The Disability Visibility Project (DVP) was founded by Alice Wong in 2014 as a community partnership with StoryCorps to record the experiences of disabled people in their own voices. It has since grown into one of the most important disability media platforms in the country — a publication, a podcast archive, an essay anthology, and a network. For autism families looking to understand the broader disability movement, DVP is the entry point.

What DVP actually does

DVP publishes essays, runs the Disability Visibility Podcast archive, curates Twitter conversations around disability community priorities, and produces book anthologies that have moved disability writing into mainstream literary attention. Alice Wong's anthology Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (2020) put disability writing on the New York Times bestseller list and changed the publishing landscape for disabled writers.

Resources worth knowing

  • The DVP archive at the Library of Congress — 100+ recorded interviews with disabled adults, preserved as part of the national folklife archive.
  • The Disability Visibility anthology (2020) — 37 essays by disabled writers covering health care, work, intimacy, family, identity, politics. Required reading.
  • The Disability Visibility podcast archive — 100+ episodes (the active podcast wound down in 2021, but the archive is permanent).
  • Year One newsletter by Alice Wong — running commentary on disability politics, media, and culture.
  • Crip Camp educational resources — the Netflix documentary's accompanying curriculum, frequently cited in disability-studies courses.

When to point families at DVP

If an autism family is starting to understand that autism is one identity within the larger disability movement, DVP is the bridge. If an autistic adult is looking for writing by adults navigating multiple intersecting identities — race, queerness, chronic illness, autism — DVP has the deepest archive. If a teacher or clinician needs adult disability voices to learn from, this is the primary source.

Alice Wong as a node

Alice Wong is one of the most cited disability advocates of the past decade. Her writing, her interviews, and her curation work have shaped what mainstream culture knows about disability. For families newly entering disability community, following her work alone is a high-leverage education.

Find them: disabilityvisibilityproject.com. Start with the anthology, then explore the archive.

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Disclaimer: educational content from autistic adults and the autism family community. Not medical or legal advice. Consult a qualified professional for medical and legal decisions specific to your situation.