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Beyond Barriers to Progression & Employment in Dance for Disabled People
Beyond Barriers
Beyond Barriers to Progression & Employment in Dance for Disabled People is a research study evidencing the barriers that disabled people experience when working in dance and one that aims to initiate wider discussions and actions across the dance sector to better support the progression and employment of disabled people. Findings are offered in a wide range of formats including long text, short text, audio, animated film, and BSL.
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10 Principles of Disability Justice
Patty Berne and Sins Invalid
From our vantage point within Sins Invalid, where we incubate the framework and practice of disability justice, this emerging framework has ten principles, each offering opportunities for
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Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice
Carolyn Lazard
An accessibility guide geared toward small-scale arts nonprofits and the potentially expansive publics these organizations serve. It details specific ways in which disabled people are excluded from cultural spaces and offers possible solutions to those barriers.
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Arts & Culture Accessibility Self-Assessment
Open Door Arts
This free electronic tool was created specifically to help arts and cultural organizations understand and improve their accessibility.
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Audio Description Project
American Council of the Blind
The ADP advocates for high-quality audio description in television, movies, performing arts, museums, educational materials, and other visual media. The ADP sponsors activities and events to train describers, honor audio description creators, and raise awareness of the value of audio description.
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The ASL App
The ASL App
The ASL App is all about teaching you conversational ASL. Packed with 2,500+ signs and phrases, easy navigation and features, with different signers, The ASL App is designed to make learning easy, accessible, and fun.
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Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform
Bodies in Translation
The Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform showcases the collaborative work of disabled, D/deaf, Mad, aging, e/Elder, and fat artists and scholars, including learning modules and artistic work.
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Know Your Voting Rights: For People with Mental Disabilities
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
We have created a brochure aimed at informing persons, especially persons with mental disabilities, of their voting rights, protections, and options! Translated versions of the brochure are available in Chinese, Hindi, Ilocano, Korean, Marshallese, Tagalog, Tongan, and Vietnamese.
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Pay Rate for Access Workers Now (PRAWN)
Madison Zalopany and Alison Kopit
This project came out of a series of conversations among disabled access workers whose advocacy, counsel, expertise, and labor specifically focused on transforming cultural spaces in the US to be disability-centered. We aimed to collect, document, and share current pay rates to build collective power and create clearer industry standards.
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Praxis Sessions for Virtual Collaboration: Land Acknowledgements
HowlRound, Unsettling Dramaturgy
Members of Unsettling Dramaturgy: Crip & Indigenous Dramaturgies discuss the necessity, importance, complexity, and difficulty of land acknowledgements in the context of online organizing, creation and collaboration.
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Disability Equity in NYC’s Arts & Culture Landscape
Disability/Arts/NYC Task Force (DANT)
DANT crafted this publication to document the unique moment unfolding in NYC several years when it has seemed like a broad and powerful movement for disability artistry is possible. The hope is that this report is an accounting of the entrenched discriminatory forces that work against the disability community. NOTE: DANT is no longer active, and this report is archived.
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Careers in the Arts Toolkit
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
An online resource promoting equity, access, and inclusion for people with disabilities seeking careers in the arts.
Accessibility + Disability JusticeDance EducationFunding & FundraisingJustice Equity & InclusionToolkit/Guide