Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Rutgers professors Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse have a new fact sheet on turnout from people with disabilities. Their “key points:” 6.0 million people with disabilities reported voting in the November 2016 elections. The voter turnout rate of people with disabilities was 6 percentage points lower than that of people without disabilities. Employed people with …
I am moving my family to Minnesota. You can listen to an interview and read about it from a good government perspective. I wouldn’t expect much in the way of posts for the next week or so, unless I’m furious or happy.
On August 11, Access Living is hosting a forum on police interactions with people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or individuals with other disabilities. EVENT PAGE IS HERE. I’ll have left town by then, but I’m so impressed with the incredible work Access Living is doing organizing around these issues, and especially the leadership …
Four years ago, a police officer in Ontario shot Michael MacIsaac, who was running naked through his suburban neighborhood. He was allegedly holding a metal chair leg of some sort, and when he didn’t drop it, Constable Brian Taylor shot and killed him. An inquest into the shooting has just wrapped. One of the participants …
On Fox News, yesterday, Mike Huckabee said this about incoming Chief of Staff John Kelly: “If you have four stars on your shoulder, you’re not a slow learner, you didn’t ride the short bus. He will be fine.” “Short bus” in this instance, is saying that Kelly is not intellectually disabled. In other words, it’s …
No victories are ever total. Today I’m happy we saved Medicaid. It’s ok to be happy. It’s a meaningful if incremental win. Ignore the temptation to immediately point out all the battles yet to come, at least for five minutes. I have a theory of change. It’s not about marches. It’s not about twitter. But …
A TN judge wants to sterilize prisoners. I wrote for @MarshallProj on the US history of eugenics and incarceration. https://t.co/7jL24hSvPk — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) July 27, 2017 In my latest piece, I write for The Marshall Project about the history of incarceration and sterilization, of course just scratching the surface in the short commentary. Under …
Yesterday, I wrote about the adjunct prof fired by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for alleged homophobia. I wrote that we have to pay attention when people with less power are punished for speech, even if their views might be objectionable. Today, I turn to the case of Dr. Jonathan Higgins, the …
Michael Bonesteel was contingent faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). I don’t know the details of his appointment, but it seems he taught sufficient hours to have healthcare through SAIC and had been teaching about contemporary art and comics for a long time. According to Inside Higher Education, he has …
I am pleased to announce that I will be appearing with Maysoon Zayid, Victor Pineda, Sinéad Burke at OZYFEST tomorrow in Central Park, New York City. I’m honored to share the stage with these three. We will be talking about disability rights, and I will focus on parenting and formal journalism, but will hope to talk a …