Disability Visibility Project — Free Disability Peer Community & Media
The Disability Visibility Project (DVP) is an online community founded in 2014 by disability activist and journalist Alice Wong dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. The Project hosts a vibrant peer community across podcasts, social media, the Disability Visibility book series, and ongoing dialogue among disabled people across identities and experiences. Through podcasts, interviews, anthologies, online events, and community spaces, DVP has built one of the most influential disability peer communities in the country — by and for disabled people.
What to Expect
DVP’s community engages primarily online through its long-running podcast (140+ episodes featuring conversations between disabled hosts and disabled guests), a robust Twitter/X presence under #DisabilityVisibility, written essays and oral histories collected in the Disability Visibility book series, and ongoing community events. The Project has built a peer culture where disabled people speak about their own experiences in their own words — covering topics that mainstream media often ignores including disability justice, intersectionality, Asian disability identity, fat disability community, queer disability, sick and chronically ill life, and the ongoing political and cultural work of disability liberation.
Who This Group Is For
DVP serves disabled people of all kinds — including people with physical, intellectual, developmental, sensory, chronic illness, mental health, and other disabilities. The community is intentional about centering the voices of disabled people of color, queer and trans disabled folks, fat disabled people, sick and chronically ill folks, and others whose experiences are often marginalized within both disability and non-disability spaces. Allies and non-disabled people can engage as listeners and readers but are not the primary audience.
Why Peer Support Works
For many disabled people, finding peer community in which the leadership, voice, and perspective is disabled — rather than ally-led or charity-framed — is rare and meaningful. DVP creates exactly that space, at scale, through media that’s accessible from anywhere. The Project has played a foundational role in articulating disability culture, identity, and community in the 2010s and 2020s, and continues to be a touchstone for disabled people finding their political and personal voice.
How to Join
DVP content and community are free. Visit disabilityvisibilityproject.com to listen to the podcast, read essays and oral histories, find books and anthologies, follow the Project on social media, and engage with the broader community. The site also lists ways to support DVP and contribute to ongoing projects.