Goal 4) Support Disability Media, Original Work, and Activism

In addition to Goals 1-3, $2400/month will support the work of in creating disability media, original content for the Disability Visibility Project™, and activism.

This amount equals $15/hour for a typical 8-hour day, Monday-Friday (20 days/month).

Some examples:

• Interviewing disabled people at StoryCorps and recording their oral histories.
• Writing essays, interviews, and blog posts for the DVP website.
• Curation and moderation of posts for the DVP Facebook group, an online community with +10k members.
• Hosting Twitter chats on disability issues.
• Presenting and participating in panels about social media, disability culture, and activism.
• Partnering and collaborating in other projects that are cross-movement, cross-disability, and intersectional such as #CripTheVote.
• Monthly services such as web-hosting, cloud storage, and apps (specific costs here).
• Creation of DVP podcast (recording equipment, freelance producers, and costs of transcription). Check out this 2016 story co-produced, written, and narrated by Alice Wong, "Choreography of Care", that featured six disabled people from the San Francisco Bay Area and aired on Making Contact radio.
• Small reserve of funds designated for sign language interpreters and other accommodations for people who want to record their stories at StoryCorps.