Elon Musk, President Donald Trump ’s buddy-in-chief and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is among those who uses the slur regularly: In the past year, Musk, has used “retarded” as an insult at least a ...

I was nine years old when my life changed forever. It was November 29, 1997 and we – my dad, brothers, sister and I – were ...

Five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, people who are still vulnerable to the ...

I could be the funniest, but it doesn’t matter because all people will see is blind. (cited in Romo et al., 2023) Stereotypes and Ableism When people see only our blindness, we become a stereotype.

Local artist Connor Fogal is the focus of Reynolds School of Journalism Associate Dean and Professor Kari Barber’s latest ...

One of the great American plays is heading to Bolton’s Octagon Theatre next week and for cast member Ben Wilson, it’s easy to understand why ...

When I was a teenager, a professor my parents knew heard that I wanted to major in physics. Because I am blind, he told my parents that wouldn’t be possible: “Physicists,” he informed us, “have to be ...

The descriptor “normal gay” was coined by then-vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance in an October interview with podcast ...

The court went on to add, "It also indicates a classification which is overbroad and glorifies 'ableism'. It propagates that persons with typical abilities and with faculties similar to what the ...

But his warning, meant to highlight the hurdles of inaccessible technology, inadvertently highlighted an even larger and more pervasive barrier: ableism. Ableism is the societal package of ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act separates the United States from progressive countries like the Netherlands. The United ...