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🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Tom Babinszki, Owner, Even Grounds
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-20-2026/

Born blind in 1970s Hungary, where a relative suggested he might one day watch the geese, Babinszki now runs Even Grounds — accessibility consulting plus tactile 3D work for the Toledo Zoo, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Opera. His advice: don't ever accept that something is not accessible.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Tom Babinszki, Owner, Even Grounds
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-20-2026/

Born blind in 1970s Hungary, where a relative suggested he might one day watch the geese, Babinszki now runs Even Grounds — accessibility consulting plus tactile 3D work for the Toledo Zoo, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Opera. His advice: don't ever accept that something is not accessible.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Tom Babinszki, Owner, Even Grounds
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-20-2026/

Born blind in 1970s Hungary, where a relative suggested he might one day watch the geese, Babinszki now runs Even Grounds — accessibility consulting plus tactile 3D work for the Toledo Zoo, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Opera. His advice: don't ever accept that something is not accessible.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

Call Luna. Learn Anything: Meet Derek Fine and Luna AI, Now Sponsoring Access Information News | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/meet-derek-fine-and-luna-ai/

An AI tutor you reach by ordinary phone call or WhatsApp - no app, no account, no screen. Load your own notes, PDFs or a Quizlet set and it teaches from your material, and calling is free. Aaron Di Blasi introduces the sponsor and founder Derek Fine.

#AccessInformationNews #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #AI

Call Luna. Learn Anything: Meet Derek Fine and Luna AI, Now Sponsoring Access Information News | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/meet-derek-fine-and-luna-ai/

An AI tutor you reach by ordinary phone call or WhatsApp - no app, no account, no screen. Load your own notes, PDFs or a Quizlet set and it teaches from your material, and calling is free. Aaron Di Blasi introduces the sponsor and founder Derek Fine.

#AccessInformationNews #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #AI

Call Luna. Learn Anything: Meet Derek Fine and Luna AI, Now Sponsoring Access Information News | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/meet-derek-fine-and-luna-ai/

An AI tutor you reach by ordinary phone call or WhatsApp - no app, no account, no screen. Load your own notes, PDFs or a Quizlet set and it teaches from your material, and calling is free. Aaron Di Blasi introduces the sponsor and founder Derek Fine.

#AccessInformationNews #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #AI

Call Luna. Learn Anything: Meet Derek Fine and Luna AI, Now Sponsoring Access Information News | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/meet-derek-fine-and-luna-ai/

An AI tutor you reach by ordinary phone call or WhatsApp - no app, no account, no screen. Load your own notes, PDFs or a Quizlet set and it teaches from your material, and calling is free. Aaron Di Blasi introduces the sponsor and founder Derek Fine.

#AccessInformationNews #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #AI

The Doors Are Open: How to Join the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion | By Dr. Kirk Adams, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/how-to-join-the-ccsdi/

Live since September 1, 2026, on four words: Connect, Learn, Act, Together. Founding Membership is co-authorship, not early access: $25.99/month or $239.88/year, $15.99/month honor-system for students and unemployed. Closes December 31, 2026.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity #DEIAB

The Doors Are Open: How to Join the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion | By Dr. Kirk Adams, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/how-to-join-the-ccsdi/

Live since September 1, 2026, on four words: Connect, Learn, Act, Together. Founding Membership is co-authorship, not early access: $25.99/month or $239.88/year, $15.99/month honor-system for students and unemployed. Closes December 31, 2026.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity #DEIAB

The Doors Are Open: How to Join the Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion | By Dr. Kirk Adams, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/how-to-join-the-ccsdi/

Live since September 1, 2026, on four words: Connect, Learn, Act, Together. Founding Membership is co-authorship, not early access: $25.99/month or $239.88/year, $15.99/month honor-system for students and unemployed. Closes December 31, 2026.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity #DEIAB

🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Cazerny Bussey, Founder, Even Though I'm Blind Foundation
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-18-2026/

Two blind leaders who arrived at the same work from opposite directions. Bussey lost his sight at fifteen, worked alongside Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J and Chuck D, and was the only blind person in every room. That isolation became the Even Though I'm Blind Foundation, now a sponsor of Access Information News.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Cazerny Bussey, Founder, Even Though I'm Blind Foundation
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-18-2026/

Two blind leaders who arrived at the same work from opposite directions. Bussey lost his sight at fifteen, worked alongside Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J and Chuck D, and was the only blind person in every room. That isolation became the Even Though I'm Blind Foundation, now a sponsor of Access Information News.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Cazerny Bussey, Founder, Even Though I'm Blind Foundation
https://drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr-kirk-adams-08-18-2026/

Two blind leaders who arrived at the same work from opposite directions. Bussey lost his sight at fifteen, worked alongside Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J and Chuck D, and was the only blind person in every room. That isolation became the Even Though I'm Blind Foundation, now a sponsor of Access Information News.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

Recording: Official Launch of The Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion | ISDI | By Dr. Kirk Adams, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/ccsdi-launch-09-01-2026/

The full recording of the September 1 launch of the national membership community ISDI built to move inclusion work from isolated survival mode to collective power. A complete transcript is included. Founding membership open through Dec 31, 2026.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

Recording: Official Launch of The Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion | ISDI | By Dr. Kirk Adams, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/ccsdi-launch-09-01-2026/

The full recording of the September 1 launch of the national membership community ISDI built to move inclusion work from isolated survival mode to collective power. A complete transcript is included. Founding membership open through Dec 31, 2026.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

Recording: Official Launch of The Community Coalition for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion | ISDI | By Dr. Kirk Adams, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/ccsdi-launch-09-01-2026/

The full recording of the September 1 launch of the national membership community ISDI built to move inclusion work from isolated survival mode to collective power. A complete transcript is included. Founding membership open through Dec 31, 2026.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

It Started With Braille on a Bath Sponge: Welcome, Jeremy Grandstaff and The Inspiration Foundation | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher, Access Information News | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/welcome-jeremy-grandstaff-and-the-inspiration-foundation/

AIN welcomes its newest sponsor. It starts with the working Braille on Cleanlogic's bath and body packaging, and runs to Jeremy Grandstaff, the Foundation's first executive director in twenty years.

#AccessInformationNews #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp

It Started With Braille on a Bath Sponge: Welcome, Jeremy Grandstaff and The Inspiration Foundation | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher, Access Information News | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/welcome-jeremy-grandstaff-and-the-inspiration-foundation/

AIN welcomes its newest sponsor. It starts with the working Braille on Cleanlogic's bath and body packaging, and runs to Jeremy Grandstaff, the Foundation's first executive director in twenty years.

#AccessInformationNews #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp

It Started With Braille on a Bath Sponge: Welcome, Jeremy Grandstaff and The Inspiration Foundation | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher, Access Information News | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/welcome-jeremy-grandstaff-and-the-inspiration-foundation/

AIN welcomes its newest sponsor. It starts with the working Braille on Cleanlogic's bath and body packaging, and runs to Jeremy Grandstaff, the Foundation's first executive director in twenty years.

#AccessInformationNews #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp

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Boost for reach, help where you can, fediverse! Poverty plus disability is hard AF.

#boost #boostplease #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidThread @mutualaid #letsgo #help #trans #lgbtqia #transgender #chronicillness #disabilityrights #disability

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117226113967982260

Boost for reach, help where you can, fediverse! Poverty plus disability is hard AF.

#boost #boostplease #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidThread @mutualaid #letsgo #help #trans #lgbtqia #transgender #chronicillness #disabilityrights #disability

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Boost for reach, help where you can, fediverse! Poverty plus disability is hard AF.

#boost #boostplease #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidThread @mutualaid #letsgo #help #trans #lgbtqia #transgender #chronicillness #disabilityrights #disability

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117226113967982260

Boost for reach, help where you can, fediverse! Poverty plus disability is hard AF.

#boost #boostplease #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidThread @mutualaid #letsgo #help #trans #lgbtqia #transgender #chronicillness #disabilityrights #disability

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117226113967982260

Boost for reach, help where you can, fediverse! Poverty plus disability is hard AF.

#boost #boostplease #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidThread @mutualaid #letsgo #help #trans #lgbtqia #transgender #chronicillness #disabilityrights #disability

At her town hall meeting at Alameda High School, Congresswoman Lateefah Simon laid out a broad progressive agenda. Karin K. Jensen reports that Simon pledged to fight for disability rights, affordable housing, and healthcare. She also opposed war, cuts to social programs, and coal in Oakland. https://alamedapost.com/news/simon-lays-out-progressive-priorities-at-alameda-town-hall/

#alameda #AlamedaHighSchool #DisabilityRights #EdenChan #education #LateefahSimon #PublicTransit #RyanLaLonde

#disabled #DisabilityAwareness #disabilityrights #DisabledCommunity

"TV will rot your brain!" Remember when we said that?

Now we're saying it about AI, and we're missing the plot. If you're exhausted by the doomism around AI, I wrote a guide on how to actually fight back...

https://open.substack.com/pub/arcwolf/p/good-ai-bad-ai?r=6y14a6&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

...all without throwing neurodivergent folks who use cognitive prostheses under the bus. 💜 🤖

#AI #TechEthics #PhilosophyOfTech #Sociotech #DigitalHumanities #TechRegulation #CopyrightLaw #LaborRights #DisabilityRights #Neurodivergent #Animaniacs

Disability news from disabled journalists. Novel concept, right? →

📰 13 curated stories on disability rights, accessibility & workers' rights.

🔥 Today's Headlines:

1. The Disability Bulletin
2. Please Advise! Will Testicle-Tanning Tucker Carlson Invade Canada?
3. How Does Canada’s Level of Democracy Stack Up Globally?

📰 Read all 13 stories: https://3mpwrapp.pages.dev/blog/#curated-daily

#3mpwrApp #DisabilityRights #Accessibility #ChronicIllness #WorkersRights #Canada #Neurod...

Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts. Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and nondisabled people alike.

In this engaging interview, Talila A. Lewis argues that ableism has deep implications for every other marginalized identity. In short, ableism, according to Lewis, is at the root of other powerful hegemonic sites — from race and class to colonialism and nationality. In this way, they uncover the ways in which ableism insidiously operates across space and time. As an abolitionist community lawyer, educator and organizer, Lewis has focused on abolishing the medical-carceral-industrial complex and highlighting the inextricable links between ableism, racism, classism, and all other forms of oppression and violence.

https://truthout.org/articles/ableism-enables-all-forms-of-inequity-and-hampers-all-liberation-efforts

#PeopleWithDisabilities #DecolonizeYourMind #AntiAbleism #DisabledLivesMatter #Decolonization #EndOppression #Intersectionality #Activism #DisabledActivists #BeAComrade #NoAbleism #DisabilityRights #HumanRights #Classism #Colonialism #Capitalism #Inequality #Liberation #Inequity #marginalized #RiseUpAgainstAbleism #StopBeingEnableists #Educational #DisabilityAwareness #Inclusion #NothingWithUsWithoutUs

started a #wikipedia article on Norma Wagner (1928-1998), a white Freedom Rider who had trouble getting arrested in 1961 Mississippi and Louisiana, because she was blind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Wagner @wikiwomeninred #MLKDay #CivilRights #DisabilityRights #dishist #FreedomRider #Blind #RochesterNY

started a #wikipedia article on Norma Wagner (1928-1998), a white Freedom Rider who had trouble getting arrested in 1961 Mississippi and Louisiana, because she was blind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Wagner @wikiwomeninred #MLKDay #CivilRights #DisabilityRights #dishist #FreedomRider #Blind #RochesterNY

started a #wikipedia article on Norma Wagner (1928-1998), a white Freedom Rider who had trouble getting arrested in 1961 Mississippi and Louisiana, because she was blind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Wagner @wikiwomeninred #MLKDay #CivilRights #DisabilityRights #dishist #FreedomRider #Blind #RochesterNY

started a #wikipedia article on Norma Wagner (1928-1998), a white Freedom Rider who had trouble getting arrested in 1961 Mississippi and Louisiana, because she was blind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Wagner @wikiwomeninred #MLKDay #CivilRights #DisabilityRights #dishist #FreedomRider #Blind #RochesterNY

started a #wikipedia article on Norma Wagner (1928-1998), a white Freedom Rider who had trouble getting arrested in 1961 Mississippi and Louisiana, because she was blind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Wagner @wikiwomeninred #MLKDay #CivilRights #DisabilityRights #dishist #FreedomRider #Blind #RochesterNY

Is AI just a "slot machine" for random content, or is it a digital prosthetic for the neurodivergent mind? My latest essay explores how I use AI as a shield to protect my dignity and survive in a world not built for me.

https://kalvin.my/the-slot-machine-and-the-shield-a-reflection-on-tools-survival-and-autonomy

#AI #Neurodiversity #Autism #Schizophrenia #DigitalProsthetic #HumaneTech #SocialSovereignty #Autonomy #TechEthics #InformationLiteracy #DisabilityRights #DigitalShield #SelfHosting #Sabah #Malaysia #Activism #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub

@thetyee

["The decision was made after the provincial government’s recent backtracking on the redesign of language acquisition programs for deaf, hard-of-hearing and deafblind children.

It’s not just an organization closing,” said Sarah-Anne Hrycenko, a Deaf professional who received support through the Deaf Children’s Society of BC, or DCS, when she was a baby. “It’s the fading of an entire Deaf ecosystem that once nurtured language, identity and leadership in [the] B.C. Deaf community.” ]

This #BCgovernment doesn't really care about #PeopleWithDisabilities. Programs/services/supports for #disabled citizens have been cut, budgets slashed; we face years plus long waiting lists to access both medical & disability support services, we live under #eugenics public health policies, our BC government still denies prescription coverage for several essential medications, funding for nonprofits that help disabled people live/work has been fully cut or severely reduced. That's only the tip of the inhumane cruelty icebergs - when it comes to how our governments have #dehumanized & mistreated us disabled citizens. Their dishonest PR speeches do not align with the hard realities that people with disabilities in BC face, regularly.

#DeafPeople #BCNDP #BCpoli #CDNpoli #DisabledLivesMatter #DisabilityAdvocacy #BCNewDeathParty #DisabilitySupports #DisabilityRights

Manchmal fühlt es sich so ermüdend und frustrierend an, immer noch für Dinge kämpfen zu müssen, die längst selbstverständlich sein sollten: das Recht auf Nähe, Lust, Berührung und Selbstbestimmung.⬇️

#Selbstbestimmung #Sexualassistenz #Inklusion #Inkluencer #DisabilityRights #Queer #Disability #DisabilityAwareness #Behinderung #SexEducation #SexEd #Sexualität #Menschenrechte #Empowerment #Feminismus #Teilhabe #Kohlhammer

I am hosting a race and documentary to spread awareness against ABA in November.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1AMm2J8A49/

#AntiABA #EndABA #ABAReform #StopABA #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #ListenToAutistics #DisabilityRights #AutismAdvocacy #SayNoToABA #AutismAcceptance #ABAisAbuse
#AutisticJustice #AutisticRights #AutismEducation #AutismAwareness #HumanRights #AutismRevolution #StopTheHarm #BanABA #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #AutisticCommunity #Neurodivergent #DisabilityJustice

Little goofy art for Autism awareness/acceptance month!

#Autism #Autistic #AutisticRights #AutisticArtist #AutisticArt #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptance #Acceptance #AutismPride #Disability #DisabilityRights #DisabledArtist #DisabilityArt #Art #MastoArt #Krita #Furry #FurryArt #FurryArtist

Benevolent Ableism is a very real growing problem around ABA and it's infringing of autism/human rights these days....

#AntiABA #EndABA #ABAReform #StopABA #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #ListenToAutistics #DisabilityRights #AutismAdvocacy #SayNoToABA #AutismAcceptance #ABAisAbuse #BoycottABA
#AutisticJustice #AutisticRights #AutismEducation #AutismAwareness #HumanRights #AutismRevolution #StopTheHarm #BanABA #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #AutisticCommunity #Neurodivergent

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#AntiABA #EndABA #ABAReform #StopABA #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #ListenToAutistics #DisabilityRights #AutismAdvocacy #SayNoToABA #AutismAcceptance #ABAisAbuse #BoycottABA
#AutisticJustice #AutisticRights #AutismEducation #AutismAwareness #HumanRights #AutismRevolution #StopTheHarm #BanABA #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #AutisticCommunity #Neurodivergent #DisabilityJustice #AutisticSurvivors #TraumaInformedCare #AutismCulture #SupportNotSuppress

#AntiABA #EndABA #ABAReform #StopABA #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #ListenToAutistics #DisabilityRights #AutismAdvocacy #SayNoToABA #AutismAcceptance #ABAisAbuse #BoycottABA
#AutisticJustice #AutisticRights #AutismEducation #AutismAwareness #HumanRights #AutismRevolution #StopTheHarm #BanABA #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #AutisticCommunity #Neurodivergent #DisabilityJustice #AutisticSurvivors #TraumaInformedCare #AutismCulture #SupportNotSuppress

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

By the way this is a nice post You should read related to this too: https://shorturl.at/wFkSL

#AntiABA #EndABA #ABAReform #StopABA #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #ListenToAutistics #DisabilityRights #AutismAdvocacy #SayNoToABA #AutismAcceptance #ABAisAbuse #BoycottABA
#AutisticJustice #AutisticRights #AutismEducation #AutismAwareness #HumanRights #AutismRevolution #StopTheHarm #BanABA

Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse than their non disabled peers.

We’re often trapped with caregivers who treat us badly & lack the financial support to leave. We may also be physically dependent on the abuser for basic activities of daily living.

Many disability benefits are cut if you marry or cohabitate, which further enforces dependency.

For International Women’s Day help us fight for a universal basic income, better social and medical support and access so that we may regain as much autonomy as possible.

#IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay #disability #disabilityrights #ableism #ubi #autonomy #abuse

Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse than their non disabled peers.

We’re often trapped with caregivers who treat us badly & lack the financial support to leave. We may also be physically dependent on the abuser for basic activities of daily living.

Many disability benefits are cut if you marry or cohabitate, which further enforces dependency.

For International Women’s Day help us fight for a universal basic income, better social and medical support and access so that we may regain as much autonomy as possible.

#IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay #disability #disabilityrights #ableism #ubi #autonomy #abuse

Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse than their non disabled peers.

We’re often trapped with caregivers who treat us badly & lack the financial support to leave. We may also be physically dependent on the abuser for basic activities of daily living.

Many disability benefits are cut if you marry or cohabitate, which further enforces dependency.

For International Women’s Day help us fight for a universal basic income, better social and medical support and access so that we may regain as much autonomy as possible.

#IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay #disability #disabilityrights #ableism #ubi #autonomy #abuse

The War on #Masks Has Taken on a New Meaning

This time, the masks have nothing to do with #COVID19.

By Henry Grabar
Feb 05, 20254:57 PM

"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'

"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'

"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.

"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from #DisabilityRights advocates, #CriminalJustice reformers, #HealthCareWorkers, and #CivilLiberties groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.

"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. #NorthCarolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again #BanPublicFaceCoverings, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten #StudentProtesters with #felonies. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to #unmask #protesters this year.

"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era #HealthDirectives and make it easier to arrest #demonstrators at the same time.

"In #Ohio and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the #KuKluxKlan, but had been ignored or suspended during the #pandemic and the #GeorgeFloydProtests. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of #Gaza as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '#KKK tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.

"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to #Philadelphia banning #SkiMasks in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson by a #MaskedAssassin, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: #NoFaceNoCase.

"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.

"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. #PoliceReformers observed that #MaskBans have often been used for pretextual #policing and racial profiling against #BlackAmericans. (#AtlantaGeorgia tabled a mask ban for that reason.)

"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of #FacialRecognition, streaming video, and #doxing. Last year, the anonymous #ProIsrael website the #CanaryMission posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.

"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be
'targets' for their alleged involvement in #DEI initiatives at work.

"Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"

Source:
https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent

#MadLiterature
Available for pre order:

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Edited by Phil Smith

Written by Mad scholars, A Mad Turn explores the field of Mad Studies in theory and practice, and what Mad Studies can bring to academia and to other social institutions. What does it mean to “do” Mad Studies? What are the field’s intersections with disability justice, Mad justice, and gender and queer studies? This book is a bold step toward the Mad Studies yet-to-come—a Mad Studies that Mad people will build, twisting and turning and singing and dancing, a new realm of thinking-being-doing-knowing. Step into it with us.

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Looking for a cure?

#LizCarr has stepped away from acting to advocate against the legalization of assisted suicide. Her latest #documentary, "Better Off Dead?", explores the implications of such laws, focusing on how they endanger disabled individuals.

Travelling to Canada, Carr investigates the effects of permissive assisted suicide laws. There not only the terminally ill can opt for a medically assisted death. This practice is even extended to those facing social deprivation, presenting a grave ethical dilemma.

In Britain, Carr meets with staunch opponents, including Baroness Jane Campbell, who shares a personal story of having a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ order placed on her without consent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U

#disability #eugenism #assistedDeath #assistedSuicide #suicide #Canada #normal #normality #conformance #conformation #ethics #sociology #queer #medecine #activism #militants #choice #euthanasia #depression #mentalHealth #disabilityRights #handicap

Looking for a cure?

#LizCarr has stepped away from acting to advocate against the legalization of assisted suicide. Her latest #documentary, "Better Off Dead?", explores the implications of such laws, focusing on how they endanger disabled individuals.

Travelling to Canada, Carr investigates the effects of permissive assisted suicide laws. There not only the terminally ill can opt for a medically assisted death. This practice is even extended to those facing social deprivation, presenting a grave ethical dilemma.

In Britain, Carr meets with staunch opponents, including Baroness Jane Campbell, who shares a personal story of having a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ order placed on her without consent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U

#disability #eugenism #assistedDeath #assistedSuicide #suicide #Canada #normal #normality #conformance #conformation #ethics #sociology #queer #medecine #activism #militants #choice #euthanasia #depression #mentalHealth #disabilityRights #handicap