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Accessibility and the Lack Thereof in the Film Industry Carolyn Hinds Being a Black woman means there isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t worry that … Continue Reading Accessibility and the Lack Thereof in the Film Industry
20 Questions for Disability-Inclusive Employers Aubrie Lee We deserve better We deserve the best We deserve to get out of bed We deserve to rest We deserve to work … Continue Reading 20 Questions for Disability-Inclusive Employers
“We were maybe not going to save the world, but we were going to save each other.¹”: How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different Than Abled Mutual Aid Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha … Continue Reading How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different Than Abled Mutual Aid
High-Risk Vaccine Hesitancy Brianne Benness At this time last year, I didn’t know what to do about the flu vaccine. We were already in the thick of the pandemic: grieving … Continue Reading High-Risk Vaccine Hesitancy
Supercrips, Solidarity, and Crip Families in The Bad Batch Dr. Johnathan Flowers Content notes: eugenics, applied behavioral analysis, torture, genetic manipulation, ableist terminology Spoilers below for The Bad Batch season … Continue Reading Supercrips, Solidarity, and Crip Families in The Bad Batch
Moving From Survival Sandy Ho Editor’s note: This op-ed by the author was recently rejected by The New York Times’ (NYT) opinion section. In the midst of the … Continue Reading Moving From Survival
Major Keys Britney Wilson In my sophomore year of high school I was nominated to attend the National Young Leaders Conference (NYLC) in Washington, D.C. The four-day conference … Continue Reading Major Keys
Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire Qudsiya Naqui Content notes: ableist and sanist language, eugenics, suicide, medical neglect, suffering, abuse, violence, incarceration I first became interested … Continue Reading Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire
We Move Together: Interview with Kelly Fritsch Megan Linton We Move Together is a joyful new children’s book about disability community and culture. In conversation with one of the … Continue Reading We Move Together
Pride Feelings J. Logan Smilges By the time this essay goes live, the United States will have emerged from LGBTQ Pride Month into Disability Pride Month. Most years I … Continue Reading Pride Feelings
Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue Jane Shi Content notes: child abandonment, abusive adoptive parents, anti-Asian violence and misogyny, mass shooting, ableist slurs and language, forced restraint of autistic people, … Continue Reading Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue
Disability, Death & the Fight for Justice Disability Justice in Canada amidst a time of pandemic Megan Linton Content notes: genocide, systemic ableism, medical aid in dying, eugenics, institutionalization, … Continue Reading Disability, Death & the Fight for Justice
The Graduate By Anna Landre, Madeleine Gibbons-Shapiro, & the Georgetown University Disability Studies Class of 2021 To commemorate and reflect upon our college graduation, members of the Georgetown University … Continue Reading The Graduate tarot card
The New National Mental Health Crisis Line Wants to Track Your Location L. Harris Content warnings: Police violence against mad and disabled people; involuntary mental health interventions … Continue Reading The New National Mental Health Crisis Line Wants to Track Your Location
The System is Down: The Ableism of Texas’ Power Grid, Covid Response, and Disability Representation Adam Hubrig On February 15, 2021 around the tenth hour without power in my … Continue Reading The System is Down
Social media can be overwhelming and aggravating at times. I’ve also learned and appreciated being connected with so many amazing disabled people online that I would never get the chance … Continue Reading What the Disabled Community offered the world