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The Disability Visibility Project kicked off in July 2014 and since it’s almost the midpoint of our project, I’d like to express my gratitude to the many people who recorded their … Continue Reading Happy New Year from the Disability Visibility Project
Lainey Feingold interviewed Josh Miele at StoryCorps San Francisco on August 21, 2014 for the Disability Visibility Project. This is the last of two blog posts. Below are some excerpts … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Lainey Feingold and Josh Miele, Part 2
Lainey Feingold interviewed Josh Miele at StoryCorps San Francisco on August 21, 2014 for the Disability Visibility Project. This is the first of two blog posts. Below are some excerpts … Continue Reading DVP Interview: Lainey Feingold and Josh Miele
Many people on twitter have been tweeting lately about #BlackLivesMatter in light of recent events this year. Persephone Jones, @galvezmiro, has been tweeting the names and photos of black and disabled people killed … Continue Reading #DisabledBlackLivesMatterToo by Persephone Jones
Alice Wong, Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, interviewed Eric Koenig, former Director of the Office of Student Life at the University of California, San Francisco, on October 25, … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Project: Eric Koenig, Part 2
Alice Wong, Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, interviewed Eric Koenig, former Director of the Office of Student Life at the University of California, San Francisco, on October 25, … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Project: Eric Koenig, Part 1
There are SO many great tumblrs out there by people with disabilities. Letters to Thrive was created by Sandy Ho and this is one you should definitely explore. From their … Continue Reading Letters to Thrive: Letters by Women with Disabilities to their Younger Selves
It’s Our Story is a national initiative to make disability history public and accessible. Scott Cooper recorded and collected over 1,300 video interviews from disability leaders across the country since … Continue Reading Disability History: Elmer Bartels and Fred Fay, Boston, MA
Alice Wong, Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, had a chance to interview her friend and former ramp taxi driver Mike Rothstein on September 18, 2014 at StoryCorps San … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Project: Mike Rothstein, San Francisco, CA
The Disability Visibility Project loves it when people reach out to us and share their projects on disability history. Sarika D. Metha is a Producer for APA Compass on KBOO 90.7 FM, specializing … Continue Reading Deaf South Asian Americans: Karthik’s First Days
Several months ago, Kanye West called out people with disabilities at his concert, stopping everything, demanding to know why they aren’t standing and dancing. David Perry wrote about this incident … Continue Reading How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Hidden Disabilities; or, You Have No Idea What You Are Seeing by David Perry
On September 8, 2014, Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone featured a guest blog post by Morénike Onaiwu about the importance of the Autism and Race Anthology. Below are excerpts from Morénike’s blog post, … Continue Reading Guest blog post on autism and race by Morénike Onaiwu
The Disability Visibility Project loves tumblrs. We came across so many powerful and thoughtful tumblrs (and lots of funny cat ones too) such as Letters to Thrive, a tumblr of … Continue Reading Guest blog post: Enough Enough by Kristen
There’s still a long way to go when it comes to equal access to public transit. Jessie Lorenz, Executive Director of the Independent Living Resource Center of San Francisco, wrote … Continue Reading Opinion piece by Jessie Lorenz: BART’s fleet of the future leave some behind
Dear The Ellen Show, One of my favorite parts of The Ellen Show is when Ellen busts a move and dances with the audience at the start of each episode. … Continue Reading Dear Ellen Degeneres, From A Wheelchair-Using Viewer
Poetry has a way of speaking truth to power. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 was passed to promote equal opportunity for people with disabilities. To commemorate and … Continue Reading Poetry by Kathryn Carroll
