#MeToo, Disability, and the Wrong Man for the Times

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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

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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....