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FORCED TO DIVORCE: AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES MUST PICK MARRIAGE OR HEALTH CARE
Susan approached her husband, heart thumping, as he sat in their living room. Days earlier, on Valentine’s Day, she had been diagnosed...


A US immigration history of white supremacy and ableism
Ableism and white supremacy form the foundational framework of US immigration policy. "[They] all have AIDS" - US President Donald Trump...


How America’s individualistic streak shaped design for disability
It’s perhaps predictable, in a country subscribed to a mythos of rugged individualism, frontier spirit, and all manner of...


Real Equity Means Including People With Disabilities in Philanthropy
This year, the United States will celebrate 29 years of civil-rights progress under the Americans With Disabilities Act. And yet the more...


I Dance Because I Can
The power of this art lies in our ability to view it outside assumed ideas about the body. My hands are cold, clammy. They always are...


As More Cities Implement Smart Technology, Experts Call for Inclusivity
Cities are growing at the fastest rate in human history — and so are the expectations being placed on them. For most, increasingly...


Disabled Docs – Healing the Medical Model?
It’s 1992 and the Americans with Disabilities Act is the new kid on the block. Jim Post, a 23-year-old C4-5 quad who recently graduated...


Free Monday Movies: Dan Habib Intelligent Lives
Monday, March 25, 2019 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Location: MSU Detroit Center (3408 Woodward Ave. Detroit, MI) (313) 578-9708 “Intelligent Lives”...


On Valentine’s Day, Let’s Recognize Why #AccessIsLove
Roses, chocolates, galentines…there is a lot of emphasis on love for people in our personal lives this time of year. I could cry into my...


Workshop: Beyond Inclusion to Liberation: Building Disability Justice
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 2 PM - 5 PM More info & register here Come to this crash course on disability justice- a movement building...


Disability Visibility Project
The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture....


Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Book Talk
Monday, February 18, 2019 6 PM Location: Source Booksellers (4240 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI) In their new collection of essays, Lambda...


The Survive the Trumpocalypse We Need Wild Disability Justice Dreams
Orignial Article This story is the tenth in Truthout’s “Visions of 2018” series, in which activist leaders answer the question: “What...


What's Really Keeping People with Disabilities Unemployed?
Original Article Sometimes the news isn’t as straightforward as it’s made to seem. Karin Willison, The Mighty’s disability editor,...


Disability Justice Collective
The Disability Justice Collective (DJC) is a national collective centering the lives and leadership of disabled people of color, Trans*,...


The Overlooked History of Black Disabled People
Black disability history matters because without us putting our voices and very bodies on the line, the political and societal strides...


Disability Justice Framework
Disability Justice is the cross-disability (sensory, intellectual, mental health/psychiatric, neurodiversity, physical/mobility,...


Sebastian Margaret on Intersectionality
2014 TJFP Panelist Sebastian Margaret speaks about the importance of disability justice and funding. Please help TJFP continue to...


Leaving Evidence a blog by Mia Mingus
We must leave evidence. Evidence that we were here, that we existed, that we survived and loved and ached. Evidence of the wholeness we...


Kimberly Crenshaw: The Urgency of Intersectionality
Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to...
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