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Ly Xīnzhèn is an androgynous and transmasculine East Asian person in their early thirties. They have short black hair with light highlights and they’re wearing a blue top with an abstract pattern, a handmade watermelon pin, and a silver magen david necklace.

Posted December 15, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

Not Just Gus Walz: Understanding the Ableist Logic of Toxic White Masculinity in the New Eugenics Era

Not Just Gus Walz: Understanding the Ableist Logic of Toxic White Masculinity in the New Eugenics Era Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn Content notes: Mention of IQ, ableist slurs … Continue Reading Not Just Gus Walz: Understanding the Ableist Logic of Toxic White Masculinity in the New Eugenics Era

Posted November 11, 2024 Sponsored post

Help Shape San Francisco’s Accessible Future

Help Shape San Francisco’s Accessible Future Alice Wong When I first moved to San Francisco over 25 years ago for grad school, I was excited yet intimidated. … Continue Reading Help Shape San Francisco’s Accessible Future

A graphic with a dark blue background and in the center is a photo of Jessica Murray, a middle-aged white woman, with curly red hair and a determined look on her face.

Posted July 14, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

Backing Out of Congestion Pricing Hurts New Yorkers with Disabilities the Most

Backing Out of Congestion Pricing Hurts New Yorkers with Disabilities the Most Jessica Murray In early June, Governor Kathy Hochul decided to pull out of a years-long plan … Continue Reading Backing Out of Congestion Pricing Hurts New Yorkers with Disabilities the Most

Sarah, a white woman with brown hair pulled back, smiling at the camera. She is wearing a green blazer and navy blouse.

Posted March 3, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

#AltTextPalestine: Showing Solidarity By Creating Access

#AltTextPalestine: Showing Solidarity By Creating Access Sarah Blahovec Images and videos coming out of Gaza show the horror of the genocide every single day. Bombs rain down on … Continue Reading #AltTextPalestine: Showing Solidarity By Creating Access

Image of Faati, a nonbinary light brown skinned Black Native, sitting cross legged in front of a cherry blossom tree and multiple high rise buildings. They have on acid washed light blue bell-bottom jeans, a white crop topped long sleeved shirt and black platform boots. They are sitting cross-legged with their hands on their knees. Their fingernails are a long almond acrylic style with nude coloring and black and white designs on top. They have green straight 70s styled hair with the ends bumped. They are wearing circle 70s style red lens sunglasses.

Posted February 26, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

#AltTextPalestine—from Ableist Shame to Indigenous Solidarity (I Know Why the Caged Nerd Reads)

#AltTextPalestine—from Ableist Shame to Indigenous Solidarity (I Know Why the Caged Nerd Reads) Faatima Vasser Hey bunch of strangers on the internet, I wet the bed until … Continue Reading #AltTextPalestine—from Ableist Shame to Indigenous Solidarity (I Know Why the Caged Nerd Reads)

Graphic with a green background. In the center is a photo of Moments Cooperative and Community Space members Samantha and D posing outside the bookstore entrance wearing black KN95 masks. They are leaning against a cart of books for sale. Next to them is an A-Frame reading “Moments Cooperative and Community Space. Books. Zines. Art. Residencies. Open Fri-Sat 12-6. IG: @Moments.co.op.”Behind them in the window reads “FREE PALESTINE.” Photo by Brian Ringo, 2023.

Posted January 1, 2024 Guest Blog Posts

We Keep Us Safe: Bay Area Businesses Practicing Community Care

We Keep Us Safe: Bay Area Businesses Practicing Community Care Heather Ringo As of December 2023, society has largely abandoned disabled people to COVID. This includes most businesses … Continue Reading We Keep Us Safe: Bay Area Businesses Practicing Community Care

A group of a dozen adults, including some people using white canes, manual and power wheelchairs, cross a sidewalk in Seattle Washington. The sky is grey and everyone is bundled up in warm clothes. There are apartment buildings on either side of the street, and trees without leaves.

Posted December 2, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

Robotaxis Won’t Get Us There, So Let’s Stop Being Used to Sell a Future that Doesn’t Serve Us

Robotaxis Won’t Get Us There, So Let’s Stop Being Used to Sell a Future that Doesn’t Serve Us Cecelia Black and Anna Zivarts Transportation is one of the biggest barriers … Continue Reading Robotaxis Won’t Get Us There, So Let’s Stop Being Used to Sell a Future that Doesn’t Serve Us

Color photograph of Beatrice Adler-Bolton, simple portrait photo of a pale, freckled white woman with natural red to dyed orange long wavy hair, wearing round gold rimmed glasses and a black t-shirt in front of a white background.

Posted April 9, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

“Mask off at the door” policies undermine our rights as disabled people

“Mask off at the door” policies undermine our rights as disabled people Beatrice Adler-Bolton In early March, as the third anniversary of Covid-19 passed unnoticed by many, comments … Continue Reading “Mask off at the door” policies undermine our rights as disabled people

Rasheera Dopson, MPH, a Black woman with medium-dark brown hair. She is wearing a sleeveless blue and white checkered top, with a silver necklace, wearing red lipstick and smiling.

Posted January 10, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

Black Women Leaders and Disability Justice

Black Women Leaders and Disability Justice Rasheera Dopson, MPH In most traditional images and coverage of political leadership, Black women are not the faces that come to mind. Leadership … Continue Reading Black Women Leaders and Disability Justice

Many, many workers with picket signs reading "UAW: On Strike: Unfair Labor Practice". They are crowded together outdoors and in the sea of faces there appears to be only one worker wearing a surgical mask. Photo by: Ian Castro. 2022. Provided on FairUC Now Website for Press Use

Posted January 7, 2023 Guest Blog Posts

Shoved From the Ivory Tower

Shoved From the Ivory Tower: Disabled Graduate Students Crushed Between the University of California & Their Union Heather Ringo and Julia Métraux On November 29th, 2022, over 200 … Continue Reading Shoved From the Ivory Tower

A young, white disabled woman with long dark hair, standing outside and looking off to the side, wearing light blue sunglasses and a white t-shirt with a small black walking stick design and a black sleeveless jumpsuit over the shirt.

Posted July 24, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology

Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology Mary Frances Layden Sometimes a cocktail just takes the edge off. During lockdown, in the early days of … Continue Reading Taking the Edge Off: Navigating an Ableist Pandemic Through Mixology

Graphic with a black background featuring a photo of Thomas Reid, a brown skin Black man with a clean-shaven bald head and full neat beard, smiles into the camera. He wears dark shades and a black and white checkered button up shirt.

Posted April 12, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy

Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy Thomas Reid When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the world changed … Continue Reading Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy

Posted February 6, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions

February 17, 2022 update: press release by Disabled Student Union and UCLA Student Body President Breeze Velasquez. We, the Disabled Student Union, the Mother Organizations Coalition, and Undergraduate … Continue Reading Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions

$Graphic with a leaf green background. Left: A white woman with short hair and an occluded cataract on her right eye wearing purple hearing aids and a pearl necklace, looking with raised eyebrows at camera between trees. Photo credit: Lis Mitchell, 2021. Right: Cover image of Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson. From the letter “I” in “BEING,” the color of Elsa’s cataract refracts in a rainbow-colored prismatic effect over a dark background. “Deafblind” is emphasized with light.$

Posted October 24, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays