“Tobeas sad as you want to be, to disconnect from your people’s pain — these are luxuries,” says Shatha Abusrour, a disability rights activist based in Bethlehem in the West Bank who coordinates ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alice Wong, a visionary leader in disability justice and culture, died from an infection on November 14 in San Francisco. She was ...

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The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Only some 40 percent of disabled people are employed. But even that low figure is ...

It’s Memorial Day in America — a moment of remembrance observed since after the Civil War for those U.S. military personnel who made the ultimate sacrifice to defend our fundamental freedoms. Yet in ...

In our All Access issue, we're spotlighting how the disability community is making the outdoors more accessible for everyone. Explore the package here. For Syren Nagakyrie, "for us, by us" isn't just ...

Deportation practices in the USA continue to undermine the communication and disability rights of asylum seekers with disabilities, especially deaf individuals, causing serious health consequences and ...

Friends, family and colleagues gathered on Saturday to remember Patty Berne, a primary architect of the disability justice movement and co-founder of the performance group Sins Invalid. Berne died on ...

Federal officials are suing ride-sharing giant Uber, accusing the company and its drivers of refusing to serve people with disabilities. In a lawsuit filed Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice ...

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Diversity Equity Accessibility and Inclusion (DEAI) Collection DSI "Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, the memoir Dirty River, ...