The Disability Visibility Project (DVP)® is an online community dedicated to recording, amplifying, and sharing disability media and culture.

The 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 lives are valuable and our narratives belong to us
• Encourages people with disabilities to go to StoryCorps or use the StoryCorps app and record their oral histories that will be 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

NOTE: The Disability Visibility Project® does not represent or speak for StoryCorps in any way. The DVP did not create the #CripTheVote campaign but is a co-partner in that movement. Also: the usage of the word ‘Visibility’ in the project name is metaphorical. It is not meant to privilege one sensory experience over others.

Disability Visibility Project® is a trademark of Alice Wong. All rights reserved. (c) Alice Wong 2016.