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The Chinese character for self (自/zì) and the character in can (可/kě) with the traditional Chinese character for love (愛/ài) inside the character for mouth (口/ kǒu). The letters are black and are centred on a translucent white inset rectangular background in front of a background of an abundant bush of leaves and pink-white roses.

Posted June 13, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue

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

White background with orbiting multi-color-speckled brushstrokes. Title (in bolded black text): “Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity." Below it, in gold: "Winner of the Autism Society of America's Outstanding Literary Work of the Year." Below it: "Edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport, and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu"

Posted May 12, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Interview with co-editors of Sincerely, Your Autistic Child

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

The image shows a young American male in his 20s of Indian American descent, with brown skin and black hair. He is sitting at a desk with a laptop open in front of him with some books on the side of the table. The laptop has the word Berkeley on it as does the brown t-shirt he is wearing. Behind him on the wall are college banners and posters with words like Cal, Golden Bears, and catchy phrases like, Bear Den, enter at your own risk.

Posted February 6, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

A Boy Like Me

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.

Posted December 12, 2020 Podcast

Ep 92: Disabled Afro-Latina Artists

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/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

Leah looks at the camera in a garden in South Seattle in August. She has long curly brown, silver and green hair, dark magenta lipstick and light brown skin, and is grinning in front of a garden wall covered in blooming jasmine. Photo credit: Jesse Manuel Graves

Posted August 24, 2020 Guest Blog Posts

Cripping The Resistance: No Revolution Without Us

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

Smiling cis-male with brown complexion, glasses, dark brown eyes, and locs. He is wearing a light blue shirt

Posted July 19, 2020 Guest Blog Posts

#BlackAutisticJoy in ADA 30

#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

Image is a photo of Hannah Gadsby in a dark suit, holding some of her handmade pet rocks.

Posted May 26, 2020 Guest Blog Posts

Interview with Hannah Gadsby on autism, accommodations and performing live

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

Posted May 7, 2018 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Disability & Intersectionality Summit: Interview with Sharon daVanport

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

Photo of a middle-aged white woman with brown shoulder-length hair smiling at the camera.

Posted September 22, 20141 Comment Guest Blog Posts

Ableism & Sex Abuse: Interview with Heather Ure

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