In popular imagination, racism and ableism are often problems of isolated individuals, people here and there who do or say bigoted things. Conversations about intersectionality—the ways different ...
TRADITIONALLY, women and gender-diverse people were less likely to be identified as autistic because they didn’t fit the ...
Why are LGBTQ youth so badass? Perhaps it’s the sheer volume of them — Gen Z indexes as the queerest generation to date, self-reporting at nearly 25% LGBTQ (Gallup, 2024). That fact alone brings the ...
My son Otto started preschool this fall. The previous year, during every daycare pickup, our reunion was routinely punctuated by the same questions from the other 3-year-olds in the room: Why are you ...
Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment. Approaches grounded in old medical and charity models of disability have long reinforced a status quo trapped in hundred ...
Some days, I walk into work without a visible mobility aid. Other days, I rely on a cane because of pain, how far I will have ...
For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never heard of: closing the large institutions that once warehoused people with ...
The wheelchair is a classic stigma-symbol. My contribution tries to extend an individualised, psychological perspective of wheelchair acceptance to a perspective of societal critique, by drawing upon ...