#disabilityrights — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disabilityrights, aggregated by home.social.
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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
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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
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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
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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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🎙️ 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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CW: CW: ableist slurs, ableism
Just encountered another specimen of the “old white German man who thinks his vocabulary is a constitutional right” variety.
He was using “disabled” as an insult. Not accidentally. Not metaphorically in some obscure linguistic sense. Deliberately, to describe people he considers stupid, irrational, or “not quite right in the head.”
And when challenged?
Apparently, “disabled” is simply a synonym for people who "aren't quite clear in the head" (his words, not mine).
What a fascinating little piece of linguistic archaeology. Somewhere between 1950s institutionalisation and the village pub, apparently.
No, darling.
Disabled people are not a metaphor for stupidity. They are not a convenient category of human beings whose existence gives you a handy vocabulary for calling someone an idiot. And your personal decision to use an ableist slur does not magically turn it into a neutral dictionary definition.
Then, naturally, came the wounded dignity:
We should stop criticising him. We're annoying him.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Were we interrupting your little linguistic tradition of punching down?
How terribly inconvenient that the people you are casually degrading have developed the audacity to answer back.
This is the part where I am apparently supposed to be polite and explain, very gently, that perhaps we shouldn't use language that treats disabled people as synonymous with being defective.
No.
Fuck that.
If your vocabulary depends on treating an entire group of people as shorthand for “stupid,” your vocabulary is the thing that needs fixing.
And if being told that makes you uncomfortable, perhaps sit with that discomfort for a while.
It won't hurt you.
Being treated as though your feelings matter more than the dignity of the people you just insulted, however, might be a habit worth breaking.
We are not going to make ourselves smaller so you can remain comfortable in your prejudices.
You can update your language.
You can apologise.
Or you can continue being offended that the twenty-first century has arrived without asking your permission.
But please don't mistake our refusal to shut up for rudeness.
It is accountability.
And yes, we will keep "annoying" you.
Apparently someone has to.
#Ableism #DisabilityRights #StopAbleism #DisabledPeople #LanguageMatters #Accessibility #Inclusion #Dignity #PunchUpNotDown
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We Are Stronger Together. Join the Circle. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/we-are-stronger-together-join-the-circle/Dr. Kirk Adams says movements for disability, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, veterans, and aging share values but too often work in isolation, weakening their collective voice. His remedy: unite through ISDI's new Community Coalition on the Circle. Give $5 or $50 — or share. Coalitions grow one person at a time.
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We Are Stronger Together. Join the Circle. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/we-are-stronger-together-join-the-circle/Dr. Kirk Adams says movements for disability, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, veterans, and aging share values but too often work in isolation, weakening their collective voice. His remedy: unite through ISDI's new Community Coalition on the Circle. Give $5 or $50 — or share. Coalitions grow one person at a time.
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We Are Stronger Together. Join the Circle. | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
https://drkirkadams.com/we-are-stronger-together-join-the-circle/Dr. Kirk Adams says movements for disability, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, veterans, and aging share values but too often work in isolation, weakening their collective voice. His remedy: unite through ISDI's new Community Coalition on the Circle. Give $5 or $50 — or share. Coalitions grow one person at a time.
