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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
moreThe 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 […]
moreThe 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 […]
moreLilian 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
moreWhy I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future
Ingrid Tischer
<img data-attachment-id="485004" data-permalink="https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2022/05/24/why-i-wont-be-organizing-any-in-person-fundraising-events-for-the-foreseeable-future/cdc-graphic/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cdc-graphic.png?fit=1479%2C1600&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1479,1600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="cdc graphic" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>Informational graphic from the CDC. The text message is “Avoid crowds and poorly ventilated spaces.” The stylized image is of a woman wearing a mask and walking two dogs outside on leashes. She is alone with the dogs.</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cdc-graphic.png?fit=277%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cdc-graphic.png?fit=947%2C1024&ssl=1" class="wp-image-485004 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cdc-graphic.png?resize=947%2C1024&ssl=1" alt="Informational graphic from the
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moreMy 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
moreCare 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
moreSince 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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