78 - Dating Disabled Through a Disability Justice and LGBTQ+ Perspective

Sonya Rio-Glick (she/her) is a queer and disabled Disability Justice practitioner, organizational leader, writer, and cultural worker based in Atlanta. Raised by two moms in Upstate NY, Sonya has contended with complex social justice issues her entire life.

In 2013, she began providing disability etiquette and accessibility workshops at COLAGE, the largest support network for people with LGBTQ+ parents & caregivers in the US, which spearheaded a career in social change: in 2015 Sonya released a full length documentary on disability The Souls of our Feet, and would go on to reform fire evacuation policy for students at Purchase College, SUNY, where she would graduate with a BA in Arts Management.

Since graduating, Sonya has danced, choreographed, and facilitated trainings on a range of social-political issues across the US. Notably, she produced the Dance Poem Waves With Nowhere To Go in 2022, and is the former Co-Executive Director of Dance for All Bodies.

Recently Sonya had the honor of supporting Stacey Abrams' 2022 gubernatorial campaign in a Disability Engagement & Accessibility capacity, and is pursuing graduate studies in Social Justice at Harvard University. She dreams of a world that integrates principles of Disability Justice- find out more about Sonya's work at www.sonyarioglick.com.

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How you can connect with Sonya:

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Website

Waves With Nowhere To Go (English)

Waves With Nowhere To Go (Spanish)

I'm Sexy and Disabled: Now What? 

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