The Voting Power of Women with Disabilities
Portraits of Empowerment: Jake Linn
CW: suicide, mental health
During AAPD’s Disability Advocacy Certificate Program, participants learn how to advocate on the local, state, and national level. Through the Portraits of Empowerment series, participants share when they first learned about advocacy. Here we are featuring Jake Linn's story.
National Disability Rights Network's Jack Rosen delivers an important message on why it is necessary to register to vote and go to the polls! #REVUP #NDVRW #DisabilityVote #CripTheVote
Watch Representative Beto O'Rourke give a special shout-out for #REVUP! #NDVRW #DisabilityVote #CripTheVote
*This is not an endorsement of Representative O'Rourke or the Democratic Party as we are a nonpartisan organization.
Listen to Allie Cannington and Chanelle Ignant's beautiful rendition of The Times They Are A-Changin by Bob Dylan! #NDVRW #REVUP #DisabilityVote #CripTheVote
Thank you Nyle DiMarco for helping us spread the word! Watch his REV UP the Vote message!
To celebrate the end of #NDVRW we're putting up all the REV UP the Vote Festival videos! Watch Elizabeth Warren give her remarks on the disability vote. And stay tuned for more! #REVUP #DisabilityVote #CripTheVote
*This is not an endorsment of the Senator or of the Democratic Party as we are a nonpartisan organization
#Unlabeled
When Keri was eight years old she was diagnosed with bone cancer and that left her with a new identity. She wants to redefine how society labels people with disabilities because she finds power and strength in being a black disabled woman. We proud to share her story as part of the @Diet Coke #unlabeled campaign.
And, in the spirit of this, AAPD will be partnering with 6 students with disabilities for an internship with Coca-Cola at their headquarters this summer. Application deadline is TOMORROW, January 31st: https://www.aapd.com/summer-internship-program/. #unlabeled
AAPD #Unlabeled
AAPD is proud to partner with Diet Coke to discuss disability identity and labels. Check out the video featuring our very own Keri Gray! What has been your experience with labels? How do you define/discuss your identity? #unlabeled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx7Y6bti_Bw&t=9s
Beto O'Rourke and NDVRW
Former Congressman of Texas and Presidential Candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks about National Disability Voter Registration Week & the importance of voting: https://youtu.be/qXg0b1eXPX8. #REVUP #DisabilityVote #CripTheVote
REV UP and Get Out the Disability Vote
Vote as if your life depends on it - because it does!
The REV UP Campaign, launched by the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) in 2016, is a nonpartisan initiative that coordinates with national, state, and local disability organizations to increase the political participation of the disability community while also engaging candidates and the media on disability issues. The Campaign focuses on voter registration, education, access, and engagement. REV UP stands for Register! Educate! Vote! Use your Power!
Running Out
Interested in learning how to create advocacy videos on disability rights issues? Apply for the AAPD and Rooted in Rights Disability Rights Storytellers Fellowship!
Applications are due by September 4, 2018.
Apply here: https://www.aapd.com/disability-rights-storytellers/
Running Out
Women, LGBTQ folks, and people with disabilities are all underrepresented in public office. So what if you’re all three of those — is there a place in politics for you?
Carrie Wade discusses paths to success for nontraditional candidates in 2018 and beyond and provides resources for candidates at rootedinrights.org/RunningOut. #Politics #DisabledCandidates #DisabledVoices
This is Carrie's second video as our Disability Rights Storytellers Fellow. We are now taking applications for new Storytellers Fellows! Apply at https://www.aapd.com/disability-rights-storytellers/ - deadline is Tues., Sept. 4th, 2018.
2018-2019 Disability Rights Storytellers Fellowship Announcement
The American Association of People with Disabilities and Rooted in Rights are accepting applications for the 2018-2019 Disability Rights Storytellers Fellowship. The Disability Rights Storytellers Fellowship provides the opportunity to learn and apply skills in digital media storytelling and disability advocacy.
Our 2017 Storytellers Fellow Carrie Wade shares her experience and why you should apply! The deadline to apply is Tues., September 4th, 2018.
https://www.aapd.com/disability-rights-storytellers/
#StorytellersFellowship #Storytellers
Emily Ladau - 2018 AAPD Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader Award Recipient
Emily Ladau is a passionate disability rights activist, writer, speaker, and digital communications consultant whose career began at the age of 10, when she appeared on several episodes of Sesame Street to educate children about her life with a physical disability. She is dedicated to harnessing the powers of communication and social media as tools for people of all abilities to become informed and engaged about disability and social justice issues.
With the 2018 AAPD Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader Award, Emily plans to establish a Disabled Writers Fellowship through Rooted in Rights to provide mentorship opportunities for emerging writers with disabilities that will empower them to hone their writing skills and contribute their work to the disability rights movement.
Learn more about the AAPD Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader Award: https://www.aapd.com/aapd-paul-g-hearne-leadership-awards/
Lydia Brown - 2018 AAPD Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader Award Recipient
Lydia X. Z. Brown is an advocate, organizer, and writer whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply-marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization, incarceration, and policing. They have worked to advance transformative change through organizing in the streets, writing legislation, conducting anti-ableism workshops, testifying at regulatory and policy hearings, and disrupting institutional complacency everywhere from the academy to state agencies and the nonprofit-industrial complex.
With the 2018 AAPD Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader Award, Lydia plans to establish a community/peer empowerment fund in partnership with the Autism Women’s Network to award micro-grants to autistic people of color seeking support for education, professional development, art, health and safety, and community organizing.
Learn more about the AAPD Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader Award: https://www.aapd.com/aapd-paul-g-hearne-leadership-awards/
Did Love Win?
Did we really achieve marriage equality in 2015?
Carrie Wade explains how Social Security marriage penalties keep equal dignity out of reach for queer people with disabilities at www.rootedinrights.org/didlovewin
#Storytellers #LGBTQ #MarriageEquality #SSI #SSDI #SocialSecurity
Katherine Perez - 2017 AAPD Paul G. Hearne Leadership Award Re...
Katherine Perez is a recipient of the 2017 AAPD Paul G. Hearne Leadership Award. She is a scholar and activist from La Mirada, California who engages critical legal and historical analyses of disability laws and policies. Katherine is a Founding Member of the Coalición Nacional para Latinxs con Discapacidades (National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities).
The AAPD Paul G. Hearne Leadership Award recognizes outstanding emerging leaders with disabilities who exemplify leadership, advocacy, and dedication to the broader cross-disability community.
Learn more about Katherine: http://www.aapd.com/aapd-paul-g-hearne-leadership-awards/
Ola Ojewumi - 2017 AAPD Paul G. Hearne Leadership Award Recipient
Ola Ojewumi is a recipient of the 2017 AAPD Paul G. Hearne Leadership Award. She is an activist, journalist, and a community organizer based in Washington, DC, and the founder of two nonprofits: Sacred Hearts Children’s Transplant Foundation and Project ASCEND.
The AAPD Paul G. Hearne Leadership Award recognizes outstanding emerging leaders with disabilities who exemplify leadership, advocacy, and dedication to the broader cross-disability community.
Learn more about Ola: http://www.aapd.com/aapd-paul-g-hearne-leadership-awards/
Disability Visibility Project Montage
Alice Wong is one of the recipients of the 2016 AAPD Paul G. Hearne Leadership Award. In 2014, she launched the Disability Visibility Project (DVP).
The DVP is an online community dedicated to recording, amplifying, and sharing disability stories and culture. In partnership with StoryCorps, a national oral history non-profit dedicated to recording the stories of all Americans, the DVP allows people to tell their stories on their own terms and have them archived them for posterity.
The DVP aims to collect the diverse voices of people in the disability community and preserve their history for all, especially underrepresented groups.
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