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…
This collab story authored by Patrica Almeida was first published at Inclusive News and has been translated from Portuguese. The Ministry of Health, through the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP/Fiocruz), is offering an unprecedented specialization course to…
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…
Collab story written by Emma Purcell first published at Crip Life. UPDATE (September 2026): for over a year now, Crip Life has been following the story of Sophie, a 30-year-old creative writer, blogger, and full-time wheelchair user living with cerebral…
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…
As a young boy on a school trip to a museum, Shailesh Kulal remembers feeling left out. “I could hear my classmates whisper, ‘wow, wow’ as we moved through the exhibits,” Kulal says. “But I could not understand what the…
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…
He takes up speed over a long, flat concrete path toward a quarter pipe. At the coping, he hooks his front wheels into a “Rock to Fakie,” shifts his weight, loosens the casters, and drops back down into the ramp….