Tag: Disability

Sunaura Taylor on what the environmental and disability movements can learn from one another.

My son’s violent illness humbled my sense of control and transformed my understanding of what it means to parent.

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?

Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.

Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients—but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a redemptive tale about what is wrong with them.

The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this?

More than half of disabled people experience long-term poverty, increasing the chances of violent police encounters.

Struggles for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are two sides of the same coin.

What does solidarity look like when our bodies cannot come together, in public, to agitate for a better world?

The democratic value of dignity.

A conversation with Adam Feinstein.