Tag: Disability rights
The Media, Disability, and Me
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December 14, 2023
Working in media has always been an uphill battle for disabled writers, but an ever-shrinking industry gives “hard” a whole new meaning.
Over the past decade, I thought I had finally figured out how to earn a living as a disabled person. I work as a speaker, a consultant, and an activist, but writing
The Future of Design Is Designing for Disability
August 1, 2023
Accessibility should not be a grudging afterthought. With planning, it can lead to elegant, beautiful, and engaging art.
Alice Sheppard, a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and short curly hair, crouches onstage, legs and wheels curled toward her core, arms reaching toward the camera. Dappled purple and blue lighting covers Sheppard and the floor, as a projection of white and yellow barbed wire extends from under her. She peers intently beyond the camera, eyebrows
When Death Is the Best Choice, Is It a Choice at All?
Can Americans Really Make a Free Choice About Dying?
On April 25, four disability rights organizations sued California state agencies and officials in an attempt to overturn the End of Life Option Act, a seven-year-old law that allows doctors to prescribe lethal medication to people who have six months or less to live.
The plaintiffs assert that the law violates the Americans With Disabilities Act and Section 504
Was This Professor Fired for Having Tourette Syndrome?
