The disability community has long been excluded from Hollywood and the Academy’s president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, reinforced that when she mentioned every marginalized community in the Academy’s diversity efforts… but the disability community.
For many of us privilege and oppression are not mutually exclusive. I face multiple intersections of oppression personally. I am oppressed for being disabled both with physical and invisible disabilities. I am oppressed for being transgender. I face discrimination for being a quip (a queer crip). I grew up in…
Lack of access to essential services can affect the disability community in a plethora of ways. In some cases, that includes lack of access to go see Star Wars.
Inspiration porn is out of control. Disabled people are being violated daily by those without disabilities. Our right to consent over our bodies and our wishes
Disabled people are not special snowflakes that need you to say hi to them to make yourself feel better. We are human beings with complex emotions just like everyone else. So if you wouldn’t say hi to a non-disabled person, don’t bother saying hi to me.
For people who have been bullied as children, especially in school, adding people you went to school with on social media can often be a challenging process.
Disabled people have long been called objects of inspiration. We need to change the dialogue to show that while some people can be inspiring, it is not because they get out of bed each day.
I recently saw an article from a few years ago re-emerge in my Facebook feed. I instantly knew I was not going to like the article, which I apparently (luckily) missed when it was first published. The article was written on a website called Rolling Without Limits, and the site…
It is the first day of celebrating access equality, and one of the ways to do that is through sharing our stories facing access barriers. By using the Facebook page located here https://www.facebook.com/AccessEquality, and using the Twitter hashtag #AccessEquality, I hope to create a narrative that makes people understand the…
Join us on September 26, as we celebrate access equality for everyone regardless of disability.
