#disabilityrights — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disabilityrights, aggregated by home.social.
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I just urged Congress to pass the Latonya Reeves Freedom Act (S.4865 / H.R.9401), which would protect the right of disabled people to live in our communities and receive care at home instead of being placed in institutions.
I'm writing this from a nursing home. I'm 34, blind, autistic, and multiply disabled — and I don't need this level of care. I'm here because community-based services weren't available to me. That's exactly what this bill is meant to fix.
If you believe disabled people should be able to live where we choose, please add your voice. It only takes a minute:
https://speak4.app/lp/g301tsla
#Olmstead #DisabilityRights #LatonyaReevesFreedomAct #IndependentLiving
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Steve Way appears in "Furious" as the character Alden who, like him, has physical disabilities that mean he needs a caregiver. He writes for his newsletter about the lie that disabled people are a burden, the fact that everyone needs care, and the economics of it all. "My care shows up as a line item. Yours is dispersed across a hundred transactions you don’t think about, most of them performed by people paid worse than they should be."
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When Speaking Up Feels Dangerous: We Need Community More Than Ever | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/when-speaking-up-feels-dangerous/Advocates have stopped asking whether their organizations move fast enough and started asking whether it is safe to speak up at all. The perceived cost of advocacy is rising. His answer is community, not bravado: courage should not require recklessness. Free livestreamed launch September 1.
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When Speaking Up Feels Dangerous: We Need Community More Than Ever | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/when-speaking-up-feels-dangerous/Advocates have stopped asking whether their organizations move fast enough and started asking whether it is safe to speak up at all. The perceived cost of advocacy is rising. His answer is community, not bravado: courage should not require recklessness. Free livestreamed launch September 1.
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When Speaking Up Feels Dangerous: We Need Community More Than Ever | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/when-speaking-up-feels-dangerous/Advocates have stopped asking whether their organizations move fast enough and started asking whether it is safe to speak up at all. The perceived cost of advocacy is rising. His answer is community, not bravado: courage should not require recklessness. Free livestreamed launch September 1.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeremy Grandstaff, Executive Director, The Inspiration Foundation | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-11-2026/Jeremy Grandstaff, six months into leading the Inspiration Foundation, on grants, the emerging Inspiration Seal, and a goal of raising the disability employment rate by 10% in five years - and why he walks to the podium with his cane, not escorted.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeremy Grandstaff, Executive Director, The Inspiration Foundation | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-11-2026/Jeremy Grandstaff, six months into leading the Inspiration Foundation, on grants, the emerging Inspiration Seal, and a goal of raising the disability employment rate by 10% in five years - and why he walks to the podium with his cane, not escorted.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeremy Grandstaff, Executive Director, The Inspiration Foundation | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-11-2026/Jeremy Grandstaff, six months into leading the Inspiration Foundation, on grants, the emerging Inspiration Seal, and a goal of raising the disability employment rate by 10% in five years - and why he walks to the podium with his cane, not escorted.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mindy Kolin, Director of Development & Industry Partnerships at Teach Access, and Kate Sonka, Executive Director
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-06-2026/Kate Sonka and Mindy Kolin on why Teach Access trains educators, not students: one faculty member reaches 50 to 100 students a semester. Its 2020 goal of 1 million students by 2030 passed 1.5 million in 2025 — and Teach Access Europe is next.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mindy Kolin, Director of Development & Industry Partnerships at Teach Access, and Kate Sonka, Executive Director
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-06-2026/Kate Sonka and Mindy Kolin on why Teach Access trains educators, not students: one faculty member reaches 50 to 100 students a semester. Its 2020 goal of 1 million students by 2030 passed 1.5 million in 2025 — and Teach Access Europe is next.
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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mindy Kolin, Director of Development & Industry Partnerships at Teach Access, and Kate Sonka, Executive Director
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-06-2026/Kate Sonka and Mindy Kolin on why Teach Access trains educators, not students: one faculty member reaches 50 to 100 students a semester. Its 2020 goal of 1 million students by 2030 passed 1.5 million in 2025 — and Teach Access Europe is next.
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This Is Your Invitation: Help Build a Community Where Everyone Belongs | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/help-build-a-community/Kirk Adams of ISDI invites everyone to help launch the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion, built by 60+ leaders tired of fighting the same battles alone.
Weeks from launch on Circle, it asks a GoFundMe gift of any size. Asked 'Where do I belong?': here.
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This Is Your Invitation: Help Build a Community Where Everyone Belongs | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/help-build-a-community/Kirk Adams of ISDI invites everyone to help launch the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion, built by 60+ leaders tired of fighting the same battles alone.
Weeks from launch on Circle, it asks a GoFundMe gift of any size. Asked 'Where do I belong?': here.
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This Is Your Invitation: Help Build a Community Where Everyone Belongs | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/help-build-a-community/Kirk Adams of ISDI invites everyone to help launch the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion, built by 60+ leaders tired of fighting the same battles alone.
Weeks from launch on Circle, it asks a GoFundMe gift of any size. Asked 'Where do I belong?': here.
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This Is Your Invitation: Help Build a Community Where Everyone Belongs | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/this-is-your-invitation/An open invitation from Dr. Kirk Adams: a place exists for anyone who believes everyone deserves dignity, belonging, and accessibility, 'whether you use the term DEI or not.' The Community Coalition launches soon. Give a gift of any size, or share it. 'Where do I belong?' Here.
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This Is Your Invitation: Help Build a Community Where Everyone Belongs | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/this-is-your-invitation/An open invitation from Dr. Kirk Adams: a place exists for anyone who believes everyone deserves dignity, belonging, and accessibility, 'whether you use the term DEI or not.' The Community Coalition launches soon. Give a gift of any size, or share it. 'Where do I belong?' Here.
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This Is Your Invitation: Help Build a Community Where Everyone Belongs | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/this-is-your-invitation/An open invitation from Dr. Kirk Adams: a place exists for anyone who believes everyone deserves dignity, belonging, and accessibility, 'whether you use the term DEI or not.' The Community Coalition launches soon. Give a gift of any size, or share it. 'Where do I belong?' Here.
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CW: Ableism, Reference to eugenics
@akamran
As a person with an “invisible” disability, who experienced how differently people treat you, when this disability becomes visible, as a German person who did a deep dive into my countries history and understood that eugenics has not only been one of the key features of fascism, but it still prevalent in our society, as a person who is very much into disability justice, I have so many thoughts on this perspective. I might write about that in a separate post and break it down to this.Disabled people don’t owe anybody the disclosure of their disability.
Certain glasses are criticized, because they can be used for purposes that are a violation of privacy. The disability of a person is a very private information, the disclosure can be a safety issue. Disclosing your disability can make you a target for people with bad intentions and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.
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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #100: Interview with Frank Smith, National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-07-27-2026/Frank Smith helped found NEADS in 1986 and retires in September after 40 years. He argues the need for an organization of disabled students, not for them, has not gone away.
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Digitale Technik ist für mich kein Zusatz. Sie ist ein Werkzeug für Selbstbestimmung, Kreativität und Teilhabe.
In der neuen Folge von *einfach Mensch* begleitet mich Luca Simonis durch unterschiedliche Bereiche meines Alltags: beim Seminar an der Universität Koblenz, unterwegs, bei meiner digitalen Kunst und beim Tüfteln an Technologien, die mein Leben praktisch verbessern.
Der Film zeigt dabei hoffentlich vor allem eines: Technischer Fortschritt wird dann wirklich emanzipatorisch, wenn behinderte Menschen nicht nur Nutzer*innen sind, sondern selbst entwickeln, gestalten und ihre Perspektiven einbringen.
Barrierefreiheit ist kein Bonus. Sie schafft Möglichkeiten – für Bildung, Arbeit, Kunst, Reisen, Begegnungen und ein selbstbestimmtes Leben.
Die 15-minütige Folge **„Christian Bayerlein: Aktivist und digitaler Grenzgänger“** ist jetzt in der ZDFmediathek verfügbar:
https://www.zdf.de/video/reportagen/einfach-mensch-digitale-helfer-100/christian-bayerlein-aktivist-und-digitaler-grenzgaenger-film-von-luca-simonis-100#DigitaleTeilhabe #Barrierefreiheit #AssistiveTechnologien #Inklusion #DisabilityRights #Kunst
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I’m autistic. Here’s what happened to us this week.
Federal officials are closing the comment window on a 336-page autism research plan. It could steer priorities at NIH, CDC, and beyond for the next two years. Advocates had to push for more time just to read it.
Meanwhile, prescriptions for leucovorin rose 46% after White House autism claims. But the largest supporting trial was retracted earlier this year.
And in North Carolina, new Medicaid rules for autism therapy are already raising access questions for families and providers.
This isn’t abstract policy. It shapes what gets studied, prescribed, funded, restricted... and who gets heard.
What story in this week’s briefing hits closest to home for you?
#ActuallyAutistic #DisabilityRights #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #AutismResearch
https://johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.com/p/divergent-times-august-1319-2026
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Event: RESIST! Join the Launch of the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion: A LinkedIn Live Event | September 1, 2026 at 11AM PT | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/join-the-launch-of-the-ccsdi/ISDI's public launch is a free LinkedIn Live on Tuesday, September 1, 11am PT / 2pm ET — an open Ask Us Anything, not a presentation. Founding Membership opens the same hour. Theme: RESIST.
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Event: RESIST! Join the Launch of the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion: A LinkedIn Live Event | September 1, 2026 at 11AM PT | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/join-the-launch-of-the-ccsdi/ISDI's public launch is a free LinkedIn Live on Tuesday, September 1, 11am PT / 2pm ET — an open Ask Us Anything, not a presentation. Founding Membership opens the same hour. Theme: RESIST.
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Event: RESIST! Join the Launch of the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion: A LinkedIn Live Event | September 1, 2026 at 11AM PT | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/join-the-launch-of-the-ccsdi/ISDI's public launch is a free LinkedIn Live on Tuesday, September 1, 11am PT / 2pm ET — an open Ask Us Anything, not a presentation. Founding Membership opens the same hour. Theme: RESIST.
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Welcome, Even Though I'm Blind: Why Our Newest Sponsor Named His Organization After His Own Song | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher, Access Information News | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/welcome-even-though-im-blind/Bussey, blind since fifteen, named ETIB after his own 2021 song. It runs an internet radio station, a podcast, and a blind-owned business directory. Di Blasi: "ETIB does not make a product. It makes a public square."
#AccessInformationNews #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #Blind
