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What does the DVP do?
An online community dedicated to recording, amplifying, and sharing disability media and culture.
The Disability Visibility Project (DVP) is also a community partnership with StoryCorps, a national oral history organization. Our aim is to create disabled media that is intersectional, multi-modal, and accessible.What does the DVP do?
- Believes that disabled narratives matter and that they belong to us
- Encourages people with disabilities to go to StoryCorps or use the StoryCorps app and record their oral histories with the option of having them archived at the Library of Congress
- Creates disabled media from those oral histories in the form of tweets, podcast episodes, radio stories, audio clips, images, blog posts, etc.
- Publishes original essays, reports, and blog posts about ableism, intersectionality, culture, media, and politics from the perspective of disabled people
- Provides online spaces for people to share and connect
- Hosts and organizes Twitter chats about disability culture and issues
- Moderates a Facebook group, fostering conversation and sharing the latest news of interest to the disability community
- Champions disability culture and history
- Organizes and facilitates events, gives presentations, participates on panels
- Supports and amplifies the work of other disabled people and organizations in the community using social media
- Partners with other activists and organizations in various campaigns such as #CripTheVote and DisabledWriters.com
- Consults with organizations and companies
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