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Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (#ADA) in 1990; #paraplegic art historian Guy McElroy & #Welsh #Paralympic racer Tanni Grey-Thompson!

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#DisabilityPride #a11y #accessibility #law #art #BlackSky #Wales
July 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
July 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Pennsylvania governor & #ADA champion Richard Thornburgh & classical #Turkish singer with a #stutter Müzeyyen Senar!

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#accessibility #a11y #history #DisabilityPride #OttomanEmpire #Turkey #Türkiye #law #stuttering #music
July 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #polio survivor & #Mexican #artist Frida Kahlo; #blind lawyer Dr. Jacobus tenBroek; & #HardOfHearing & #LowVision #Chinese historian Chen Yinke.

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#DisabilityPride #accessibility #history #China #Mexico #FridaKahlo #a11y
July 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate the 1978 "Gang of 19" bus protest in #Denver & #Colombian lawyer with #CerebralPalsy Jeison Aristizábal, who founded Latin America's first university for disabled students!

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#accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPride #DisHist
July 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate actor & advocate with #Parkinsons disease Michael J. Fox & #Deaf Canadian #geologist Dr. Donald J. Kidd!

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#Parkinson's #MichaelJFox #HearingLoss #DisabledInSTEM #DeafInSTEM #geology #Gallaudet #Canada #PhD #accessibility
June 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we remember Robert Smithdas, American educator & #poet considered the first #Deafblind person in the U.S. to earn a #MastersDegree!

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#meningitis #Deaf #blind #a11y #EduSky #PerkinsSchoolForTheBlind #HigherEd #accessibility #history
June 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate politician & #polio survivor J. Glenn Beall, #HardOfHearing #anthropologist Dr. Ruth Benedict, #poet with #OsteogenesisImperfecta Philippe Rahmy & #Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim!

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#accessibility #a11y #EduSky
June 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I'm looking for disabled people willing to share about the accessibility of their voting experiences via a brief Zoom or written interview (or any other format that works for you!) for @americanprogress.bsky.social's Disability Justice Initiative.

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The Center for American Progress (CAP) is seeking to understand disabled people's voting experiences. Rarely are disabled voters highlighted when talking about their right to vote. CAP's Disability Ju...
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June 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Bed-In: STOP RFK Jr's Autism Registry Virtual Rally Speaker Preview Part 1. Here is the link to register: www.tinyurl.com/noautismregi.... #DisabilityJustice #AutismAcceptance #Disability #PWD
June 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate Susan Sygall, American disability rights #activist, #MacArthur Fellow & co-founder of #Mobility International USA!

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#MobilityInternationalUSA #wheelchair #accessibility #a11y #UCBerkeley #DisabilityRights #MIUSA
June 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
June 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
June 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate disability rights activist with #CerebralPalsy Hale Zukas & disabled British #suffragette & #polio survivor Rosa May Billinghurst!

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#UCBerkeley #Berkeley #accessibility #a11y #Britain #suffrage #transporation #BART #vote
June 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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