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Hi everyone! Below you will find the wonderful and informative website to Disability Visibility Project by Alice Wong. She also has a podcast that you can find on the website as well. Enjoy!https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com
This is a link to a clip on youtube by AXIS Dance Company that features Alice Sheppard, who is one of the authors in Disability Visibility, among other dancers in a physically integrated dance performance. There is also a link to AXIS Dance's page (the page I linked to has a video with a montage of performances).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaXn6...
https://www.axisdance.org/repertory
Thanks for those resources! :)I'll try my best to make time to go over this website and to listen/watch the videos.
I am very excited about this as both one of the Community Leaders and a (retired) scientist! Here is a link where you can hear the sonification (audio) of astronomical data. You can hear the universe! It was created by Wanda Diaz-Merced, which you can read about in her essay "How a Blind Astronomer Found a Way to Hear the Stars" (pg 168, Disability Visibility)
https://chandra.harvard.edu/blog/node...
The United States has a section of the Smithsonian (the website at least, I don't know how many artifacts are currently on display) dedicated to the history of disability in America. There are a lot of artifacts to look at in the virtual museum and posters you can print out (all of which can be accessed in English or Spanish, the site also claims to work with JAWS). https://everybody.si.edu/
This is not one of the authors in Disability Visibility, but she is a model mentioned in the book in the essay "Common Cyborg" by Jillian Weise. The model/advocate's name Cacsmy Brutus AKA Mama Cax. She is gorgeous and creative. She also has an Instagram page if you do that kind of thing. I am linking her blog here. I'm specifically linking her blog about a White House fashion show she attended (#DesignForAll), but her "Road to Self-Love" is also worth a read.https://mamacax.com/2016/09/21/no-ord...
The US is the most dangerous 'developed nation' in which a woman can give birth. For women of color in the US, mortality rate in pregnancy and childbirth is even higher. You can learn about this and even write to your local policy makers (if you live in the US) by following this link to the March of Dimes.https://www.marchofdimes.org/blanketc...
Feel free to drop links, organizations, or influencers here.