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21 April, 201629 January, 2016

The power of the disability vote in 2016

A California ballot, with Senator Barbara Boxer's bubble filled in.
Posted in disability, politics by s.e. smith

Disability is a funny beast. At the same time that some 20 percent of the population identifies with some degree of disability, the spectrum of what is, and isn’t, disability is hugely varied depending on impairment an individual experience. One person with depression considers herself disabled. Another does not. A wheelchair user is different from […]

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3 September, 201515 June, 2015

Disability and rape on the hospital ward

The foot of a hospital bed
Posted in disability by s.e. smith

Content note: This piece discusses rape and sexual assault in medical contexts, though not in graphic detail.  Reading statistics on rape and disability is sometimes akin to being plunged into a pit of fire for me. The statistics are so grim, even in their poorly collected and maintained state, as to boggle the mind. Broadly […]

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