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The Disability Visibility Project is an ongoing effort. The podcast, launched in 2017, includes over 80 episodes, each with an open and honest reflection of the experiences of the disability community. [5] Topics range from video games, climate change, poetry, immigration, intersectionality, design, violence, mental health, to entrepreneurship ...
The Disability Visibility Project was created before the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. [6] As of 2018, the project had collected approximately 140 oral histories. [7] Wong works the Disabled Writers project, which is funded by a grant from Wong and The Disability Project. [8]
1940s - Kalamazoo, Michigan installed curb cuts in the 1940s as a pilot project to aid employment of veterans with disabilities. [32] 1940 – The National Federation of the Blind was formed in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, by Jacobus Broek and others. They advocated for white cane laws, input by blind people for programs for blind clients and ...
This year is the 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (or ADA), a comprehensive civil rights law for people with disabilities. Meet the Black woman advocating for greater ...
Alice Wong – founded the Disability Visibility Project; Grace Woodhead – care in the community in 1890 in the UK; Patrisha Wright – known as "the General" for her work in coordinating the campaign to enact the Americans with Disabilities Act
A nationwide PSA has launched on Tuesday that urges Hollywood to increase the number of people with disabilities both behind and in front of the camera. The campaign, formally known as Disability ...
Keah Brown (born September 19, 1991) [1] [2] is an American disability rights activist, author, journalist, and writer. She is also known as the creator of the hashtag #DisabledAndCute, which first went viral in February 2017 and caught the attention of such celebrities as Sophia Bush and Brie Larson. [3]
The pair successfully established the Stephen J. Wampler Foundation in 2004 and opened Camp Wamp, a summer camp for children with physical disabilities. The first summer the camp hosted 24 ...