{"id":188254,"date":"2016-11-17T00:05:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T08:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/?p=188254"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:22:22","slug":"looking-ahead-the-future-of-cripthevote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2016\/11\/17\/looking-ahead-the-future-of-cripthevote\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Ahead: The Future of #CripTheVote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">The 2016 Presidential election is officially over. This was an unprecedented election for many reasons. When #CripTheVote started this past February, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/disabilitythinking.com\/faqs\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">our primary goal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> was \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">to engage both voters and politicians in a productive discussion about disability issues in the United States, with the hope that Disability takes on greater prominence within the American political landscape.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">As the co-partners of #CripTheVote, we\u2019re here to tell you about our expanded vision thanks to the participation of the disability community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:60px;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">#CripTheVote is a nonpartisan online movement activating and engaging disabled people on policies and practices important to the disability community. Our movement is grounded in online conversations encouraging individual and collective action in the face of inequality, ableism, and oppression in all forms. Our movement is intersectional, local, global, and focused on the political participation of disabled people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Specifically, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">#CripTheVote will \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Continue to be an intersectional movement by and for the entire disability community.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Keep our hashtag as it is.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Remain online, community-based, and as decentralized as possible.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Expand our focus beyond voting to other forms of political participation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Ask questions and demand accountability from our elected and public officials.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Engage with disability issues at the local, state, national, and international levels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Provide a space for conversation as stimulus for collective action. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Support direct actions and organizers by sharing and amplifying information about them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Partner with disabled people and organizations in broadening our movement\u2019s perspectives and expertise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Refrain from endorsing or supporting candidates, public officials, or political parties.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Oppose and critique any policy or practice that potentially harms disabled people.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Explore and promote promising ideas for better disability policies and practices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">We do not intend to become a nonprofit organization, raise money, or otherwise \u201cprofessionalize\u201d #CripTheVote.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Updates <\/b><\/h3>\n<p>We have a blog now! You can find the latest information about our chats and other activities here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cripthevote.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/cripthevote.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><b>Gratitude <\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">We are so grateful to the disability community for making #CripTheVote the force that it has become. It will take our continued effort as a community to keep things going. Without all of you taking ownership of the hashtag we could not have the impact we have had, and make no mistake we have had an impact. The level of the discussion around disability issues has been raised in all spheres. Politicians, the media and the public know that our community can no longer be placated by a mere mention and that we demand engagement. This is something we can build on as we move into an uncertain future. Thank you all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In solidarity,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Gregg Beratan, Andrew Pulrang, and Alice Wong<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Co-Partners, #CripTheVote<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Stay In Touch!<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Alice:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><a href=\"mailto:DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com\">DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Andrew:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><a href=\"mailto:apulrang@charter.net\">apulrang@charter.net<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Gregg:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:G.Beratan@yahoo.com\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">G.Beratan@yahoo.c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">om<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">\u201cLike\u201d the #CripTheVote Facebook page for updates and events: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CripTheVote\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CripTheVote\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Subscribe to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Disability Visibility Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/disabilitythinking.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Disability Thinking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> for related blog posts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Follow the co-partners on Twitter:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewPulrang\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">@AndrewPulrang<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreggBeratan\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">@GreggBeratan<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFdirewolf\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">@SFdirewolf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> (also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DisVisibility\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">@DisVisibility<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left:60px;\"><strong>A Movement begins when large numbers of people, having reached the point where they feel they can\u2019t take the way things are any more, see some hope of improving their daily lives and begin to move on their own to bring about change.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:60px;\"><strong>A Movement begins to assume momentum when people begin exploring visionary answers to the questions being asked at the grassroots and engage in practical activities which can be replicated without huge bureaucracies. In the early stages of a Movement, the visionary answers being explored usually strike most people as too radical or too impractical. If they don\u2019t, they are probably not profound enough to build a Movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:150px;\"><strong>&#8211;Grace Lee Boggs <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:150px;\">[Excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/16\/how-movements-build-five-lessons-from-grace-lee-boggs\/\">Grace Lee Boggs, \u201cTowards A New Vision and a New Movement,\u201d presented at the University of Michigan Law School Symposium, October 13-14, 1995.<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Presidential election is officially over. This was an unprecedented election for many reasons. When #CripTheVote started this past February, our primary goal was \u201cto engage both voters and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2016\/11\/17\/looking-ahead-the-future-of-cripthevote\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looking Ahead: The Future of #CripTheVote<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6701202],"tags":[159346,6722,5967,10941,444672310,40576,10372239,2005041,2185238,55897910,113093,943085,1076582,398,1301269,49818,1400,599182],"class_list":["post-188254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-blog-posts","tag-ableism","tag-activism","tag-advocacy","tag-civil-rights","tag-crip-the-vote","tag-disability","tag-disability-community","tag-disability-culture","tag-disability-history","tag-disability-identity","tag-discrimination","tag-intersectionality","tag-political-participation","tag-politics","tag-public-policies","tag-social-media","tag-storytelling","tag-twitter","post-has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13445920_10208347534239417_406397148_o.png?fit=2048%2C759&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4H7t1-MYm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}