disability 
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
1/10/2023
John Fetterman and the Politics of Disability
by Anya Jabour
The personal became political for a historian who experienced disability similar to that affecting the new Pennsylvania senator on the campaign trail. The media must significantly readjust its framing of how disability impacts the ability to perform work.
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SOURCE: CNN
12/7/2022
Beyond Yale and Stanford, Colleges are Dropping the Ball on Student Mental Health
by David M. Perry
If two high profile incidents are any indication, many colleges seek to move students with mental health concerns off campus as quickly and quietly as possible, putting their own liability and reputation ahead of the needs of students for supportive community.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/13/2022
Will the Fetterman Campaign Teach Necessary Lessons About Disability Accommodations?
by David M. Perry
"There’s a long history of disabled Americans serving in high political office, but also an equally long history of both actual stigma and politicians hiding their disabilities over fear of stigma."
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SOURCE: Global Sport Matters
2/22/2022
Building a Fitness Culture with Inclusion and Creativity?
by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
What will it take for the culture of fitness and bodily health to draw in people with disabilities and push out narrow normative ideas of the ideal body?
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/11/2022
The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible
Veterans of post-9/11 wars are increasingly showing serious lung damage. Is the Pentagon concealing the role of "burn pits" in creating airborne toxins?
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SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
8/5/2020
The Forgotten History of How Accessible Design Reshaped the Streets
Long before the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 mandated curb cuts at all street corners, 30 years ago this summer, disabled people had pointed to the design of the street as a key locus of their political rights — the sidewalk that stands for being in public space, and therefore in the public sphere.
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SOURCE: Georgia Public Broadcasting
7/27/2020
One Laid Groundwork For The ADA; The Other Grew Up Under Its Promises
Judy Heumann and Imani Barbarin represent two generations of disability activists: those who helped to bring about the Americans with Disabilities Act and those who are now working to secure its gains and improve its shortcomings.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
7/22/2020
‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: 16 Moments in the Fight for Disability Rights
The disability civil rights movement has many distinct narratives, but the prevailing themes are of community, justice and equity.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
7/26/2020
We’re 20 Percent of America, and We’re Still Invisible
On the 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, disabled Americans are asking for true inclusion.
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The Challenges of Writing Histories of Autism
by Jonathan Rose
And how historians might overcome those obstacles.
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