The Resistance: No Revolution Without Us Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Dedicated to my beloved friend and long time comrade in disability justice, Stacey Park Milbern, who cripped the … Continue Reading Cripping The Resistance: No Revolution Without Us
#BlackAutisticJoy in ADA 30 Timotheus “T.J.” Gordon, Jr. Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Timotheus_Gordon_Jr-BlackDisabledJoy_ADA_30.mp3 Preface: While #BlackAutisticJoy is a hashtag that is widely used to express the fun in being black and … Continue Reading #BlackAutisticJoy in ADA 30
Hannah Gadsby on autism, accommodations and performing live Sharon daVanport If you’re one of the millions of people who watched comedian Hannah Gadsby fiercely take on homophobia, misogyny, sexism, … Continue Reading Interview with Hannah Gadsby on autism, accommodations and performing live
By Sandy Ho The purpose of the upcoming Disability & Intersectionality Summit (DIS) is to flip the flow of power and conversation towards disability justice to center marginalized disabled people, … Continue Reading Disability & Intersectionality Summit: Interview with Sharon daVanport
In 2010, administrators at Sparksman Middle School (near Huntsville, Alabama) used a 14-year old girl with special needs as ‘bait’ to catch a 16-year old male, also a student with … Continue Reading Ableism & Sex Abuse: Interview with Heather Ure