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Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights Joe Stramondo In 2019, a White disability rights leader with a national reputation, Bruce Darling, had a spectacular fall from grace because of comments … Continue Reading Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights
Unmasking Mask Hate: The Racial-Criminal Pathologization of Dissent Leah Harris and Liat Ben-Moshe Masking as a constitutional matter hit the news cycle once again on June 8 when … Continue Reading Unmasking Mask Hate: The Racial-Criminal Pathologization of Dissent
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
Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy Thomas Reid When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the world changed … Continue Reading Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy
Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire Qudsiya Naqui Content notes: ableist and sanist language, eugenics, suicide, medical neglect, suffering, abuse, violence, incarceration I first became interested … Continue Reading Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire
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
![[left] An illustration of a child facing the right with neck-length, matted brown hair, standing in front of a faded yellow sun that encircles the profile of the child's face. The child is wearing a burgundy tank top which is partially covered by tall red grass that also covers the bottom of the illustration all the way up to the child's chest. The child's face is hidden behind the mask of another face resembling an adult Hari Ziyad with facial hair and their eyes closed, and there is an outgrowth of dandelions between the two faces. There is an orange butterfly flying to the left of the child's hair and a yellow butterfly flying in front of the hair, and everything is drawn over a pink background. In small cursive white letters above the sun are the words "a memoir," and in white block letters over the child's face are the words "BLACK BOY OUT OF TIME." At the bottom over the red grass are smaller white block letters reading, "HARI ZIYAD." [right] Hari Ziyad, a Black person with a bald head and short facial hair, stands in front of a dark grey background looking into the camera with a slight smile. They are shown from the shoulders up wearing a black knitted sweater, with a black circular earring in their left ear. Photo by Brandon Nick](https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HARI-TWITTER.png?resize=700%2C476&ssl=1)
Interview with Hari Ziyad Please tell me a little about yourself! I am a storyteller from Cleveland, Ohio, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. I come from a blended … Continue Reading Interview with Hari Ziyad
The King and Lies Tinu Abayomi-Paul The day you realize as a Black person, that your people were enslaved, and are still being oppressed, in order to provide the … Continue Reading The King and Lies
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
![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://i0.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/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/92_Ep_92_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Today’s episode features an interview with Jen White-Johnson, an Afro-Latina disabled artist, photographer, educator, and … Continue Reading Ep 92: Disabled Afro-Latina Artists
Abolition Must Include Psychiatry By Stella Akua Mensah Edited by Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu Content notes: sanism, racism, violence, state violence, incarceration, institutionalization, forced ‘treatment’, torture, medical coercion, restraint, seclusion, abuse, … Continue Reading Abolition Must Include Psychiatry
The burden and consequences of self-advocacy for disabled BIPOC Aparna R. Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Aparna_R-ADA30InColor-The_burden_and_consequences_of_self-advocacy_for_disabled_BIPOC.mp3 The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed the year I was born and it … Continue Reading The burden and consequences of self-advocacy for disabled BIPOC
Missing Step Reyma McCoy McDeid Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Reyma_McCoy_McDeid-Missing_Step.mp3 Author’s note: although several organizations- and my roles within them- are mentioned here, views and opinions expressed in this essay are … Continue Reading Missing Step
The Future Liberation of Disability Movements Valerie Novack Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Valerie_Novack-The_Future_Liberation_of_Disability_Movements.mp3 The room is full of young nursing students eager to learn more about disability. I have sat through … Continue Reading The Future Liberation of Disability Movements
SixPointSeventyFive (6.75) Teefloetry Content notes: domestic violence, law enforcement, abuse, harassment, trauma Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Teefloetry-SixPointSeventyFive.mp3 I was two years old when the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) … Continue Reading SixPointSeventyFive (6.75)
26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets. (a list) June 2020 updates Contributors Ejeris Dixon, Piper Anderson, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Ro Garrido, Emi Kane, Bhavana Nancherla, … Continue Reading 26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets (June 2020 update)