Disability-focused blogs, news sites, and online publications. This list centers disabled writers, disability-led organizations, and authentic disability perspectives.
This list prioritizes websites and blogs written by disabled people or run by disability-led organizations. We include news sites, personal blogs, community hubs, and educational resources.
Legend:
Start here for foundational disability websites.
✦ 📝 🏛️ Disability Visibility Project (disabilityvisibilityproject.com) – Alice Wong's landmark project creating, amplifying, and sharing disability stories. Oral history partnership with StoryCorps, podcast, anthologies, extensive resources. Essential hub for disability culture and community.
✦ 🏛️ Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) (autisticadvocacy.org) – Autistic-led organization. Policy advocacy, resources, toolkits, position statements on autism issues. "Nothing about us without us" in practice.
✦ 🏛️ National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) (ncil.org) – Cross-disability advocacy organization led by disabled people. Policy information, advocacy resources, Centers for Independent Living directory.
✦ 📝 Crutches and Spice (crutchesandspice.com) – Imani Barbarin (Black disabled woman). Disability justice, intersectionality, pop culture analysis. Influential voice, also on social media @caboray.
✦ 🏛️ ADAPT (adapt.org) – Direct action disability rights organization. News, campaigns, disability rights history.
🏛️ Disability Scoop (disabilityscoop.com) – Developmental disability news. Daily updates on policy, research, community news.
📝 Rooted in Rights (rootedinrights.org) – Disability Rights Washington project. Video content, blogs, disability rights news.
🏛️ American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) (aapd.com) – Policy news, advocacy updates, leadership programs.
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) (dredf.org) – Legal advocacy, policy analysis, civil rights news.
🌍 📝 Disability News Service (disabilitynewsservice.com) – John Pring. Independent disability news in UK. Investigative journalism on disability rights. 🌍
🌍 🏛️ Disability Rights UK (disabilityrightsuk.org) – News, policy, resources. 🌍
🌍 The Limping Chicken (limpingchicken.com) – UK Deaf news and culture blog. 🌍
✦ 📝 Crutches and Spice (crutchesandspice.com) – Imani Barbarin. [See Essential Resources]
📝 Claiming Crip (claimingcrip.com) – Academic disability blog, personal essays.
📝 The Squeaky Wheelchair (thesqueakywheelchair.com) – Disability lifestyle, advocacy, personal essays.
📝 Diary of a Disabled Person – Personal disability blog.
📝 The Wheelchair Teen – Young wheelchair user's blog.
📝 🌍 Stim Your Heart Out – Autistic blogger. 🌍
📝 The Mighty (themighty.com) – Large platform for health and disability stories. [Note: Not disability-led; mixed community reception. Useful for finding voices, but verify individual authors]
📝 Disability Intersectionality Summit Blog – Intersectional disability perspectives.
✦ 📝 🏛️ Disability Visibility Project (disabilityvisibilityproject.com) – [See Essential Resources]
🏛️ Sins Invalid (sinsinvalid.org) – Disability justice performance project. Essays, resources, disability justice framework.
📝 Disability Arts Online (disabilityarts.online) – UK-based disability arts culture, reviews, features. 🌍
🏛️ National Disability Theatre (nationaldisabilitytheatre.org) – Deaf and disability theater.
📝 Crip Camp Legacy – Community continuing Crip Camp documentary conversations.
✦ 🏛️ NCIL (ncil.org) – [See Essential Resources]
✦ 🏛️ ADAPT (adapt.org) – [See Essential Resources]
🏛️ AAPD (aapd.com) – American Association of People with Disabilities.
🏛️ Disability Rights Advocates (dralegal.org) – Legal advocacy.
🏛️ RespectAbility (respectability.org) – Employment and entertainment inclusion. [Note: Some community debate about positions]
✦ 🏛️ ASAN (autisticadvocacy.org) – Autism. [See Essential Resources]
🏛️ National Association of the Deaf (NAD) (nad.org) – Deaf rights advocacy.
🏛️ National Federation of the Blind (NFB) (nfb.org) – Blind advocacy and community.
🏛️ Little People of America (lpaonline.org) – Little people community.
🏛️ United Spinal Association (unitedspinal.org) – Spinal cord injury and disease.
🏛️ Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) (sabeusa.org) – Intellectual disability self-advocacy.
Disability Studies Quarterly (dsq-sds.org) – Open-access academic journal.
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies – Academic publication.
Disability and Society – Academic journal (Taylor & Francis).
📝 Disability Thinking – Academic/personal blog on disability issues.
Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability (longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu) – San Francisco State research institute.
📝 The Mighty (themighty.com) – Health stories platform. [See note above]
📝 Chronic Illness Bloggers – Directory of chronic illness blogs.
📝 But You Don't Look Sick (butyoudontlooksick.com) – Spoon Theory origin site, chronic illness community.
📝 Rest Room – Chronic illness blog.
📝 #MEAction (meaction.net) – ME/CFS advocacy and news.
✦ 🏛️ ASAN (autisticadvocacy.org) – [See Essential Resources]
📝 Thinking Person's Guide to Autism (thinkingautismguide.com) – Autistic perspectives, parent ally resources.
📝 NeuroClastic (neuroclastic.com) – Autistic-written articles on autism.
📝 Actually Autistic Blogs List – Directory of autistic bloggers.
📝 Autistic Hoya (autistichoya.com) – Lydia X. Z. Brown. Disability justice, autism, intersectionality.
📝 Musings of an Aspie – Autistic woman's blog. [Note: Uses older terminology]
📝 ADHD Alien – Illustrated ADHD blog.
CHADD (chadd.org) – ADHD information and advocacy.
📝 How to ADHD (howtoadhd.com) – Jessica McCabe's website.
🏛️ NAD (nad.org) – National Association of the Deaf.
📝 🌍 The Limping Chicken (limpingchicken.com) – UK Deaf news. 🌍
Gallaudet University (gallaudet.edu) – University resources, Deaf history.
📝 Deaf Echo – Deaf community blog.
🏛️ NFB (nfb.org) – National Federation of the Blind.
🏛️ American Council of the Blind (acb.org) – Blind advocacy.
📝 BlindNewWorld – Blind community blog.
AFB (American Foundation for the Blind) (afb.org) – Resources and advocacy.
🏛️ United Spinal Association (unitedspinal.org) – SCI resources.
📝 Wheelchair Travel (wheelchairtravel.org) – John Morris. Accessible travel.
📝 Curb Free with Cory Lee (curbfreewithcorylee.com) – Wheelchair travel blog.
🏛️ United Cerebral Palsy (ucp.org) – CP resources.
Parent Center Hub (parentcenterhub.org) – Information for parents of disabled children.
Family Voices (familyvoices.org) – Family advocacy.
PEAK Parent Center – Inclusive education resources.
🌍 🏛️ Disability Rights UK (disabilityrightsuk.org) – News, policy, resources. 🌍
🌍 📝 Disability News Service (disabilitynewsservice.com) 🌍
🌍 Scope UK (scope.org.uk) – Disability charity and resources. 🌍
🌍 📝 The Limping Chicken (limpingchicken.com) 🌍
🌍 📝 Disability Arts Online (disabilityarts.online) 🌍
🌍 DisAbled Women's Network Canada (DAWN) (dawncanada.net) 🌍
🌍 Council of Canadians with Disabilities (ccdonline.ca) 🌍
🌍 People with Disability Australia (PWDA) (pwd.org.au) 🌍
🌍 Disability Advocacy Network Australia (dana.org.au) 🌍
🌍 International Disability Alliance (internationaldisabilityalliance.org) 🌍
🌍 Disability Debrief (disabilitydebrief.substack.com) 🌍
These sites are no longer updated but contain valuable archives:
Ouch! (BBC) – BBC disability blog, archived.
Ragged Edge – Disability rights magazine archive.
Disability Social History Project – Historical resources.
Planet of the Blind – Stephen Kuusisto's blog (now less active).
Questions to ask:
Who runs it? Disability-led organization? Disabled writers? Parent organization? Charity?
What language is used? Identity-first? Person-first? "Special needs"? "Suffers from"?
Who benefits? Does money/attention go to disabled people or to non-disabled "helpers"?
What's the framing? Tragedy and cure? Or rights and culture?
Are disabled people quoted? Or talked about?
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Last updated: January 2026