Disability and Media Alliance Project (D-MAP) provides support, guidance, and quality control on disability-themed stories creatively addressing the frequently urgent needs of reporters, journalists, producers, and content creators with an insider’s understanding of how the media works to help tell accurate, compelling stories that disrupt, transcend, and transform traditional stereotypes. We are a source for disability stories, and we can familiarize media makers with the realities—good and bad—of living with a disability.
Too often, the public face of disability is the brave person overcoming obstacles, and the question of why obstacles exist in the first place goes unasked. We believe that change can come by working alongside media makers to ensure that people with disabilities are authentically represented. People with disabilities have lives and views on everything from the economic crisis to health care and from terrorism to fashion — we must be represented more broadly.
D-MAP is a project of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.