Ableism often arises from assumptions about what disability “looks like.” Seeing someone pushing a wheelchair instead of ...

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Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment.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

Ashley Wong, PharmD, is an experienced pharmacist and medical writer who translates medical and drug information into easily digestible language. Effect on memory: Benzodiazepines are known to affect ...

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 ...

Sibonokuhle Ndlovu receives funding from the University Research Council of the University of Johannesburg. “You speak good English for a Black person.” “Why are the plates not washed when there is a ...

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 ...

Social media users with disabilities are calling for more personalized and transparent moderation tools to combat the growing tide of online harassment, according to new Cornell research presented ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Pitt chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. Carl Hoffmann (he has asked me to change his name and the details of his ...

JMU commemorated this year’s Disability Advocacy Week theme of “Unlearning Ableism Together” with activist Imani Barbarin’s speech about the effects of ableism and the power of self-advocacy in ...

When I was a teenager, a professor my parents knew heard that I wanted to major in physics. Because I am blind, he told my parents that wouldn’t be possible: “Physicists,” he informed us, “have to be ...

Coauthored by Scott Frankowski, PhD, Nazanin Heydarian, PhD, and Kathleen Bogart, PhD A person in a wheelchair and a standing person hug. Source: Chona Kasinger / Disabled and Here / Creative Commons ...