Why isn’t anyone listening to the disability community when it warns about the future abuses of the Trump Administration?
Connecting the dots: Trump and disability
Tag: disablism
Blogging Against Disablism: Racialised disability employment numbers
Why are disabled people of colour, especially Black people, so much more likely to be unemployed?
Why are you using -isms to criticise people for engaging in -isms?
If the only way you can criticise someone is through the use of -isms, check yourself. How does your rhetoric enforce injustice?
Disabled people are scared of Trump but leaving the country isn’t the answer
Telling disabled people to ‘just leave the country’ is not an appropriate response to their fears about the Trump Administration.
Before you ‘help’ disabled people, check yourself
People often think they’re doing a great service by helping disabled people who appear to be in distress, but they should ask first — and never touch without content.
Don’t lie to disabled children
Lying to children about the nature of their disabilities and illnesses is insulting, infantalising, and harmful. Children deserve to play a role in their medical decisions.
Will security cameras make special ed classrooms safer?
Texas has a security camera law for special education classrooms with the goal of preventing abuse — will it work?
On ignorance and the belief that disability is worse than death
The notion that disability is worse than death is perpetuated by the lack of information about disability in the mainstream.
Stop leaving disability out of your utopia
Visions of utopia never include disabled people. The people who create and consume those visions should probably ask why that is.
Why treat disability as a failure on television?
In medical dramas, disability is always represented as a failed outcome. What if we changed that framing?