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November 15, 2022
Was This Professor Fired for Having Tourette Syndrome?
We want to ensure harassment-free climates in schools and workplaces, and we want to protect the rights of people with disabilities. What happens when these imperatives collide?
Barry Yeoman
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September 1, 2022
Meet Sandy Morris, the ALS Heroine Hardly Anybody Knows
Anthony Fauci understood that making people like Sandy who are living with a disease part of the research process leads to better science. But the rest of the NIH still hasn’t gotten the message.
Gregg Gonsalves
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August 26, 2022
Rationing of Medical Equipment Is Costing Disabled People Their Lives
With the government refusing to make medicine and medical equipment accessible, sick, and disabled people have to rely on each other for support.
Nolan Trowe
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April 29, 2022
The Supreme Court Has Just Invented a New Way to Harass Vulnerable People
In a landmark ruling, the six conservatives ruled to limit people’s ability to recover damages after they’ve faced discrimination—thus making it easier to discriminate.
Elie Mystal
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April 20, 2022
Wheelchair Users Block the Seoul Subway as the Right Takes Power
The hostility of the conservative party has pushed the disability-rights movement to the center of a larger fight for minority groups in South Korea.
Lee Hyun Choi
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January 31, 2022
Dividing Up the Autism Spectrum Will Not End the Way You Think
The Lancet’s proposal to create a new label of “profound autism” serves only to distract us from the work of ensuring that all autistic people have everything they need to thrive.
Julia Bascom and David M. Perry
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August 24, 2021
Tokyo Hosts a Dangerous Paralympics in the Shadow of Covid
The Paralympics are supposed to be a celebration of people with disabilities. Instead, they will put many immunocompromised people at enormous risk.
Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
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July 16, 2021
Imagining a Better Way to Grow Old in America
If Americans approached aging and disability not as an individual crisis but as a collective responsibility, what kind of safety net could we build?
Bryce Covert
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July 16, 2021
Which Is the More Prescient Dystopia? ‘Gattaca’ or ‘Parable of the Sower’
Is it the 1997 film starring Ethan Hawke or is it Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel?
David M. Perry and Niela Orr
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July 15, 2021
For Women Under Conservatorship, Forced Birth Control Is Routine
Advocates were not surprised when Britney Spears said she wasn’t allowed to have her IUD removed. They’d heard similar stories before.
Sara Luterman