Photos of Rosie Jones, a white woman with pig-tailed hair, hooped earrings, a white t-shirt and flower-covered overalls smiles with her hands in her pockets. Aaron Rose Phillip, a Black woman with a gray t-shirt dress with a Pride rainbow heart, black and white sneakers and short black hair sits in her wheelchair. Lydia X.Z. Brown an Asian person with a purple t-shirt reading ‘Disabled & Proud” and a flannel shirt on top smiles with their hands on their hips. A Pride-themed gradient is behind them.

12 Disabled LGBTQIA+ Activists & Advocates Who You Need to Know

By Charlotte Stasio There is a great deal of intersectionality between being LGBTQIA+ and disabled, with experiences like hiding an important part of your identity for your safety, discrimination, and social isolation often shared across these identities. In addition, cultural,…
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A TSA agent escorts a passenger in a wheelchair into the checkpoint area in an airport.

Airline Accessibility for Passengers with Disabilities

By Sarah Kim People with disabilities often experience difficulties getting appropriate accessibility accommodations on airplanes and airports with wheelchairs and other assistive technologies often geting lost or damaged. As pandemic-related travel protections are being lifted coupled with the fact that…
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Neema Namadamu, a Black woman wearing a beige patterned traditional Congolese headwrap and dress

What’s Up WID: Disabled Women’s Rights in the Congo Transcripts

Ashley Inkumsah: What’s Up WID premiered a special edition episode of our podcast available exclusively on our YouTube channel, where Deaf students from Gallaudet University discuss their experiences with disasters in their home countries of Japan and Nigeria. Check out…
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