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Access Living Receives $8 Million Gift from Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott

By Emma Olson / 2022-11-03
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Access Living Receives $8 Million Gift from Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott Funds Will Support Efforts to End Poverty for Disabled People and Expand

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Young Gifted Black & Disabled: Haben Girma Guides Us Through Self Description

By T.Reid / 2022-10-26
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The practice of providing self-description was becoming “controversial” even before the alt right types went ballistic on Vice President Harris this summer. During a meeting with leaders in the disability community, the VP practiced a form of access that includes making everyone aware of the visual information that those who are Blind or have low […]

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Young Gifted Black & Disabled: Haben Girma Guides Us Through Self Description

By T.Reid / 2022-10-26
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The practice of providing self-description was becoming “controversial” even before the alt right types went ballistic on Vice President Harris this summer. During a meeting with leaders in the disability community, the VP practiced a form of access that includes making everyone aware of the visual information that those who are Blind or have low […]

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Making Voting Accessible Means Millions More Votes

By AAPD / 2022-09-15
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Lilian Aluri, REV UP Voting Campaign Coordinator

This blog was originally posted by US Vote Foundation on their blog and reposted with permission as part of a series of blogs. The US Vote Foundation

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

By Alice Wong / 2022-05-24
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Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future

 

Ingrid Tischer

 

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Protected: Action Alert: Ask Your Senators to Confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson!

By AAPD / 2022-04-04
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To Me, Eugenics Proves That Society Is Inaccessible

By Sherry Toh / 2022-03-16
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How would you expect someone with a disability to react upon reading an account of a nondisabled man essentially telling a disabled woman she shouldn’t

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My Villain Origin Story: Break-up with My Disability Constituency Organization

By Alice Wong / 2022-03-14
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My Villain Origin Story: Break-up with My Disability Constituency Organization

 

Rebecca Cokley

 

Content notes: cures, eugenics

 

My name is Rebecca Cokley. My parents met in 1970 at a little people convention. My mom was a redhead flower child, from the San Francisco suburbs where she grew up as 1 of 9 kids in an Irish Catholic family. My dad was the son of a federal judge in Selma, Alabama. He had all

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Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence

By Alice Wong / 2022-02-08
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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 Chicago, Illinois. Our conversation was recorded and edited for length and clarity in January 2022. The lack of awareness and media representation of formalized in-home care during and before the pandemic led us to create this project. We share it in the context of a

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High-Risk Pandemic Stories: A Syllabus

By Alice Wong / 2022-01-09
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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 folks have been oracles well before this global public health disaster and continue to this day as institutions and leaders treat marginalized communities as disposable. 

With the Disability Visibility Project I feel a keen urgency to publish as many pieces about the pandemic because our

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