By Drew Dakessian The disability justice movement has long had an unofficial slogan: “Nothing about us without us.” It asserts that the lived experience of disabled people is critical to policies that affect them and to stories that center…
Why People With Disabilities Don’t Want to Go “Back To Normal”
by Hailey Hudson As the vaccine rollout continues across the globe, our social media feeds are full of photos from cookouts, videos from vacations and status updates of being back in the office once again. Most people feel nothing but…
Why the #FreeBritney Movement Intersects with the Disability Rights Movement
By Sarah Kim While conservatorships have been around for decades, it was not until pop star Britney Spears’s ongoing conservatorship dispute made the headlines in early 2021 that such a concept came to be mainstream. The topic started to grab…