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 ...

Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment.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 ...

Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment.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 ...

Gen Z knows how to mobilise troops; they have reshaped conversations around body image, gender, and identity. They demand diverse representation from brands and influencers, and they hold people ...

Dasgupta is the author of “Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins” and a professor of medicine at Boston University. President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have characterized the rise ...

Last week President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States’ secretary of health and human services, held a press conference during which they linked use of the common pain reliever ...

The National Medical Commission (NMC)’s new interim guidelines on disability admissions have triggered sharp criticism from disability rights advocates, who have accused NMC of perpetuating systemic ...

During the community conversation, the group talked about people in power and those meant to help them didn't listen to their needs. Brisa Luzzi Castro of WHYY leads and moderates a Bridging Blocks ...

In 2023, I found myself in Las Vegas as much for work as I did for pleasure. Less than a month apart, I attended SHRM’s annual conference and Sick New World, a 2000s metal festival. As a Las Vegas ...

People in the community called the remarks dehumanizing and warned they could perpetuate harmful stigma. By Maggie Astor Azeen Ghorayshi and Dani Blum Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remarks this week that ...