Smart Ass Cripple: Whose Lives Are Worth Saving?
COVID-19 reminds us that people with disabilities are often treated as expendable. Those attitudes are what really make me feel vulnerable. They can be as lethal for disabled folks as COVID-19.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: When a Good Name Is Not Enough
The Keeping All Students Safe Act seems like something everyone would support, so why is there opposition to it?
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: Madison Cawthorn Is Not My Wheelchair Brother
If Cawthorn carries his campaign image and agenda to Congress, it would be better for disabled folks if he wasn’t there at all.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: Hail to the 20th Amendment!
Without this update made to the U.S. Constitution in 1933, we’d be stuck with Trump as President for an additional forty-three days.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: Zoom’s Inaccessibility for Hard-of-Hearing and Deaf Users
The video-chat platform is facing a federal lawsuit for charging a monthly fee to folks who need closed captioning.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: Speaking Up for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Biden’s sign language interpreters let everyone in on the daily dreck.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: Biden’s Low Priority, Our High Hopes
It’s still disturbing that disability rights was an afterthought for the Biden campaign.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: My Bad Case of Vaccination Envy
I’m not trying to crash the line. I’m just trying to claim my rightful place in it.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: Amtrak’s History of Dodging Access Laws
The service was given two decades to become fully accessible after the signing of the ADA. It’s been more than thirty years, and it’s not even close.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: #NotAllMenInWheelchairs
Thanks to Republicans Madison Cawthorn and Greg Abbott, white guys in wheelchairs are getting a bad rap.
View ArticleDisabled People and COVID-19
As the United States lifts COVID-19 restrictions, disabled people are reminded that the country views us as disposable.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: You Fall, You Fail
Biden tripped while boarding Air Force One. His ability to be President is now being questioned.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: The Right Way to Protest
What jazzes me up are protests designed to get in the bad guy’s face.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: I’ll Vote How I Damn Well Please
There’s a thrill that comes with voting in person, but we’re at a point where many of us will benefit from voting by mail—assuming we’re allowed to.
View ArticleThe Promise of Public Housing
No one should have to choose between housing that is unaffordable and housing that is uninhabitable.
View ArticleThe Lasting Impact of Eugenics: An Interview with Audrey Clare Farley
The writer and historian discusses her new book and the politics and history of the eugenics movement.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: Pot, Politics, and Tegridy
With a cannabis-themed auction, Colorado’s Disability Funding Committee is raising money for the disabled community.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: The Great Infrastructure Debate
One lawmaker’s idea of infrastructure is another lawmaker’s idea of a frivolous socialist scheme to bankrupt the United States.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: Why the ADA was Naive
You’d think that more than thirty years after the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, there’d be no more closed doors for disabled folks. That isn’t the case.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: Defund the Nursing Homes
The pandemic has made clear that people in nursing homes are extremely vulnerable and that something needs to be done about it.
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