TGDN Network’s Reporter Rikki Poynter took part in this year’s Seattle Deaf Film Festival. In a series of videos and articles, she’ll review several films and recently, she shared what the three-day film festival was like. In this review, Rikki…
Lois Auta is a disability rights activist from Nigeria, Africa, who has fought for disabled women and girls since she was a teenager. Today, she is one of the most renowned disabled women in her country. Since 2019, she has…
Note: The only actual names used in this article are of panelists at the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) in Washington, DC in July. Avirmed is a pseudonym. Avirmed, a Deaf man from Mongolia, faced violence in his home…
July is Disability Pride Month, a time when disabled people celebrate disability rights and, as the name suggests, are proud of their identity as a disabled person. I haven’t always been a proud disabled person. For me, “pride” meant ultimately…
Anna Cofone is a British hairstylist well known for styling the likes of Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey. In 2019, she launched the Hair & Care Project, which offers workshops to blind and low vision women and girls. Through…
“Maggie’s Big Break” follows 11-year-old Maggie Pearson, who wants to become an actor and has a stutter. When Maggie and her best friend Francesca are accepted into Danbury’s, a school for acting and the arts, Maggie must navigate friendship, her…
TW: Violence and murder of disabled people. “Disposable Humanity” is a feature documentary by film director Cameron Mitchell tracing the history of “Aktion T4,” a Nazi program that murdered over 200,000 people between 1939 and 1945. Ableism Rooted in German…
In the shades of the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, which dominates the sky, with its massive snow-capped dome rising out of the flat grassland of the Savannah, a little girl sat outside her family’s home, picking up a stick and…
For Embla Guðrúnar Ágústsdóttir, a queer, disabled scholar/activist in Iceland, performance art has been a revelation of making connections. Moving away from lectures and speeches, she says, audiences filled with nondisabled people come away from the performance with an understanding that…
Since I was a child, pop culture has been an integral part of my life and identity. My mother shared her passion through her record collection, and she took me to my first movie at three and to my first…