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Two men who worked at the Judge Rotenberg Center in MA have been charged with repeated abuse of one of their clients. Some graphic details follow. Notice how the suspects use “he was dangerous” to justify their abuse. From MassLive, my emphasis. Police say video surveillance footage from the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC) shows two …
Bakersfield CA police shoot 73-year-old man with dementia. No gun recovered. #DisabilitySolidarityhttps://t.co/IqoZTVnmIA pic.twitter.com/NmPxSjP3Sv — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) December 13, 2016 I’m working on a piece on elderly individuals killed or beaten by police. Here’s four stories from NY, IL, CA, and AL – which is to say spanning the country. Francisco Serna: Dementia, 73, …
1) Don’t taunt students. 2) Everyone is due a clear process. 3) Being an asshole is not challenging orthodoxy.https://t.co/KZUrMnFKG3 — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) December 14, 2016 I’m beginning to collect pieces on campus speech issues for a future essay. Johns Hopkins suspends an adjunct for racist jokes. Does so using a process that does …
Here’s a major feature on caring for two intellectually and developmentally disabled children in Australia. The parents wanted people to “know what it’s like, to advocate for more resources, more good housing options, and so forth. The critiques of this piece could be many, but here’s the one I want to focus on: The parents, …
Nancy Mairs: A great writer on disability, physicality, sex, pain, meaning, and more has passed away: Here’s the NYT obituary. Ms. Mairs was a budding poet in her late 20s, suffering from agoraphobia and depression — she had once attempted suicide — when she was told that she had M.S. The inexorable progress of the disease …
#BradleyKing, Avon IN. In crisis, armed with small knife, called 911, shot in his backyard. https://t.co/GFUwuGh8ND #disabilitysolidarity pic.twitter.com/h83IIAaNfY — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) December 1, 2016 We see this story too often. I don’t have all the details on this case yet, and sometimes the details better explain the decision to use lethal force. But …
Today a huge omnibus bill that reflects the worst of American lawmaking is going to move through the GOP Congress, probably with wide bipartisan support, and then will be signed by the president. It surely has many perfectly good things in it, but is intended to make it easier for Big Pharma to test drugs, …
Last week I ran a piece on life for PWDs under the GOP majority in Kansas, where the waiting lists are endless (and that’s not even counting the people who have given up and aren’t even on the lists!). Let’s talk Texas: More than a year after lawmakers originally ordered it, Texas announced Monday it …
The Disability Visibility Project (DVP) was created by Alice Wong during the 25th Anniversary of the ADA. With no resources other than a partnership with Storycorps, Wong carved out a critical space in the disability rights movement that has pushed these powerful ideas: Be visible, be present, tell your stories, demand to be heard, support others in …
Focus on Trump’s business. Follow the money. Ignore the tweets. Focus on Trump’s business. Follow the money. Ignore the tweets. Focus on Tru — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) November 27, 2016 So I tweeted this during one of Trump’s latest online spewings. A lot of people shared it. Many responded, “Fuck you, asshole, I can …