We're starting a new series on Black Body Health: The Podcast. This week, you get to meet Vilissa Thompson. For 10 years, Thompson has led Ramp Your Voice!, an organization that promotes empowerment, education, inclusion, and self-advocacy for disabled people like herself.
According to the World Health Organization, there are three dimensions of disability
- Body functions and structure (impairment)
- Activities at the individual level
- Restriction in participation in society
With this in mind, there are still societal pressures and exclusions which prevent people with disabilities from being active or participatory in the ways they would like to be.
This episode opens up with host Natasha Phelps explaining what disability rights are and the diversity found within the disabled population. Part one of this series is all about why Vilissa Thompson became an activist.
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CREDITS:
Host, Natasha Phelps
Producer,Chelsey Sellars
Logo Designer, Ashlee Woods
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