America Is Not Ready for Disability Disaster Response in the Coming Hurricane Season
FEMA and the Red Cross talk a good game, but the disability community is skeptical.
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Banning Straws Won’t Save the Oceans
Instead of shaming disabled consumers who rely on straws, let's hold producers of plastic financially responsible for their waste.
‘We Are Desperately in Need of Seeing Ourselves’: A Conversation With Nicola Griffith
Griffith's new novel is a thriller that also helps dismantle the idea that disability is necessarily tragic.
A Texas Principal and the Casual Criminalization of Race and Disability in Schools
School officials shouldn't joke about calling the cops on vulnerable children. They should also stop treating non-compliance as criminal.
Why Critics Say It’s Time to Abolish ICE
Critics argue that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is rotten to its very core.
How to Write Great Sci-Fi About Disability Law
John Scalzi's latest novel conjures a fantastical world where the plot revolves around the Americans With Disabilities Act—and it's gripping.
How ‘Deaf President Now’ Changed America
A brief history of the movement that transformed a university and helped catalyze the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Lawmakers Keep Making Schools More Dangerous for Vulnerable Children
Instead of decriminalizing our schools, too many teachers and school police continue to escalate.
Can Technology Really ‘Give Voice’ to Disabled People?
Beyond the hype and hyperbole, technologies largely thought to universally empower the "voiceless" are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.
Gerber’s New Spokesbaby Has Down Syndrome. So What?
Commercial images of cute white babies with Down syndrome aren't revolutionary anymore.