Keep Moving Forward is an interview series featuring people with disabilities sharing perspectives, insights, and experiences produced by Ampers.
The series explores what's better and what needs improvement for people with disabilities since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Together we keep moving toward full access and inclusion in all aspects of life.
This project is supported by the Minnesota Council on Disability, Ampers, the Minnesota Humanities Center, and the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
Photo credit: Krish Kiefer
Posters
Here are the Keep Moving Forward posters for you to use. MCD distributes posters at the State Fair, at conferences and at community events. The posters are great for education, art, disability awareness work, and much more.
We hear that folks have seen MCD posters in schools, doctors' offices, libraries, state agencies, and businesses, to name a few.
Let us know if you'd like use to send you (via US Mail) hard copies of these posters by emailing Linda Gremillion. Make sure to let us know how many posters you'd like.
Enjoy these posters, we're very pleased to offer them. We send our gratitude to all the Keep Moving Forward participants for lending their image and their stories to this important project.
Note: The videos on this page will autoplay on YouTube when opened.
Margot Imdieke Cross: Life Before The ADA
Margot Imdieke Cross recalls what life was like before the ADA when she would ride a bus or needed to use a restroom, and how we need to safeguard the right to access.
Life Before the ADA (closed captioned)
Life Before the ADA (audio described)
Life Before the ADA (transcript)
Sherry Bartholomew: Start A Conversation
Having a mental health disability - people don't see it, people don't understand hidden disabilities. The more we are open about them, the more they're going to be understood.
Ask us questions. Start a conversation. Conversations will get us closer to that holy grail of equality.
Start A Conversation (closed captioned)
Start A Conversation (audio described)
Start A Conversation (transcript)
Karen Thorud: Everybody Has A Disability
Everybody has something that they can't do well.
People with disabilities were made to not give up. If at first, you don't succeed, try, try again.
Everybody Has A Disability (closed captioned)
Everybody Has A Disability (audio described)
Everybody Has A Disability (transcript)
Kate Eifrig: Reaching True Parity
What almost anybody with mental illness will tell you is one of the frustrating things is its invisibility.
If we reach true parity, it won't be called "mental health," it will just be called "health."
Reaching True Parity (closed captioned)
Reaching True Parity (audio described)
Reaching True Parity (transcript)
Ben McCarthy: I'm Gonna Show Them What I Can Do
There's an opportunity for everyone. If you let them try, you're gonna always learn something new from a person with a disability that you never thought they could do.
I'm Gonna Show Them What I Can Do (closed captioned)
I'm Gonna Show Them What I Can Do (audio described)
I'm Gonna Show Them What I Can Do (transcript)
John Riddle: It's Hard To Accomplish Things
I used to be an artist before my injury, so it's been a process to learn how to do the things I used to be able to do … because my hand shakes. But it is very rewarding to see the finished piece.
It's Hard To Accomplish Things (closed captioned)
It's Hard To Accomplish Things (audio described)
It's Hard To Accomplish Things (transcript)
Christine Morgan: Hearing Loss Is An Invisible Disability
Hearing loss is an invisible disability; we don't use a wheelchair, we don't use a white cane, we don't have dark glasses. "Oh, but you do so well." Well, I'm doing well because I'm looking at you, but the moment you turn your back and speak in a different direction, I'm not doing so well.
Hearing Loss Is An Invisible Disability (closed captioned)
Hearing Loss Is An Invisible Disability (audio described)
Hearing Loss Is An Invisible Disability (transcript)
Mai Thor: It's All Part Of The Human Condition
Mai Thor doesn't equate every person she meets with their physical appearance. She thinks it's important to find out who people truly are.
It's All Part Of The Human Condition (closed captioned)
It's All Part Of The Human Condition (audio described)
It's All Part Of The Human Condition (transcript)
Master Hinkle: You Can Always Try
You can't do everything you want because there are limitations. There are physical limitations, there are mental limitations. But you can always try. You can't always do, but you can always try. I think that's the biggest thing I want to get across to people.
You Can Always Try (closed captioned)
You Can Always Try (audio described)
You Can Always Try (transcript)
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Sponsors
This work is funded in part by a grant from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. The Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants Program is made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
