Disability Community, Culture & History Links

Disability History Museum

• The Disability History Museum's mission is to promote understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities by recovering, chronicling, and interpreting their stories to help foster a deeper understanding of disability and to dispel lingering myths, assumptions, and stereotypes by examining these cultural legacies.

Disability Social History Project

• The Disability History Project is a community history project that welcomes your participation.  People with disabilities have an exciting and rich history that should be shared with the world.

I AM PWD

• The nation’s largest minority cannot remain invisible in the entertainment and news media.  The mission and goals of the I AM PWD campaign becomes one of basic, civil and human rights; no different than what any other group has fought for in the past or continues to fight for today.  People with disabilities will finally see themselves truly integrated on the stage and screen.  They will see themselves report the news of interest to the general community at large, as well as the disability community.  They will no longer fight for access into inaccessible interviews, auditions or work sites.  Most importantly, children will grow up seeing themselves and know they are not alone...or different.  People with disabilities of all ages will finally become part of the American Scene in the media. 

National Minorities with Disabilities Coalition (NMDC)

• The NMDC,  a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is a national response to the need for minorities with disabilities in America to organize around issues of mutual concern and use that collective strength to address disability issues from all communities of color.

Ouch!

• Ouch! is a website from the BBC that reflects the lives and experiences of disabled people.  It has articles, blogs, a very busy messageboard and an award-winning downloadable radio show - The Ouch Podcast.  It's aimed at those with a stakehold in disability: family, friends, professionals and, rather importantly, disabled people themselves - without whom all this would be a bit meaningless.  There are many ways to join in, comment and add value by posting your personal experiences or helpful tips.  Ouch! often likes to use humour and doesn't dodge issues with fancy politically correct language.  And the Ouch team are themselves disabled.