Resources on Accessibility and Disability

  • 10 Principles of Disability Justice, by Sins Invalid
    Guiding principles and framework for the disability justice movement. 

  • Alt-text Selfies, produced by Bojana Coklyat, Finnegan Shannon, and Olivia Dreisinger.
    “This project takes a well-known practice—the selfie—and approaches it through a disability lens.”

  • Crossing the Border: How Disability Civil Rights Protections Can Include Disabled Asylum-Seekers, by Trinh Q. Truong, Emily DiMatteo, and Mia Ives-Rublee
    “This report provides an overview of the impacts of the U.S. asylum system on disabled children and adults; explores legal issues at the intersection of immigration and disability; and offers recommendations for applying existing disability civil rights protections, such as the ADA, to assist disabled asylum-seekers through the process of gaining permanent legal status.”

  • Disability and Immigrant Justice Coalition from Pangea Legal
    “The DIJC works with the community to identify and propose systemic changes that address the unique needs of immigrants with disabilities, including but not limited to: making disability, healthcare resources and spaces more responsive and accessible to immigrants with disabilities and ending the detention, solitary confinement, and institutionalization of immigrants with disabilities.” 

  • Disability and LGBTQA+ Resource Guide, by LGBTQ Affairs, University of Arizona 

    A robust resource guide at the intersection of disability and LGBTQA+ experiences.

  • Disability Inclusion Fund 
    “The Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) at Borealis supports U.S. groups run by and for people with disabilities leading transformational change. Its principles and practices draw from the disability justice movement and aim to build power and a society that is free of ableism and other discriminatory barriers. The DIF is committed to disability justice movement-aligned funding including a participatory grantmaking process that involves members of the disability community to guide funding decisions.”

  • Disability Poetics: Poetry of Liberation, edited by Jennifer Bartlett and Sheila Black 
    A collection of poems and essays by disabled writers. 

  • Disability Rights California
    “Disability Rights California (DRC) defends, advances, and strengthens the rights and opportunities of people with disabilities.”

  • Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
    “Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), founded in 1979, is a leading national civil rights law and policy center directed by individuals with disabilities and parents who have children with disabilities.”

  • Disability Visibility Project
    “The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.”

  • Disabled and d/Deaf Poets Anthology, curated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    An online poetry anthology gathering the writings of disabled and Deaf poets.

  • Disabled Immigrants, with Conchita Hernandez Legorreta (Disability Visibility Project)
    A podcast episode on the intersections between immigration and disability, from the lived experiences of Conchita Hernandez Legorreta. 

  • Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire, by Qudsiya Naqui, Disability Visibility Project
    An article exploring the intersections of immigration, disability and law. 

  • Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability, by Jay Timothy Dolmage
    “In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This premise forms the crux of Jay Timothy Dolmage’s new book Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability, a compelling examination of the spaces, technologies, and discourses of immigration restriction during the peak period of North American immigration in the early twentieth century.”

  • Down to the Struts Podcast
    A podcast about disability, design, and intersectionality, where we uncover the building blocks for a more accessible, inclusive, and equitable world for all disabled people. Hosted by Qudsiya Naqui.

  • Film Accessibility Vendor Database, by the Film Event Accessibility Working Group (FEAW)
    “An expanding list of great film access vendors to connect with across the US.”

  • Film Event Accessibility Scorecard Impact Report 2023, by Filmmakers with Disabilities (FWD-Doc), the Film Event Accessibility Working Group (FEAW), and the Film Festival Alliance (FFA) 
    “The Film Event Accessibility Scorecard (the Scorecard): a survey consisting of 70 questions ranging from demographics, event attendance experience, comments, and recommendations. [...] For many years, disabled patrons, filmmakers, press, and other attendees have recounted anecdotes of overwhelming inaccessibility at film events and festivals. The Scorecard was created to address the urgent need for data on accessibility in film festivals and events.” 

  • Film Exhibition Accessibility for Patrons, by the the Film Event Accessibility Working Group (FEAW)
    “The following Checklist is intended to help organizations identify areas for growth in film event accessibility. Implementing access is a process, this can be used as a tool for creating an accessibility strategic plan that evolves with the organization and its audience. Terminology and Resource Addendums are included to provide depth and increased context.”

  • Interpreter and Language Justice Resources
    A growing resource list of language justice projects and workers, put together by the unseen team.

  • Invisible Disability Project 
    “Invisible Disability Project (IDP) is a social/cultural movement and an educational media project that consciously disrupts “invisibility” imposed upon unseen disabilities at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. [IDP is] devoted to building human connections and self-advocacy by dismantling shame and stigma. IDP effects change through public conversations and interactive online content with the goal of creating an informed, mutually supportive community.”

  • Language Justice Groups Directory - Collectivizing Language Justice
    A language justice directory for people and organizations to seek out translation, interpretation, consulting, and other services and programs related to language justice, and for language workers wanting to learn about other groups and projects doing language justice work. 

  • Law, Policy, and Disabled Immigrants, by Down to the Struts Podcast with Katherine Pérez and Roxana Moussavian
    A podcast episode on the intersections of law, policy, disability, and immigration, “from the perspective of disability law and immigration law.”

  • LGBTQ+ and Disability: An Introduction and Resource Guide, by Disability Resources

    “Gain invaluable insights and access resources to support and empower LGBTQ+ individuals with disabilities, their allies, and professionals in related fields.”

  • National Federation of the Blind 
    “The National Federation of the Blind is the oldest and largest nationwide organization of blind Americans. Founded in 1940 and currently headquartered in Baltimore, the NFB consists of affiliates, chapters, and divisions in all fifty states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico.”

  • Refugees and Migrants with Disabilities, by Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations 
    Article with analyses and data on the status of refugees and migrants with disabilities.

  • Reid My Mind Radio
    A podcast featuring compelling people impacted by all degrees of blindness and disability. Produced and hosted by Thomas Reid.

  • Sins Invalid
    “​​Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.”

  • Standing on our own two feet: disability justice as a frame for reimagining our ableist immigration system, by Qudsiya Naqui
    An article that argues that “dismantling ableism must be a core imperative of the movement for immigration abolition, and that the principles of disability justice can serve as a tool for identifying the radical changes necessary to achieve this transformation.”

  • The National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities
    “The National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (CNLD) is a volunteer organization comprised of Disabled Latinx leaders and allies from across the nation.”

  • Twitter Chat on Disability and Immigration, by #CripTheVote 
    “The co-partners of #CripTheVote, Andrew Pulrang, Gregg Beratan, and Alice Wong hosted a Twitter chat on 9/19/21 with Sachin Pavithran, Executive Director of the US Access Board, Conchita Hernandez Legorreta, a disability rights advocate and Doctoral student at George Washington University, and Qudsiya Naqui, a blind attorney and host of the podcast Down to the Struts.”

  • Zoeglossia
    “Zoeglossia is a new literary organization seeking to pioneer a new, inclusive space for poets with disabilities.”