October is Disability Employment Awareness Month, a time when we talk about job discrimination, show employers how much people with disabilities can contribute ...
Karin Willison, MA
At the IRT, a small performance space in New York City’s West Village, a small group of Deaf and hearing performers and crew pioneered a new vision for ...
On May 31, 2019, I saw Ali Stroker play Ado Annie in Daniel Fish’s dark reimagining of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic “Oklahoma” at the Circle in the ...
Robots are in the news a lot these days, especially robots for people with disabilities. In Japan, a café went viral for hiring people with disabilities to ...
The American Medical Association has finally acknowledged the racist roots of the BMI as a measure of healthy weight. Recently, the AMA released a statement ...
Alisa Michele
As a Black woman, medical AI scares me, and research indicates I should be afraid. When I go to the doctor, I expect to encounter a very knowledgeable ...
"Just Google it." Chances are you’ve used that phrase this week. Google has become a verb, the act of looking up something via search engine. Yet we often take ...
A sad reality of today’s world is that ableism runs rampant throughout society and many places of employment. The news that a Deaf man losing a job he was ...
Dawn Colclasure
Popular culture often misses the mark when it comes to autistic characters and storylines—when autistic representation is even present to begin with. Whether ...
LynneMeyer
The diabetes medication Ozempic has been repurposed as a weight loss drug. This is a dream come true for pharmaceutical companies and fat people alike. We have ...
For many years, the autism puzzle piece has been one of the most widely used symbols to represent those on the spectrum. Despite its widespread use, however, ...
Olivia Jayne
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released new clinical practice guidelines that doctors and parents need to target fat kids to prevent them from ...