To the casual observer, I look pretty “normal.” If you catch me walking down the street, you probably can’t tell I’m in pain, probably dizzy, a little more reliant on my maps app than I should have to ...
We meet many men who think that protecting women so that we “don’t have to worry our pretty little heads” about difficult things, like maths, is not sexist. Men and women are naturally different, they ...
Over the last two years of news coverage about the pandemic, there's been a creeping trend of characterizing the coronavirus’s effects on society — the labor shortage, the national debt, the infection ...
Words have power. This is also true of the words we use around disability. If you scroll through news articles about people with disabilities, you may see words or phrases like “stricken with multiple ...
ARC Research Fellow in Indigenous Health, Disability and Community Development, University of Sydney The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability ...
“Did you read that story in the Stanford Report about the affordable ‘smart cane’ that uses robotics? Wasn’t it cool?” Whenever articles about disability technology come out, I’m asked for my thoughts ...
Dessa Cosma is the executive director of Detroit Disability Power. Detroit Disability Power’s mission is to leverage and build the organizing and political power of the disability community to ensure ...
The state-sanctioned callous treatment of some of us as disposable has put everyone at risk. By Elliot Kukla Rabbi Kukla serves at the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center in San Francisco providing ...