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What Do You See in a Blue Suit?

October 5, 2022 Tags: disability, morality and justice, politics

1 At a recent roundtable meeting for disability rights leaders, Kamala Harris described herself as follows: “I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.” Harris was put in a no-win

Disability Appropriation

March 14, 2022 Tags: disability, politics

To accuse a work or its author of cultural appropriation can be to censor a possibly sincere attempt to celebrate fellow human beings. The same can apply to claims of disability appropriation. In my view, the focus should be on countering it, not

Disability and Censorship

December 20, 2021 Tags: censorship, disability, word usage

“Ableism” has been defined as “discrimination in favor of able-bodied people.” Advocates for people with disabilities believe that central to the fight to end ableism is the censorship of words that could cause offense and perpetuate harmful

Courage Cells: A Story

November 30, 2021 Tags: aging, disability, empathy, fiction, memory

Who would I be if I forgot the teacher who coaxed me past my math phobia, or the time my boss bailed me out and then reamed me out after I got a client into a disastrous investment, or the glowing loveliness of my wife Jane on our wedding day? Memory

Project Bloom

October 4, 2021 Tags: disability, Life in the COVID era

Project Bloom is a new anthology of essays and poems written by people who experienced the pandemic. Lisa M. Alexander and Joshua Potter-Efron, the editors, have drawn on works by a variety of people whose names are hardly household, mine included.

Do I Even Exist?

July 15, 2021 Tags: censorship, disability, poetry, politics

Do I Even Exist? I do not have numbers for physically disabled students, and I'm not sure if the College makes that information public. Amherst believes that the number of students with physical disabilities is small enough that providing a

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