Disability Visibility

This is life from a disabled lens. Disability Visibility is a podcast hosted by San Francisco night owl Alice Wong featuring conversations on politics, culture, and media with disabled people. If you're interested in disability rights, social justice, and intersectionality, this show is for you. It's time to hear more disabled voices in radio. Disability Visibility is a production of the Disability Visibility Project®, an online community dedicated to recording, amplifying, and sharing disability media and culture. Text transcripts and links for each episode are available at: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/podcast/ Twitter: @DisVisibility

Disability Visibility is a news podcast hosted by Alice Wong: Disability Activist, Media Maker, Consultant, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 81. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Alice Wong: Disability Activist, Media Maker, Consultant hosts Disability Visibility, a news show with 25 episodes published.

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  Episode #100

  Ep 100: Podcasting

  Apr 3, 202150 minS1

  <p> </p> <p>Today’s subject is this podcast because it’s episode 100!! Whether this is the first time you’re listening or if you’re a longtime listener, this podcast is co-audio produced by three people and myself: Sarika Mehta, Geraldine Ah-Sue, and Cheryl Green. I’m proud to work with all three of them since the podcast started in 2017. You’ll hear us talk about the lack of disabled voices in radio or podcasts, our collaborative process, and the future of the podcast. And this is a supersized episode! After the conversation, you’ll hear some feedback from podcast listene...

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  Episode #99

  Ep 99: Online Activism

  Mar 21, 202132 minS1

  <p> </p> <p>Today I’m in conversation with my friends Andrew Pulrang and Gregg Beratan. The three of us are co-partners in #CripTheVote, an online movement encouraging the political participation of disabled people that we started in 2016. You’ll hear us talk about the origins of #CripTheVote, the differences between the 2016 and 2020 election on disability policies and engagement, and looking ahead with the Biden/Harris administration. Please note our conversation took place in December 2020, a few weeks after the Presidential election. </p> <h3>Transcript</h3> <p>[Google doc]     [PDF]</p> <h3>Related Links</h3> <p>#CripTheVote blog</p> <p>Recap from...

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  Episode #98

  Ep 98: Disabled Students

  Mar 7, 202140 minS1

  <p> </p> <p>Today I’m in conversation with Alena Morales, who will graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Sciences with a minor in Disability Studies at UC Berkeley in Spring 2021. Alena is a queer disabled advocate of color and the former Chair and Co-Founder of the Disabled Students Commission, and through loving interdependence and collective labor with her fellow crips, she co-created one of the few Disability Cultural Centers in the country at UC Berkeley. You’ll hear Alena talk about developing her disability identity, finding community, and getting involved in community organizing at school. She’ll also talk...

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  Episode #97

  Ep 97: Disabled Refugees

  Feb 21, 202140 minS1

  <p> </p> <p>Today I’m in conversation with Mustafa Rfat. Mustafa is a graduate student in the Public Administration Program at West Virginia University. He’s also a trainee at Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) at the university. Mustafa came to the U.S. as a refugee from Iraq in 2011. You’ll hear Mustafa talk about his experience as a refugee and his adjustment to life in the United States. Mustafa will also describe the unique challenges and needs of refugees with disabilities.</p> Photo of three people gathered around a white grand piano. On the left sitting on the...

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  Episode #96

  Ep 96: Art and Technology

  Feb 7, 202146 minS1

  <p> </p> <p>Today’s episode is about art and technology featuring a conversation with Lindsey D. Felt and Vanessa Chang. Lindsey and Vanessa curated Recoding CripTech, a multidisciplinary art exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco in early 2020. You’ll learn about how their collaboration and friendship started, what it was like curating this exhibit, some of the disabled artists that were part of the exhibit, and why CripTech, disability culture, and accessibility is more important than ever in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. </p> <h3>Transcript</h3> <p>[Google doc]     [PDF]</p> <h3>Related Links</h3> <p>M Eifler...

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