A long-time, low-grade worry for people with disabilities has become a red alert in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Most disabled people at one time or another worry that we and our so-called ...
Fighting ableism is important. But it’s neither simple nor easy. It requires more than attending a disability awareness workshop or scanning a “disability etiquette” list. Some of what we have to do ...
In this op-ed, Haley Moss describes what "benevolent ableism" is, and how it can be a form of bullying. When I roamed my high school hallways, I was usually alone with my headphones in, or I was with ...
To the casual observer, I look pretty “normal.” If you catch me walking down the street, you probably can’t tell I’m in pain, probably dizzy, a little more reliant on my maps app than I should have to ...
Watts Belser is a rabbi, scholar, and spiritual teacher, as well as a longtime activist for disability, LGBTQIA+, and gender justice. She is the author of Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and ...
The artificial intelligence models underlying popular chatbots and content moderation systems struggle to identify offensive, ableist social media posts in English—and perform even worse in Hindi, new ...
Angel Dixon is affiliated with Attitude Foundation. Elizabeth Kendall, Katie Kelly, and Kelsey Chapman do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...
Panteha Abareshi, “(FOR PARTS)” (2020), digital edition one (all images courtesy the artist) “What does accessibility truly look like in the art space?” This is one of the questions that artist ...
When I explained to a physiotherapist one day that I had heard the tell-tale pop of my shoulder dislocating after getting up from the couch, his response was unexpected: "That didn't happen." He said ...
Trouble at work? Try putting on my shoes. Only one in every two disabled people has a job, and while I’m fortunately one of them, I do have something of a problem. My editor is a raging ableist (she’s ...