Approximately 700 million women and girls across the globe live with a disability. Disabled women make up three quarters of all people with disabilities in low or middle income countries. While all women no matter their location face multilayered discrimination…
Content warning: Mental illness, language deprivation, and suicide. TGDN Network reporter Rikki Poynter has participated in this year’s Seattle Deaf Film Festival, covering the event through a series of videos and articles. In this review, she looks closely at Siren:…
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…
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…
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…
Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame is a disability advocate and activist from Ghana. She started losing her sight at the age of ten. Since 1975, she has dedicated her life to advancing disability inclusion worldwide and supporting the human rights of both…
For the first time, I finally made it to the Seattle Deaf Film Festival—an event I’d hoped to attend for years. What is the Seattle Deaf Film Festival? The Seattle Deaf Film Festival (SDFF) is a biennial event in Seattle,…
Episode 2 of TGDN Network’s video podcast features Alexa and Jacqueline, the founders of Dateability, a new dating app for people with and without disabilities. Dating with a disability comes with a set of questions most apps never consider, from…
Israeli Sign Language, ISL, has been declared an official language in Israel. This makes them the 82nd country to recognize sign language as an official language. A bill proposed by the Knesset plenum was unanimously approved with 34 votes and…