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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 3 weeks ago 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”

Graphic with a pale blue background with an illustration of a megaphone in black on the left side. On the right, black text: High-Risk Pandemic Stories: A Syllabus, 2020-21, DisabilityVisibilityProject.com

Posted January 9, 2022 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

High-Risk Pandemic Stories: A Syllabus

Since March 2020 I have been collecting strands of disabled wisdom about the pandemic and trying to gather, weave, and share them. Disabled, fat, older, poor, immunocompromised, and chronically ill … Continue Reading High-Risk Pandemic Stories: A Syllabus

Graphic with a black background with a photo of a Black female with dark brown complexion, close cropped black hair, wearing a wide smile, clear plastic glass frames and sweater with a geometric pattern in eggplant, sky blue, white and light peach colors.

Posted October 13, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Accessibility and the Lack Thereof in the Film Industry

Accessibility and the Lack Thereof in the Film Industry Carolyn Hinds Being a Black woman means there isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t worry that … Continue Reading Accessibility and the Lack Thereof in the Film Industry

Graphic with a light purple background with a photo of a middle aged mixed race Sri Lankan, Irish and Romani femme, diagonially, in front of a wild river with lots of rocks. Leah has violet, brown and silver curly hair, peachy tan sand colored skin and red lipstick (Stila Stay All Day lipstick in Beso, aka "the lipstick AOC wears.") Their clothes are mostly not visible except for a blue denim vest. You can see their sleeve of tattoos, including cosmos flowers, a motherwort plant and letters in Tamil. They are smiling with bashful pride and satisfaction."

Posted October 3, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different Than Abled Mutual Aid

“We were maybe not going to save the world, but we were going to save each other.¹”: How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different Than Abled Mutual Aid Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha … Continue Reading How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different Than Abled Mutual Aid

Graphic with a soft pink background featuring a photo of Brianne, a white woman in her mid-30s wearing black framed glasses and dark brown hair in a messy bun, smiles at the camera. She’s wearing a grey tank top, holding the pink epoxy handle of her blonde wood cane up beside her face and sitting in front of a blurred off-white decorative screen. The photo has been cropped close around Brianne’s face, shoulders and cane handle.

Posted September 7, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

High-Risk Vaccine Hesitancy

High-Risk Vaccine Hesitancy Brianne Benness At this time last year, I didn’t know what to do about the flu vaccine. We were already in the thick of the pandemic: grieving … Continue Reading High-Risk Vaccine Hesitancy

This is a graphic illustration by Haley Brown with a bright cobalt blue background. There are black lungs filled with dark gray puffy clouds. In the left lung is a yellow canary bird with a red eye in a mid-flight attack pose. In the right lung there is a red circle. Around the lungs there is clear white tubing that is entwined. Above this graphic the white text reads: #SuckYouPhilips

Posted September 1, 2021 DVP News and Events

Letter from Disabled Ventilator Users on Philips Respironics Recall

Below is an open letter from a number of disabled people in the US impacted by a recall of 13 ventilators, CPAPs and BiPaps manufactured by Philips Respironics including signatures … Continue Reading Letter from Disabled Ventilator Users on Philips Respironics Recall