How does design impact your life? How often do you think about it? We at Fun4theDisabled are incredibly excited to tell you about an exhibit we visited recently that confronts those exact questions and raises many more. The exhibit, Voices Embodied: Reverberations,...
Navigating the Streets of Iquieque – The Inclusive City | Chilean Universal Design Ep. 3
VANESSA HARRIS: Hi, it's Vanessa Harris with Fun4theDisabled, bringing you the third installment of our Universal Design series. In the previous two installments, I talked with Kristine France Zuniga and Andrea Legarreta, two accessibility experts with the Chile...
Universal Design in Practice | Chilean Universal Design Episode 2
VANESSA HARRIS: Hi, I'm Vanessa Harris with Fun4theDisabled, bringing you the second installment of our Universal Design series. In our first installment, I talked with Kristine France Zuniga, a trained architect and consultant with expertise in the accessibility of...
Disability In Design | Chilean Universal Design Episode 1
VANESSA HARRIS: Hi, This is Vanessa Harris with Fun4theDisabled. I'm here with Kristine France Zúñiga and Andrea Legarreta, who are experts from Chile on Universal Design & Universal Accessibility. Welcome to Fun4theDisabled. KRISTINE FRANCE ZUNIGA: Hi. Thanks for...
Unraveling Ableism in Our Lives – Gizelle Clemens
Today, as we observe International Persons with Disabilities Day, I want to share a deeply personal journey that led me to confront a harsh reality: we live in an ableist society, and it is killing us. Ableism, as aptly defined by abolitionist TL Lewis, is a system...
Sitting Down with A Maverick for Change in Mexico: Andres Balcazar
Check out our latest blog post on Universal Design practices implemented in Mexico and beyond! This blog written by Vanessa Harris, Sophia Jean, Hongji Feng and Ellie Benton was based on an interview Vanessa Harris conducted with Andres Balcazar. The blog post...
Breaking the Stigma: Elite Athletes Open Up About Mental Health
This guest post was written by Sophia Jean When Gymnastics star and Olympic champion Simone Biles arrived at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, everyone expected her to sweep through the competitions and deliver breathtaking performances. However, the pressure and stress that...
The Prominent Occupation of the Sightless in China
By Hongji Feng CHONGQING, CHINA In the past twenty years of my life, I have never walked into a blind massage parlor - people from countries like the United States probably have never heard of it. A massage given by blind therapists is an actual thing in China, and a...
Judith Heumann and Vanessa Harris-Icon to Icon
> Hi. This is Vanessa Harris with Fun4theDisabled.com. Today, I’m having a conversation with Miss Judith Heumann -- > Hello. >> -- a human rights activist and a true icon. Hi, Judy. >> Hi. So are you, icon to icon. How are you? >> Okay. Judy is...
Black Entertainers with Disabilities
Name Disability Occupation Alice Beard dyslexia author Alicia Keys depression pianist, singer-songwriter Andrae Crouch dyslexia singer Barbara Jordan multiple sclerosis lawyer, educator, politician, civil rights leader Blind Tom Wiggins blind music prodigy, pianist,...
The View From My Chair by Frank Petrie
It is hard to imagine being in other people’s shoes, but it is even harder to imagine being in someone else’s chair. For Frank Petrie, the most common phrase he hears from non-wheelchair users is “I can only imagine.” This expression was the inspiration for “The View...
Being Nice is the Expletive Deleted Way to Go!
#Fun4thedisabled’s Vanessa Harris interviews Suz Ballout, a comedian, actor, and producer, about her struggles with mental health, as well as her Lebonese identity. She also discusses why it is common for comedians to have lived difficult lives....