"Creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture"
A Twitter controversy over Covid-19 led to a culture of distrust and suppression within ACT UP New York Justine Barron The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power New … Continue Reading A Twitter controversy over Covid-19 led to a culture of distrust and suppression within ACT UP New York
Masking in healthcare is basic infection control. Why must vulnerable San Franciscans keep begging providers to take life-saving protections? Jillian Crochet and Britta Shoot We all know it … Continue Reading Masking in healthcare is basic infection control. Why must vulnerable San Franciscans keep begging providers to take life-saving protections?
I gave a short speech on April 16, 2024 in front of the San Francisco Department of Public at a protest organized by Senior and Disability Action. We called … Continue Reading Keep Masks in Health Care
#N95s4UCSF: Call to Action I’m alive, bitches! My recent column in Teen Vogue about the surge and its impact on me as a high risk disabled person became … Continue Reading #N95s4UCSF: Call to Action
Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon Alice Wong This summer marks my tenth year on the hellsite known as Twitter. I honed my voice as a writer, found community, and carved … Continue Reading Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon
Still On the Margins: Long COVID Patients of Color Angela Meriquez Vázquez, MSW Before getting COVID-19 here in Los Angeles in March 2020, I was a runner for nearly … Continue Reading Still On the Margins: Long COVID Patients of Color
When Public Health Doesn’t Listen to Its Own Lessons, How Can Students? Raina Levin Before I started my graduate program this fall, I was on a first name … Continue Reading When Public Health Doesn’t Listen to Its Own Lessons, How Can Students?
Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future Ingrid Tischer Reasons, I’ve got a few. But this still-current guidance from the CDC … Continue Reading Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future
What Will Never Be Again Jane Shi Content notes: suicide, genocide, deaths in long-term care, serophobia, medical abuse, labour exploitation, overdose deaths Dionne Brand’s piercing article “On … Continue Reading What Will Never Be Again
Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore: It feels like I am seeing a guy stick his head into an alligator’s mouth … Continue Reading Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore
Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism Christine Mitchell I’m tired. We’re all tired, collectively. It has been a long two years of heightened anxiety and isolation … Continue Reading Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism
Since March 2020 I have been collecting strands of disabled wisdom about the pandemic and trying to gather, weave, and share them. Disabled, fat, older, poor, immunocompromised, and chronically ill … Continue Reading High-Risk Pandemic Stories: A Syllabus
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