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Posted April 16, 2024 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Keep Masks in Health Care

I gave a short speech on April 16, 2024 in front of the San Francisco Department of Public at a protest organized by Senior and Disability Action. We called … Continue Reading Keep Masks in Health Care

A picture of me, an Asian American disabled woman in a wheelchair, a tracheostomy is in my throat connected to a ventilator tube. I am in the emergency room at UCSF Moffitt/Long hospital. I am swaddled in blankets, my eyes are closed, and I am trying to sleep as I am waiting for test results and a bed in the intensive care unit. Behind me is a computer monitor with a bright glow. On a table in front of me is a wheelchair battery charger.

Posted January 25, 2024 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

#N95s4UCSF: Call to Action

#N95s4UCSF: Call to Action I’m alive, bitches! My recent column in Teen Vogue about the surge and its impact on me as a high risk disabled person became … Continue Reading #N95s4UCSF: Call to Action

Horizontal view of a COVID test with two lines indicating it is positive.

Posted January 2, 2024 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon

Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon Alice Wong This summer marks my tenth year on the hellsite known as Twitter. I honed my voice as a writer, found community, and carved … Continue Reading Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon

Graphic with a green background. In the center is a photo of Moments Cooperative and Community Space members Samantha and D posing outside the bookstore entrance wearing black KN95 masks. They are leaning against a cart of books for sale. Next to them is an A-Frame reading “Moments Cooperative and Community Space. Books. Zines. Art. Residencies. Open Fri-Sat 12-6. IG: @Moments.co.op.”Behind them in the window reads “FREE PALESTINE.” Photo by Brian Ringo, 2023.

Posted January 1, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

We Keep Us Safe: Bay Area Businesses Practicing Community Care

We Keep Us Safe: Bay Area Businesses Practicing Community Care Heather Ringo As of December 2023, society has largely abandoned disabled people to COVID. This includes most businesses … Continue Reading We Keep Us Safe: Bay Area Businesses Practicing Community Care

An image of an Oregon park looking over a river, with forested hills on the opposite side of the river and industrial buildings on both sides. In the very center of the image is a large, shadowed tree, with the tree’s limbs and leaves extending up and out to the top corners of the image and the roots and shadow of the tree curving to the bottom corners of the image.

Posted November 5, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

“These Communities May Reduce but Not Eliminate Their Risk”: Oregon’s Discriminatory COVID Policies

“These Communities May Reduce but Not Eliminate Their Risk”: Oregon’s Discriminatory COVID Policies A. Smith It seems that Oregon has largely gotten out of the COVID-19 business. Throughout … Continue Reading “These Communities May Reduce but Not Eliminate Their Risk”: Oregon’s Discriminatory COVID Policies

Photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American disabled woman in a power chair. She is wearing an orange and black tiger-striped sweater, black pants, a bold red lip color and a trach at her neck. In the background is a gray cement wall with greenery. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography.

Posted September 14, 2023 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Adventures in Public Speaking

Today, September 14, 2023, I gave a virtual talk at Boston University’s School of Public Health about my anthology Disability Visibility since the school selected my book as their 2023 … Continue Reading Adventures in Public Speaking

Graphic with a black background with a photo of a 40ish mixed race Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician nonbinary femme with curly brown silver and purple hair, lying on a couch looking at the viewer horizontally. They have rose gold aviator frames, thick eyebrows, red lipstick and sand colored skin, and are looking at the viewer with a kind of tired but hopefully crip wonder. They wear a blue denim vest with a pin that says Neurodivergent Universe above a pink and blue image of a ringed planet, and a black tank top with yellow lettering that read Talk To Plants, Not Cops is barely visible. They have a tattoo of the words "We begin by listening" in magenta cursive script on their left arm.

Posted May 21, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

where do we go from here? a roundtable from some disability justice organizers in this the only moment in time

where do we go from here? a roundtable from some disability justice organizers in this the only moment in time Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Something I keep thinking this … Continue Reading where do we go from here? a roundtable from some disability justice organizers in this the only moment in time

A young, white disabled woman with long dark hair, standing outside and looking off to the side, wearing light blue sunglasses and a white t-shirt with a small black walking stick design and a black sleeveless jumpsuit over the shirt.

Posted July 24, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology

Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology Mary Frances Layden Sometimes a cocktail just takes the edge off. During lockdown, in the early days of … Continue Reading Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology

Graphic with a teal background featuring a photo of Ingrid, a middle-aged White woman with a long gray/brown ponytail who is wearing a bright blue dress and a colorful cloth face-mask. She's sitting in her wheelchair outdoors, next to a fuschia orchid. Photo credit: Christopher Egusa.

Posted May 24, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future

Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future Ingrid Tischer Reasons, I’ve got a few. But this still-current guidance from the CDC … Continue Reading Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future

A double exposure photograph, wherein two images are faded onto one another in a single image, of Jane sitting at her desk on a black office chair. Jane is a light skin East Asian person, with her eyes closed, wearing brown and black glasses and short black hair that slightly flares at the end with rounded bangs like a bowl. In one exposure Jane’s face is larger and closer to the camera; there are lights directly behind her. In the other, she is sitting on a black office chair and holding a sliced open half of a pomegranate. Behind her is a round, moon-like light. The desk behind her is a medium orange-brown and contains a head shelf, with books ordered in red, black, white, and the rest of the rainbow ordered on the top of the table. There’s a small brown monkey plushie near the left end of the desk. There’s a black and white ink illustration above the orange to blue books on top of the desk where there’s an open space.

Posted May 21, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

What Will Never Be Again

What Will Never Be Again Jane Shi Content notes: suicide, genocide, deaths in long-term care, serophobia, medical abuse, labour exploitation, overdose deaths Dionne Brand’s piercing article “On … Continue Reading What Will Never Be Again

Graphic with a teal background featuring a photo is of Anna, a white nonbinary person with shoulder-length blond hair, standing in front of a beige wall. They wear a muted orange shirt.

Posted April 10, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore: It feels like I am seeing a guy stick his head into an alligator’s mouth … Continue Reading Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore

Graphic with a dark red background and in the center a photo of a white woman, smiling and standing with her hands on her hips and head slightly tilted to the left, in front of a gray granite wall. She has short brown hair in an asymmetrical haircut, longer on her left side and shorter on her right side. She is wearing dangling silver earrings and a gray t-shirt that reads "Kaepernick 7" in red, underneath a black blazer.

Posted March 7, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism

Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism Christine Mitchell I’m tired. We’re all tired, collectively. It has been a long two years of heightened anxiety and isolation … Continue Reading Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism

Posted February 8, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence

Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence Marley Molkentin and Kennedy Healy Note from the authors: The below photos were taken in Winter and Spring of 2021 in … Continue Reading Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence

Posted February 6, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions

February 17, 2022 update: press release by Disabled Student Union and UCLA Student Body President Breeze Velasquez. We, the Disabled Student Union, the Mother Organizations Coalition, and Undergraduate … Continue Reading Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions

Graphic with a black background that reads “Abolish Long-Term Care” in white and yellow capitalized letters

Posted February 2, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Abolish Long-Term Care: Nationalize Home Care in Canada

Abolish Long-Term Care: Nationalize Home Care in Canada Megan Linton and Sarah Jama In Canada, 19,000 disabled people have died in sites of confinement and incarceration. Long-term … Continue Reading Abolish Long-Term Care: Nationalize Home Care in Canada

Graphic with a blue-gray background. In the center is a photo of a white, nonbinary, disabled fat person sits on a tan couch with their legs folded. They are wearing a wine red cardigan and a blue striped scarf, and have long, dark curly pulled back in a hair clip and have a dark beard. They are drinking a cup of tea and looking down at a tan cat sitting in their lap and petting the cat.

Posted January 26, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Disabled Deaths Are Not Your “Encouraging News”

Disabled Deaths Are Not Your “Encouraging News”: Resisting The Cruel Eugenics of Comorbidity Rhetoric Ada Hubrig “Comorbidities” is a weaselly, cruel, violent word. This word, this concept, of … Continue Reading Disabled Deaths Are Not Your “Encouraging News”