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8/1/25 - Disability Thinking Weekday’s 2nd Anniversary
Two years! Two years ago today, I posted the first issue of my new disability-themed newsletter, Disability Thinking Weekday. I started out with a few legacy subscribers from my first attempts at a newsletter. As of today, there are over 1,300 subscribers, including 38 who help sustain this project
7/30/25 - The 35th ADA Anniversary
Belated happy anniversary! Last Saturday was the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. So I'm again playing a little catch-up on articles written about it. These three should do. If other interesting takes crop up in the next week or so, I'll share them
7/29/25 - LGBTQI+, influencers, and ICE
Good afternoon ... Today's links are left over from last week. So they aren't necessarily timely. But hopefully they are interesting. This newsletter isn't just about urgent and enraging headlines. The State of Disabled LGBTQI+ People in 2024 Mia Ives-Rublee, Casey Doherty, Haley Norris, Center
7/28/25 - Forced institutionalization
Good afternoon! During this newsletter's short, unplanned absence last week, President Trump ordered an initiative to increase forced institutionalization of mentally ill and addicted people. There are still more journalistic articles and organization statements coming out about this. But here are three pieces that provide something of an
7/25/25 - Friday Video Share: Long Road Home
Sorry about missing the last two days. My life got oddly busy in ways I wasn't expecting. Things are a little more relaxed again, so here's a video for this Friday, suggested by a subscriber ... Long Road Home Vimeo - April 9, 2024 Shared by paid
7/22/25 - Home care, pregnancy, and the R-word
Good afternoon ... Today's theme seems to be disability issues that have to be re-explained and re-litigated over and over, every few years. Each time, it is surprising and dispiriting that it seems like there is virtually no carry-over progress from the previous time. We have to make the
7/21/25 - A conference, accessibility warning signs, and a step back on air travel
Good morning! I hope everyone has a good week. Here are three disability links to get us started ... Subscribe or Upgrade NCIL Annual Conference - Level Up: Building Tomorrow Together - Updates National Council on Independent Living - July 21, 2025 "NCIL’s 2025 conference theme, Level Up: Building
7/18/25 - Friday Video Share: Crip Camp
I looked back and found that I haven't posted any video here about the 2020 Netflix documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution before. The film is almost five years old now. But it's still probably the best introduction to the modern disability rights movement for a
7/17/25 - Basic accessibility
Come on in! Let's take a break, of sorts. Let's revisit an old, familiar, and somewhat less intense and confusing part of disability activism and culture – accessibility. The ongoing, probably never-ending effort to make more and more of our public spaces and businesses physically accessible feels
7/16/25 - Medicaid, sub-minimum wage, and immigrant rights
Good afternoon ... There's not much feel good stuff today's newsletter. But can't entirely look away from the hits and threats disabled people are taking right now from the outside. And we must not forget the dangers we ourselves sometimes pose to each other, or
7/15/25 - Ways of thinking about "Disability Pride"
Hello! Every July, at least for the last ten years or so, those of us who spend time thinking, talking, and writing about disability try again to define what disability pride means for disabled people, and what "Disability Pride Month" is for. It's always difficult to