In the face of the escalating climate crisis, a New Jersey organization has created a replicable shelter simulation model that makes temporary housing more inclusive for disabled people.
Disability Justice
Opinion | California | Disabled Children | Medi-Cal | Disabled Youth | Home and Community Based Alternatives Waiver
What good is a waiver program intended to help families access in-home care for medically fragile children if the program is full?
Parents of disabled children are increasingly connecting with each other to help navigate the complex medical, social, and support systems they must access to care for their kids.
Solitude can create something new out of the process of decay.
Despite years of progress, Hollywood is still majority white, male, and able-bodied, especially in leadership. A new effort is trying to seed the industry with more disabled people, especially disabled Black women creatives.
Access to electrical power during outages is an equity issue for low-income California residents, especially those with children who rely on medical devices.
Faced with a national shortage of nurses, children with disabilities or chronic illnesses in California are unable to access the home nurses to which they’re entitled by the state. Advocates say the problem is fixable.
More than 30 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the burden of enforcement often still falls on disabled people and their families.
“The Future Is Disabled” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha moves much-needed conversations on disability and mutual aid into the spotlight while pushing readers to confront their preconceived ideas about who belongs in the future.
The intersection of disability rights and abortion rights is complex.
Four primary solutions to address the specific needs of survivors with disabilities.
The shortage highlights an ongoing, systemic failure to ensure vulnerable children have secure access to medically necessary, life-supporting products and equipment.
Everyone has the right to pleasure. But without disability justice, pleasure is a privilege.
What does creativity look like on the spectrum? We asked four autistic artists to show us how they would like to be seen.
The basic human rights of proper health care and opportunities through work should be available to everyone.
Don’t forget the plastic that gives me freedom.
Despite harsh, discriminatory conditions, countless deaf women fought with brilliance and dedication for personal and professional recognition, including for the right to vote.
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