#blindcommunity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blindcommunity, aggregated by home.social.
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When Speaking Up Feels Dangerous: We Need Community More Than Ever | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/when-speaking-up-feels-dangerous/Advocates have stopped asking whether their organizations move fast enough and started asking whether it is safe to speak up at all. The perceived cost of advocacy is rising. His answer is community, not bravado: courage should not require recklessness. Free livestreamed launch September 1.
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When Speaking Up Feels Dangerous: We Need Community More Than Ever | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/when-speaking-up-feels-dangerous/Advocates have stopped asking whether their organizations move fast enough and started asking whether it is safe to speak up at all. The perceived cost of advocacy is rising. His answer is community, not bravado: courage should not require recklessness. Free livestreamed launch September 1.
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When Speaking Up Feels Dangerous: We Need Community More Than Ever | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/when-speaking-up-feels-dangerous/Advocates have stopped asking whether their organizations move fast enough and started asking whether it is safe to speak up at all. The perceived cost of advocacy is rising. His answer is community, not bravado: courage should not require recklessness. Free livestreamed launch September 1.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeremy Grandstaff, Executive Director, The Inspiration Foundation | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-11-2026/Jeremy Grandstaff, six months into leading the Inspiration Foundation, on grants, the emerging Inspiration Seal, and a goal of raising the disability employment rate by 10% in five years - and why he walks to the podium with his cane, not escorted.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeremy Grandstaff, Executive Director, The Inspiration Foundation | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-11-2026/Jeremy Grandstaff, six months into leading the Inspiration Foundation, on grants, the emerging Inspiration Seal, and a goal of raising the disability employment rate by 10% in five years - and why he walks to the podium with his cane, not escorted.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeremy Grandstaff, Executive Director, The Inspiration Foundation | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-11-2026/Jeremy Grandstaff, six months into leading the Inspiration Foundation, on grants, the emerging Inspiration Seal, and a goal of raising the disability employment rate by 10% in five years - and why he walks to the podium with his cane, not escorted.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mindy Kolin, Director of Development & Industry Partnerships at Teach Access, and Kate Sonka, Executive Director
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-06-2026/Kate Sonka and Mindy Kolin on why Teach Access trains educators, not students: one faculty member reaches 50 to 100 students a semester. Its 2020 goal of 1 million students by 2030 passed 1.5 million in 2025 — and Teach Access Europe is next.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mindy Kolin, Director of Development & Industry Partnerships at Teach Access, and Kate Sonka, Executive Director
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-06-2026/Kate Sonka and Mindy Kolin on why Teach Access trains educators, not students: one faculty member reaches 50 to 100 students a semester. Its 2020 goal of 1 million students by 2030 passed 1.5 million in 2025 — and Teach Access Europe is next.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mindy Kolin, Director of Development & Industry Partnerships at Teach Access, and Kate Sonka, Executive Director
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-06-2026/Kate Sonka and Mindy Kolin on why Teach Access trains educators, not students: one faculty member reaches 50 to 100 students a semester. Its 2020 goal of 1 million students by 2030 passed 1.5 million in 2025 — and Teach Access Europe is next.
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RESIST! We Have Inherited a Legacy. Now It Is Our Turn. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/resist-we-have-inherited-a-legacy/Free livestreamed Coalition launch, Tues Sept 1, 11am PT / 2pm ET. Adams traces the Black Panthers’ Community Survival Programs to the 1977 Section 504 sit-in that Brad Lomax helped them feed for 26 days. Resistance isn’t only about what we stand against, it is about what we build together.
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RESIST! We Have Inherited a Legacy. Now It Is Our Turn. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/resist-we-have-inherited-a-legacy/Free livestreamed Coalition launch, Tues Sept 1, 11am PT / 2pm ET. Adams traces the Black Panthers’ Community Survival Programs to the 1977 Section 504 sit-in that Brad Lomax helped them feed for 26 days. Resistance isn’t only about what we stand against, it is about what we build together.
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RESIST! We Have Inherited a Legacy. Now It Is Our Turn. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/resist-we-have-inherited-a-legacy/Free livestreamed Coalition launch, Tues Sept 1, 11am PT / 2pm ET. Adams traces the Black Panthers’ Community Survival Programs to the 1977 Section 504 sit-in that Brad Lomax helped them feed for 26 days. Resistance isn’t only about what we stand against, it is about what we build together.
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National Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion Launches September 1 | EINPresswire.com | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/935867745/national-coalition-for-sustainable-diversity-and-inclusion-launches-september-1A national coalition for inclusion practitioners launches Tuesday, September 1 in a free LinkedIn Live event, 11am PT / 2pm ET. Founding Membership opens the same day.
"The answer is not retreat. The answer is community," said Kirk Adams.
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National Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion Launches September 1 | EINPresswire.com | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/935867745/national-coalition-for-sustainable-diversity-and-inclusion-launches-september-1A national coalition for inclusion practitioners launches Tuesday, September 1 in a free LinkedIn Live event, 11am PT / 2pm ET. Founding Membership opens the same day.
"The answer is not retreat. The answer is community," said Kirk Adams.
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National Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion Launches September 1 | EINPresswire.com | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/935867745/national-coalition-for-sustainable-diversity-and-inclusion-launches-september-1A national coalition for inclusion practitioners launches Tuesday, September 1 in a free LinkedIn Live event, 11am PT / 2pm ET. Founding Membership opens the same day.
"The answer is not retreat. The answer is community," said Kirk Adams.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #101: Interview with Voldi Gailans, Chairman of the Braille Chess Association | Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-29-2026/Voldi learned the moves on a pegged tactile board with no strategy to guide him, found coaching only late in life, and now wants to spare beginners those lost years. Chess, he says, is for anyone.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #101: Interview with Voldi Gailans, Chairman of the Braille Chess Association | Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-29-2026/Voldi learned the moves on a pegged tactile board with no strategy to guide him, found coaching only late in life, and now wants to spare beginners those lost years. Chess, he says, is for anyone.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #101: Interview with Voldi Gailans, Chairman of the Braille Chess Association | Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-29-2026/Voldi learned the moves on a pegged tactile board with no strategy to guide him, found coaching only late in life, and now wants to spare beginners those lost years. Chess, he says, is for anyone.
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Remarkable World Commentary Episode #108: Interview with Peggy Chong, The Blind History Lady | Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-08-25-2026/Peggy Chong on how a 1979 job clearing files at a closing Minnesota home for the blind became a lifetime recovering the lives of blind Americans, from a blind congressman to a milkman turned piano tuner.
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Remarkable World Commentary Episode #108: Interview with Peggy Chong, The Blind History Lady | Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-08-25-2026/Peggy Chong on how a 1979 job clearing files at a closing Minnesota home for the blind became a lifetime recovering the lives of blind Americans, from a blind congressman to a milkman turned piano tuner.
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Remarkable World Commentary Episode #108: Interview with Peggy Chong, The Blind History Lady | Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-08-25-2026/Peggy Chong on how a 1979 job clearing files at a closing Minnesota home for the blind became a lifetime recovering the lives of blind Americans, from a blind congressman to a milkman turned piano tuner.
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Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/braille-is-beautiful-braille-is-literacy/Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.
#Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity
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Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/braille-is-beautiful-braille-is-literacy/Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.
#Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity
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Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/braille-is-beautiful-braille-is-literacy/Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.
#Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity
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Dr. Kirk Adams Book 'The Disability Dividend' Makes Business Case for Inclusion | EINPresswire.com | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/935860424/dr-kirk-adams-book-the-disability-dividend-makes-business-case-for-inclusionOnly 35% of people with significant disabilities are in the workforce, vs 75% of non-disabled adults. Adams, blind since age five and former CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind, cites Accenture: disability-inclusive companies saw 28% higher revenue.
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Dr. Kirk Adams Book 'The Disability Dividend' Makes Business Case for Inclusion | EINPresswire.com | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/935860424/dr-kirk-adams-book-the-disability-dividend-makes-business-case-for-inclusionOnly 35% of people with significant disabilities are in the workforce, vs 75% of non-disabled adults. Adams, blind since age five and former CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind, cites Accenture: disability-inclusive companies saw 28% higher revenue.
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Dr. Kirk Adams Book 'The Disability Dividend' Makes Business Case for Inclusion | EINPresswire.com | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/935860424/dr-kirk-adams-book-the-disability-dividend-makes-business-case-for-inclusionOnly 35% of people with significant disabilities are in the workforce, vs 75% of non-disabled adults. Adams, blind since age five and former CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind, cites Accenture: disability-inclusive companies saw 28% higher revenue.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #102: Interview with Aaron Di Blasi, Sr. PMP, Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd., Regarding Her Ongoing Attempt To Take The Apex Program’s CompTIA Network+ Exam at a Pearson Vue Testing Center As A Blind Woman in Canada | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-08-07-2026/Aaron Di Blasi grills Donna on her two-year fight to sit the CompTIA Network+ exam as a blind candidate.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #102: Interview with Aaron Di Blasi, Sr. PMP, Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd., Regarding Her Ongoing Attempt To Take The Apex Program’s CompTIA Network+ Exam at a Pearson Vue Testing Center As A Blind Woman in Canada | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-08-07-2026/Aaron Di Blasi grills Donna on her two-year fight to sit the CompTIA Network+ exam as a blind candidate.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #102: Interview with Aaron Di Blasi, Sr. PMP, Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd., Regarding Her Ongoing Attempt To Take The Apex Program’s CompTIA Network+ Exam at a Pearson Vue Testing Center As A Blind Woman in Canada | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-08-07-2026/Aaron Di Blasi grills Donna on her two-year fight to sit the CompTIA Network+ exam as a blind candidate.