Disability Thinking Weekday - May 2026 Recap
Here is look back at May's Disability Thinking Weekday links. They are sorted into three topic categories — Disability Life & Culture, Politics, Policy & Activism, and Practical Information, plus Videos.
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Disability Life & Culture
- Couple Plan 400-Acre Neighborhood For Adults With Disabilities
- Who gets to speak for mothers of autistic children?
- A Denver music icon saw herself on a bus. She wasn’t happy
- ‘People assume we’re grifters’: disabled Britons report rise in abuse over blue badges
- Finding my armour in threads
- A Story About Disabled Dignity
- Fine. I'll Say It. I'm Inspiring.
- The Met Gala's Inclusion of Disabled People Proves Fashion Can't Exist Without Body Diversity
- Accessibility 200
- Near death experiences, ‘crip memes’ and the tyranny of the DWP: the new exhibition powered by illness and disability
- What ‘Special Needs Mommy’ Influencers Get Wrong About Parenting Disabled Kids: Opinion
Politics, Policy & Activism
- As States Implement Medicaid Community Engagement Requirements, Due Process Safeguards Loom Large
- Disabled woman feels 'penalised' for wanting to work
- FDA May Finally Make It Illegal to Shock Autistic Kids as Punishment
- Disability Voting News: May 6, 2026
- What To Do About Medicaid’s Long-Term Care Benefit?
- Home and Community Based Services Impacts Tracker Project
- A bill would explore making NH a ‘technology first’ state on disability. Here’s what that means.
- How A Coalition Of Retail Giants Is Rewriting Accessibility Standards
- Employment of people with disabilities declines but remains near all-time high
- The US could soon make it easier to execute people with intellectual disabilities
- How a legal challenge over gender dysphoria became a fight for disability rights
- The Populist Paralympian Who Wants to Roll Into the Senate
- Xinhua Headlines-Xi Focus: Chinese president inspires disabled people on path toward shared future
- State disability support, Medicaid spending hit the most by Kemp vetoes
- Access Living Wins Major Civil Rights Lawsuit Against the City of Chicago
- Supreme Court dismisses death penalty case on people with mental disabilities
- Parents push back after Chapel Hill yearbook omits 12 students with disabilities
- Native kids with disabilities were held in wooden boxes. Sweeping reforms are coming
Practical Information
Videos
- If we want real change...
- 3 Life Hacks That Make Independent Living Possible for Me | Transportation, Food, Cleanliness
- Was This Random Lady Rude To Shane? Opinions Needed!
- Things nobody tells you about becoming disabled
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