#disabilityvisibility — Public Fediverse posts

"In Trumpian times, we need joyful narratives around disability more than ever"

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/07/01/in-trumpian-times-we-need-joyful-narratives-around-disability-more-than-ever/

Frances Ryan talks about her new book, Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls' Guide to Life.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/who-wants-normal-the-disabled-girls-guide-to-life-frances-ryan/22701411

"A groundbreaking memoir about what it means to be a disabled woman in Britain today from the acclaimed journalist and author"

#Books #Bookstodon #Disability #DisabilityPride #DisabilityVisibility

Manchmal braucht der eigene Körper einfach nur die Chance, endlich sein zu dürfen. ✨
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#TransIsBeautiful #DisabledAndProud #DisabilityPride #Disability #Behinderung #Queer #Trans #TransPride #BodyAutonomy #QueerAndDisabled #DisabilityVisibility #TransHealthcare #HRTworks #TraumaHealing #TransJoy #DisabledJoy #BodyPositivity #TransAktivismus #IntersectionalFeminism #DisabilityJustice #StigmaKills #MentalHealthHealing #QueerActivism #LoveYourself #HealingJourney

From the Disability Visibility Project:

"Year in Review: 2024 " from Alice Wong

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/12/27/year-in-review-2024/

"In July 10 years ago I founded the Disability Visibility Project. I still have trouble believing all that I’ve done and how much has changed …"

#Disability #DisabilityVisibility

From Alice Wong:

"Mask Bans Insult Disabled People, Endanger Our Health, and Threaten Our Ability to Protest"

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/mask-bans-disabled-people-protest

#Disability #Disabled #ChronicIllness #MaskBan #Masks #DisabilityVisibility

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project.

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#books
#nonfiction
#memoir
#AliceWong
#DisabilityVisibility

"Return of the Ugly Laws: In the Name of ‘Modernization,’ the Newsom Administration Wants to Disappear Unhoused and Disabled People from the Streets, Rebuild the Asylums"

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/10/15/return-of-the-ugly-laws-in-the-name-of-modernization-the-newsom-administration-wants-to-disappear-unhoused-and-disabled-people-from-the-streets-rebuild-the-asylums/

#Disability #USPol #California #CAREact #DisabilityVisibility

"One of Us: Tod Browning’s Freaks, Disability Culture, and the Criterion for Inclusion"

Guest blog by Angelo Muredda

Content warning: usage of a slur for little people

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/10/08/one-of-us-tod-brownings-freaks-disability-culture-and-the-criterion-for-inclusion/

#Disability #Representation #Film #DisabilityVisibility

Alice Wong, @SFDirewolf on Twitter and founder/director of the Disability Visibility Project, needs help. Systems that should work for all of us are broken, hence the need. Can you give? I did.
I've learned so much from her writing and others she lifts up. https://gofund.me/44fcbd8e #disability #DisabilityJustice #Medicaid #help #giving #DisabilityVisibility #DisVisibility #CripJustice

Alice Wong is now a columnist for Teen Vogue! 😃

From her post on twitter:

"My first piece is about the Medicaid unwinding process starting 4/1 when states will resume annual redetermination processes for all enrollees which could result in millions losing their coverage"

Headline: The “Unwinding” of Medicaid Coverage Will Be Difficult for Disabled Americans, Leave More People Uninsured

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/medicaid-coverage-covid

#Disability #DisabilityVisibility #Disabled #Medicaid #SaveMedicaid #CripTheVote

"Wong is best known for her activism and as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project. Her work focuses on amplifying the voices of disabled people and disability culture, and dismantling systemic ableism in the United States."

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/

#Disability #DisabilityVisibility #Ableism