The De-voiced Black Disabled Activist

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" Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin Image of the author in...

Death Without Dignity: The Inevitable Consequences of Maryland's End-of-Life Option Act

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"Life, although it may be only  an accumulation of anguish, i s dear  to me;  and I will defend it." MARY SHELLEY Nearly one yea...

Autistic While Black: The Erasure of Blacks From Histories of Autism

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Autistic Savant Artist Stephen Wiltshire completing a panoramic cityscape  from memory credit Atlantic BlackStar In the struggle to have the...

Flowers v Gopal: Ugly Laws, Amistad, Blind Tom Wiggins, & The Legal View of Autistic People

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"From the late 1860s until the 1970s, several American cities had ugly laws making it illegal for persons with "unsightly or disgu...

At The Intersection of Appropriation and Erasure In Activism

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Alicia Garza  stands with the words Black Lives Matter taped over her mouth to represent the erased voices of female  and female identifying...