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Graphic with an orange background featuring an illustration of s.e. smith, in a palette of rich oranges, reds, and greens. smith, a white person with brown curly hair, is midframe, draped in a scarf and wearing large green glasses. An arch of flowers rises behind their head, featuring nasturtiums, columbine, and California poppies. Artist credit: Michaela Oteri

Posted May 2, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Rest in Peace, Bitch Magazine

Rest in Peace, Bitch Magazine s.e. smith My first experience with Bitch Magazine was seeing it peeping out from around the corner of another publication in the magazine rack … Continue Reading Rest in Peace, Bitch Magazine

Graphic with a sky blue background featuring a photo in the center of Jocelyn Mondragon. A Mexican woman with curly short black hair, smiling straight at the camera. In front of an orange painted brick wall, Jocelyn is wearing a beige corduroy jacket with a blue and yellow checkered sweater underneath. A black and white striped strap is across her shoulder.

Posted April 1, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No

We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No Jocelyn Mondragon-Rosas Spoiler alert: I will be discussing the whole film, characters, and storyline from the Disney film Encanto. … Continue Reading We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No

$Graphic with a leaf green background. Left: A white woman with short hair and an occluded cataract on her right eye wearing purple hearing aids and a pearl necklace, looking with raised eyebrows at camera between trees. Photo credit: Lis Mitchell, 2021. Right: Cover image of Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson. From the letter “I” in “BEING,” the color of Elsa’s cataract refracts in a rainbow-colored prismatic effect over a dark background. “Deafblind” is emphasized with light.$

Posted October 24, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Elsa Sjunneson

Congratulations on your first memoir, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, available October 26, 2021 from Simon and Schuster! How are you feeling right now in … Continue Reading Q&A with Elsa Sjunneson

A still from the animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch featuring the main characters from left to right: Crosshair, Echo, Hunter, Tech, and Wrecker. In the foreground on the lower right corner is the back of Omega, a young girl

Posted August 2, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Supercrips, Solidarity, and Crip Families in The Bad Batch

Supercrips, Solidarity, and Crip Families in The Bad Batch Dr. Johnathan Flowers Content notes: eugenics, applied behavioral analysis, torture, genetic manipulation, ableist terminology Spoilers below for The Bad Batch season … Continue Reading Supercrips, Solidarity, and Crip Families in The Bad Batch

Graphic with a coral background and a head and shoulders picture of Tinu Abayomi-Paul, against a light brown walk. She is a dark skinned woman with chin length curly black hair. She has on red lipstick and her left gold colored hoop earring is visible. She is not smiling, but looks content. She has a hand lightly pressed against her chest and is wearing a dark blue, light blue and black blouse patterned in zigzag stripes. She's looking directly into the camera.

Posted February 14, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Ep_93_final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Today’s episode features an interview with Johnnie Jae who is from the Otoe-Missouria and Choctaw … Continue Reading Ep 93: Indigenous Disabled Creators

Da'Shaun is standing in a room with his head turned to the left glaring at something off camera. His hair is hanging down, he has on red and black glasses, and his mouth is opened slightly—a partial grin, of sorts

Posted April 2, 2019 Guest Blog Posts

The Anti-Blackness in Critiques of Lupita Nyong’o in Us

The Anti-Blackness in Critiques of Lupita Nyong’o in Us Da’Shaun Harrison ***THIS ARTICLE DOES INCLUDE SPOILERS*** Jordan Peele’s sophomore film, Us, debuted just days ago, March 22, … Continue Reading The Anti-Blackness in Critiques of Lupita Nyong’o in Us

Black woman with black hair and black glasses is wearing a white shirt and smiling in front of a green flowered wall. Photo credit: Reid Beels

Posted December 16, 2018 Podcast

Ep 40: Disabled Writers with Keah Brown

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Final_Ep_40.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSToday’s episode is about disabled writers with Keah Brown, journalist, freelance writer, and creator of the … Continue Reading Ep 40: Disabled Writers with Keah Brown

Posted January 1, 20181 Comment Podcast

Ep 15: Star Trek: Discovery

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/15_Ep_15_Star_Trek_Discovery.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSToday’s episode is about the television show, Star Trek: Discovery. Guests Andrew Pulrang and Day Al-Mohamed … Continue Reading Ep 15: Star Trek: Discovery

Image with a black background composed of 3 photos and text in white. On the lower left-hand corner is a photo of an African American woman with short black hair. She's inside an office and sitting nearby a table with a computer. She's wearing a beige pullover and smiling at the camera. In the upper-left-hand side is a photo of a young man with one above-the-knee amputation on his left leg. He is balancing two crutches with his left arm. He is wearing denim shorts, that, glasses and a beard. Behind him is a neighborhood by the beach with a row of palm trees. On the lower-right hand side of the image is a photo of a young white woman with long reddish-blond hair. Her left arm is raised and her hand bent against her face. She is smiling and wearing a white and magenta-striped t-shirt. On the upper right-hand quadrant is white text that reads: "Celebrating Disability Culture: Interviews with #Superfest2016 Judges"

Posted August 1, 20163 Comments Guest Blog Posts

Celebrating Disability Culture: Interview with #Superfest2016 Judges

As someone who loves film, it’s dismaying to find such an uneven range of films about disabled people. There are the treacly, Oscar-bait films that follow every inspirational trope and … Continue Reading Celebrating Disability Culture: Interview with #Superfest2016 Judges

A panel from a comic book. On the left is an image of a blond woman holding fruit roll-ups. She is blonde, has blue eyes and wear glasses. She's holding the snacks and there's a bubble that says, "Fruit Snack?" on the right side is another image of the same woman in a wheelchair wheeling herself. She is wearing a green top and dark blue pants

Posted June 23, 2015 Guest Blog Posts

Disabled Geeks: Improve Representation of Disability in Wikis

Calling all geeky crips! Do you have a favorite comic book character with a disability? Do you find wiki posts about disabled comic book characters ableist, inaccurate or devoid of … Continue Reading Disabled Geeks: Improve Representation of Disability in Wikis