{"id":226,"date":"2014-06-23T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T11:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:22:42","slug":"media-partner-3-heather-watkins-boston-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2014\/06\/23\/media-partner-3-heather-watkins-boston-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Partner #4: Heather Watkins, Boston, MA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say hello to <strong>Heather Watkins<\/strong>, the project\u2019s 4<sup>th<\/sup> media partner! Heather is a self-described Disability Advocate, author, mother, chocolate lover, daydreamer and cane-user. She\u2019s also a co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divaswithdisabilities.com\/home.html\">Divas with DisAbilities<\/a>,\u00a0a group that \u201caims to showcase the diversity and normalcy of women of color with the goal of impacting and transcending the definition of what disability looks like from our perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/22657_462653830526_593605526_11079579_401791_n.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"227\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2014\/06\/23\/media-partner-3-heather-watkins-boston-ma\/22657_462653830526_593605526_11079579_401791_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/22657_462653830526_593605526_11079579_401791_n.jpg?fit=404%2C604&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"404,604\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"22657_462653830526_593605526_11079579_401791_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Heather Watkins, Boston, MA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/22657_462653830526_593605526_11079579_401791_n.jpg?fit=404%2C604&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-227\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/22657_462653830526_593605526_11079579_401791_n.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"Image of an African-American woman smiling and looking to her left. She has long hair and is wearing a red outfit with pearls.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Watkins, Boston, MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Follow her on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hwatkins927\">@hwatkins927<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Divas with DisAbilities: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divaswithdisabilities.com\/home.html\">http:\/\/www.divaswithdisabilities.com\/home.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say hello to Heather Watkins, the project\u2019s 4th media partner! Heather is a self-described Disability Advocate, author, mother, chocolate lover, daydreamer and cane-user. She\u2019s also a co-founder of Divas with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2014\/06\/23\/media-partner-3-heather-watkins-boston-ma\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Media Partner #4: Heather Watkins, Boston, MA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":true,"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":[6701202,1],"tags":[6722,5967,8225,40576,2542,1064370,49818],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blog-posts","category-uncategorized","tag-activism","tag-advocacy","tag-boston","tag-disability","tag-divas","tag-media-partner","tag-social-media","post-has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4H7t1-3E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}