Covid-19 hasn’t been the only catastrophe sweeping the country this year. Health experts say Americans are experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression made worse by pandemic-related stressors, including job loss, evictions, remote learning, travel restrictions and limits on gathering.
Continue reading Pandemic’s Toll On Mental Health Accentuated In Cities
The European Space Agency is diversifying its astronaut pool with its first call for astronauts that is open to candidates with physical disabilities.
Continue reading European Space Agency announces call for ‘parastronauts’ with disabilities
While most Covid-19 vaccination clinics around the country are focused primarily on first responders, essential workers and seniors, the city of Detroit is now offering shots to residents who haven’t made vaccination priority lists almost anywhere else in the country. Continue reading Detroit’s Covid vaccination queue is one of first to include people with ADHD, other disabilities
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It’s not “oversensitive,” or too “new” of a concern for organizations and businesses to take a hard look at reforming ableist language. Ableism itself is not a new phenomenon, even if “ableism” is a new word to some of us.
Continue reading It’s Time To Stop Even Casually Misusing Disability Words
Tech continues to play a larger and larger role in businesses and industries of all stripes. As companies bring on more and newer technology to help improve productivity, employees who were initially trained on older systems or who are new to a higher-tech workplace may struggle to keep up or even resist using the new tech at all.
Continue reading 13 Practical Ways To Help Employees Adapt To New Technology
The trailblazing social network Bumble has had a busy, history-making month, one that proves the female-focused company’s strategy is poised to shape the future of social media.
Continue reading Bumble Is Driving Powerful Change for Disabled Women Like Me
There’s an important question that may get too little attention in the world of disability services, activism, and culture. If we really care about people with disabilities and disability issues, we should all do better than just tossing pocket change in every fundraising bucket we see, or signing up for every walkathon a coworker’s kid puts in front of us.
Continue reading What To Look For In A Disability Organization
Some police departments around the country are expanding the use of voluntary registries of disabled people to include those with mental illness.
Continue reading Registries of Disabled People Debated in Police Reform Talks
Britney Spears is physically able-bodied, beautiful, and successful. It’s not what disability narratives have historically prized throughout the years.
Continue reading ‘Framing Britney Spears’ Doesn’t Bring Up Disability and That’s a Problem
As stars Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan belted out the national anthem at the Super Bowl, a trailblazing Gallaudet University graduate communicated the emotion, lyrics and rhythm to viewers in American Sign Language.
Continue reading DC-Area Man Signs National Anthem in American Sign Language at Super Bowl 55
