Disability groups are standing united for trans rights. That hasn’t always been the case.

Forty years ago, disability advocates abandoned the LGBTQ+ community in exchange for legal protections. Decades later, they ...
The Durango Herald

Like the civil rights movement, disability rights movement persists

On Monday, we will celebrate the life and work of one of the most well-known and influential leaders of the civil rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of a group of leaders of the ...
9NEWS

Disability rights history unveiled inside Denver mini-museum

DENVER — A small museum tucked inside the offices of Atlantis Community Inc. is working to preserve and share the largely untold history of the disability rights movement in Denver nearly five decades ...
The Daily Californian

Grandmother of disability rights movement Zona Roberts dies at 104

Zona Roberts, recognized as the “grandmother of the disability rights movement” has died at the age of 104. Described as “the embodiment of fierce love” by Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda, the executive ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Why Your College Should Join the Intellectual-Disability Movement

For more than 30 years, a movement has been underway in the United States to create campus programs for students with intellectual disabilities to pursue higher education and reap learning and career ...
YES! Magazine

Cop City Is a Disability Justice Issue, Too

Disability justice activists are joining grassroots efforts to shut down Atlanta’s Cop City, the largest police training campus in the U.S. When then-Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced in ...
MassLive

Let’s join movement to update how we depict disability (Viewpoint)

Views expressed here represent those of the author and not necessarily of MassLive or The Republican. Readers are invited to share their opinions by emailing to letters@repub.com. As someone who ...
KPFA

To Be a Problem: The Racist Disability Rights Movement w/ Dara Baldwin

We’ll speak with Dara Baldwin, author of the new book, To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement. Dara is an activist, scholar, and author with over twenty ...
University of California

Meet Zona Roberts: The grandmother of the disability movement turns 103

Nowadays, people look back on the 1950s as the Happy Days, but for the kids who grew up during that time, it was anything but. Hovering over them were the twin terrors of The Bomb and a raging polio ...
Yahoo

Singer Lachi's New Book “I Identify as Blind” Defines Disability as a Cultural Movement — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

Lachi is telling her story. The musician, who was born legally blind, is set to release her memoir I Identify as Blind: A Brazen Celebration of Disability Culture, Identity and Power in early 2026, ...
Community Care

Social work across the decades: how the disability movement reshaped social care

This article on social work in the 1990s is the third in a five-part series by Professor Ray Jones for Community Care's 50th anniversary. Each part will look back at key events from the previous five ...
AOL

Call-out for disability art movement contributors

A project has been launched in the hope of chronicling memories from the disability arts movement. Vici Wreford-Sinnott, from Saltburn, is helping to collect untold stories from people involved. She ...