The three co-partners of #CripTheVote, Gregg Beratan, Andrew Pulrang, and Alice Wong, recorded their oral history for the Disability Visibility Project™ on August 23, 2016 and uploaded it to the StoryCorps app.
The 2016 election was unprecedented in more ways than one. This oral history recalls the origins of #CripTheVote, a nonpartisan online movement activating and engaging disabled people on policies and practices important to the disability community.
Since this was a particularly long recording, below are 3 short audio clips with text transcripts. In the first clip, Gregg, Andrew, and Alice talk about the origins of #CripThe Vote during the 2016 Presidential election.
In the second clip, they talk about their social media activism on Twitter such as organized chats on disability issues, an online survey, and the creation of their hashtag.