Uber: The ADA doesn’t apply to us. Philly: We have wheelchair accessible taxi-cabs. Google: Someday our accessible cars will just drive themselves and revolutionize accessibility for wheelchair users. But not today. So right now, let’s just push Uber to respect the ADA.
Don’t miss this story. These kinds of actions will continue, and must continue. Independence is at stake. Lives are at stake.
Rachel Moss at History Today on the ways that Trigger Warnings, far from being a tool for censorship, in fact empower people to access content and speak. As someone who specialises in medieval gender, if trigger warnings truly restricted classroom discussion I would be the first person to complain. After all, my research and teaching emphasise…
This is the Voting Rights Restoration project. People with disabilities want to vote! They need more and better protections.
I will be traveling through Thursday. See you at the end of the week!
The week began, for me, with the Pope’s new encyclical. That story has been buried in the US beneath the wave of big news stories involving violence here and abroad, SCOTUS decisions, and flags. I posted a wonderful guest essay from historian Ellen Arnold on the ways in which medieval ideas about the environment are…
I have a new piece up with The Atlantic on the historic decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. It argues that the history of marriage supports, even mandates, change as societies change. We’re ready. History is with us. Love wins. Here’s the piece, with thanks to Anise Strong and Ruth Karras. — UPDATE – Anise Strong gave me…
The front screen door opened and then closed. I thought it was a package. But then I heard male voices on my porch. Was the delivery man saying hi to a neighbor? After a few minutes, when they continued, I opened the door to find a police officer on my porch, another on the sidewalk…
Many work wellness programs work like this – get regular checkups, hit various benchmarks of health, get money! It’s a way for business to lower their health care costs by rewarding people for making healthy choices. Except that according to the ACLU, these bonuses are basically closed to people with disabilities. Moreover, there’s no real…
David Johnson is my main editor at Al Jazeera America, so to the extent you appreciate the pieces I write there, you have him to thank (along with several brilliant assistant editors). All mistakes, of course, are my own! But he’s also a philosopher and what one might call an “alt-academic,” someone who took his…