At VidCon,Married Women's Sex Party (2025) creator Peet Montzingo was joined by Imani Barbarin, Briel Adams-Wheatley, and Pat Valentine of the Valentine Brothers at the panel, Accessibility for All: Creating Inclusive Spaces Online and IRL.
The panel came together to discuss their experience as creators advocating for disability rights. Pat Valentine makes videos with his brother Zach, who was born with Down syndrome, and represented the duo on the panel, while Imani Barbarin and Briel Wheatley-Adams were able to speak to their own experience.
SEE ALSO: Here are the highlights from VidCon 2025 this week so farWhen asked how accessibility overlaps in their personal and professional lives, Barbarin said, "I personally view accessibility as imagination and practice. I think that disabled people are some of the most creative people on the planet, because we have to adapt every single day to our environment."
Valentine noted, "Being accessible as a community and as society is really just honoring voices, listening to disabled people, and including them in everyday life and everyday conversations."
While Wheatley said, "Everyone has a disability, if they want to admit it to themselves or not, whether that's physically, mentally, or emotionally, and we all deserve to be somewhere and everywhere.
The panel's conversation focused on navigating disability in the everyday world, and as Barbarin wisely put it, "the disability math" that is required every day to navigate the world. Much of the dialogue focused on the importance of visibility, noting how the disabled community was institutionalized during the Industrial Revolution, and the importance of listening to disabled voices rather than speaking for them.
As Barbarin put it, "Disabled people are rarely seen as reliable narrators of their own stories and experiences, and so everybody else becomes an authority upon us, and it makes it so much harder to actually advocate for ourselves against the backdrop of a society that has stolen our voices from us."
Topics Creators VidCon
Muriel Rukeyser, Mother of Everyone by Sam HuberWill There Ever Be Another Writer Like Philip Roth?Abridged Classics by John AtkinsonPoetry Rx: I Wish You a Tongue Scalded by TeaStaff Picks: Sharp Women and Humble TurtlesSamsung early Cyber Monday TV deals 2023: $1,000 off 85Redux: Celebrating Pride Month by The Paris ReviewNYT's The Mini crossword answers for November 25Emma Chamberlain on coffee culture, staying sane online, and running a business at 21BLK dating app combating Black tax by giving away moneyPoetry Rx: I Wish You a Tongue Scalded by TeaJoan Quigley, Ronald Reagan’s Guide to the Stars by Jessica WeisbergEarly Cyber Monday: Lego Ideas BTS Dynamite kit on sale for $64.99 at AmazonCyber Monday Amazon Echo deals 2023Redux: Three for Dad by The Paris ReviewMy Own Boundaries Seem to Be Fading: An Interview with Lauren GroffWill There Ever Be Another Writer Like Philip Roth?Cooking With Pather PanchaliThe Unfortunate Fate of Childhood DollsAnnouncing Our Summer Issue by The Paris Review Nathaniel Mackey & Cathy Park Hong with NYC High Dentist Poem Becoming a Redwood “Catch the Heavenly Bodies”: 4 Paintings by Jay Miriam Daniel Spoerri’s Flea Staff Picks: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Han Kang, Luis Felipe Fabre How We Imagined a Female President Would Look in 1992 D. W. Griffith’s “Intolerance” Changed Life Outside the Movies “Bad Behavior”: An Interview with Alexia Arthurs Thirty Malapropisms The Day Antonioni Came to the Asylum (Rhapsody) The Rise of the Spoiler Alert Translating Adonis’s “Elegy for the Times” What If Algorithms Made Cities? Daniel Brown’s Dystopian Photos An Interview with Jana Prikryl How the Internet Makes Memoirists of Us All The Curious Case of Ernst Kantorowicz All In: Gambling and Addiction in Susanville Gregory Rabassa, Marquez Translator, Is Dead at Ninety Staff Picks: Weiner, Whit Stillman, Geoff Dyer, and More
3.2447s , 10114.28125 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【Married Women's Sex Party (2025)】,Unobstructed Information Network