March 7, 2019
DREDF's No More Stares, a groundbreaking guide for disabled girls and women, now Available on the Internet in Celebration of International Women's Day 37 Years After its Historic Release.
Originally published by Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) in 1982, No More Stares is now available on DREDF's website for the first time in celebration of International Women's Day!
Category: Disability Rights
#MeToo, Disability, and the Wrong Man for the Times
For centuries, women who have stepped forward to reveal their experience of sexual assault have been routinely told they are lying or mistaken. More recently, the #MeToo movement has upended that flat assertion, as women around the world have provided tens of thousands of eyewitness accounts exposing the pain of volition taken away, the self-talk that feeds shame, the enduring effects of trauma, and especially, the fear of not being believed. Of being called a liar or incompetent.
#FundDisAdvocacy Twitter Chat, Disability Advocacy and Philanthropy
Join the Twitter chat with DREDF Development Director and A Crip in Philanthropy blogger Ingrid Tischer and Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project on Friday, October 12, 2018, 4 pm Pacific: #FundDisAdvocacy.
Accessibility Comes to Yekaterinburg
Over the last decade, I’ve had opportunities to meet disabled people around the world and hear about their work to make the places where they live more accessible to and inclusive of people with disabilities....