Break The Story Volume IV: Disability Visibility

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Break The Story Volume IV: Disability Visibility is a snapshot of current disability culture. Throughout this issue, disability is framed as a generative cultural force, a source of innovation, transformation, creativity, and joy. Each piece is either written by or features a BIPOC disabled or d/Deaf leader and covers some of the most exciting and groundbreaking work by disabled people in fashion, art, performance, entertainment, and activism.

Alice Wong
September 9, 2020
3 minute read

Guest Editor Alice Wong introduces Disability Visibility.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
September 9, 2020
6 minute read

These disability creators reimagined live performance. Theater may never be the same.

Maysoon Zayid
September 9, 2020
6 minute read

Actress and Comedian Maysoon Zayid on her journey as a Disabled performer.

Andraea LaVant in conversation with Alice Wong
September 9, 2020
5 minute read

How the impact campaign for the hit documentary Crip Camp was reimagined in a pandemic.

Sara Nović
September 9, 2020
8 minute read

An interview with Caption Innovator Storm Smith and YouTube Star Rikki Poynter on the future of captions.

Jen White-Johnson in conversation with Alice Wong
September 9, 2020
5 minute read

Inspired by her neurodivergent son, Black disabled artist, photographer, educator, and designer, Jen White-Johnson injects Disability Rights into the 2020 BLM movement.

September 9, 2020
4 minute read

A guide to innovation in adaptive fashion.

Claudia Alick
September 9, 2020
3 minute read

Collaborating with the Disabled community can change grantmaking.

Alice Wong
September 9, 2020

3 minute read

Check out these documentaries, films, books, and essays.

Break the Story Volume IV:
Disability Visibility

Guest Editor: Alice Wong

Editor: Tracy Van Slyke

Production Manager: Daria Segalini
Visual Design: In-House International
Website Implementer: Deanna Zandt
Contributors: Claudia Alick, Sara Nović, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Alice Wong, Maysoon Zayid