Disability Thinking Weekday - September 2026 Recap
It's time to look back at September's Disability Thinking Weekday links. There aren't as many shared links this month. But as always, 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
- The Disability Tax
- I Thought I Understood Access Until We Reached the Slave Ships
- On Parenting and Consent: When Sharing Isn’t Caring
- No Way Down: How the Tragedy of 9/11 Redefined Disability Justice and Emergency Survival
- Being Heumann Review: The Disability Representation We've Been Waiting For
- What Accessibility Looked Like on the Set of FURIOUS
- Japan Autism Association raises ethical concerns over Mii-Chan and Miss Yamada anime for “turning vulnerable people into entertainment”
- I don't want your shock
- Disabled People Have Sex. Let's Talk About It.
- Ford, MacArthur, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Announce First-of-Its-Kind Credit Union for People with Disabilities
- DMA Shared Spaces
- New housing development opens in Broomfield for people with disabilities, but demand far exceeds available units
- The “Profound Autism” Label Hurts Autistic People
- Study Finds Using a Wheelchair Highly Preferable to Immobilizing Pain
- Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair
- I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse
Politics, Policy & Activism
- Defend Community Integration Coalition Statement on Texas v. Kennedy Proposed Joint Resolution
- America’s Special Ed Reckoning
- How freaked out should you be about Trump’s plot to disrupt mail voting?
- Opinion: Why Disability Access Must Be Central To NYC’s Housing Strategy
- On Labor Day, AAPD Strongly Condemns Department of Labor Actions Reversing Disability Employment Requirements for Federal Contractors
- 40 million eligible voters. One powerful week.
- The Promise We Made to Americans with Disabilities Is Under Attack
- For families of medically fragile children, a policy change threatens the care they need at home
- UK disabled people could swap Pip cash for "in kind" support in benefit overhaul
- #IWDeaf: Declaring Deaf People’s Human Rights
- Why AI Regulation Will Fail Without Disabled Oracles
- Texas v. Kennedy Abandons Federal Commitment to Community Integration
- Defend Community Integration Coalition
- For Disabled Americans, This Section 504 Ruling Is Personal
- ANCOR Condemns Administration for Efforts to Erode Community Inclusion Following Final Order in Texas v. Kennedy
- The military’s stance on disabled Americans no longer makes sense
Practical Information
- Medical Groups Issue Guidance on Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Shots
- Your Vote Counts: A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Voting in the U.S.
- Make Your Voting Plan Today
- How to Seek a Mentor
Videos
- "How to Take Care of Yourself When You're Sick"
- "We Are Pregnant!"
- "Alamo - 19 Films"
- "Our BABY Is Coming Soon ... Are We Ready?"
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