Critical Disability Studies

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 people in podcasting and radio. Disability Visibility is a production of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.

We’re Dawn (living in DC) and Daana (living in WI) — two Black women with Multiple Sclerosis, sharing our musings on life, MS, and everything in between.Myelin and Melanin?! Myelin is the protective shield that covers nerves in the central nervous system. When it’s damaged it forms scar tissue or sclerosis, which gives MS its name. Melanin is the protective shield that brings us our magic.

Contra* is a podcast about disability, design justice, and the lifeworld.

A podcast about disability and design, where we uncover the building blocks for a more inclusive world. Hosted by Qudsiya Naqui.

A podcast that centers and celebrates the lived experiences of disabled people of color.

Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and community organizer for disability justice and transformative justice. Mia helped to create and forward the disability justice framework and has coined language and concepts such as “access intimacy,” “magnificence,” “politically and descriptively disabled” and “forced intimacy.” Her blog, Leaving Evidence, is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about disability, access, ableism, and disability justice.

Imani Barbarin is a disability representation and inclusion advocate. She is a public speaker, writer, and blogger who explores issues relating to the intersection of race, disability, and gender. She is well known for her social media presence, especially creating the hashtags #ThingsDisabledPeopleKnow and #AbledsAreWeird.

Lydia X. Z. Brown is a self-identified “writer, dreamer, organizer, builder, advocate, attorney, activist, strategist, educator, trainer, consultant, and speaker” who writes about radical disability justice and disability policy. This blog contains resources, definitions, and insights on ableism, autism, and issues relating to disability and disability justice.

Karin Hitselberger is a well-known disability advocate, activist, and award-winning blogger. She speaks and writes on issues relating to disability, body image, pop culture, and everyday life. It is her passion to integrate intersectional activism into all forms of work and life, as she believes advocacy and activism are a lifestyle, not a single action.