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fromUX Magazine
3 days ago

Ableist Design: Challenging Systemic Norms

Because we're products of a system that excludes certain people, it's surprisingly easy to do the same. Unless we've experienced exclusion or someone has pointed it out to us. Gradually, this exclusion seeps into design, and not only through inaccessible interfaces. Ableist design shows up in the user needs we forget to anticipate, who we don't invite for user research, and how we deprioritise tasks of a project.
UX design
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week ago

Anti-trans activist touts transphobic, ableist game about blind lesbians in bonkers interview - LGBTQ Nation

Graham Linehan is creating a transphobic, ableist ChatGPT video game that targets a trans lesbian and advocates humiliating punishment using blind lesbians as characters.
fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

Is Redistricting 'Retarded'? - Above the Law

[H]undreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for 'prey' as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Trump keeps insulting female journalists | Arwa Mahdawi

President Trump repeatedly used disparaging, misogynistic, ableist, and Islamophobic insults on social media against journalists and politicians.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The Guardian view on authentic casting in Wicked: finally a true celebration of difference | Editorial

Authentic casting for disabled roles remains rare, with industry inaccessibility, logistical barriers, and able-bodied portrayals perpetuating underrepresentation and harm.
#disability-rights
Social justice
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Special Olympics Asks Kid Rock to Stop Using the R-Word

Kid Rock used a demeaning slur on television, prompting Special Olympics vice chair Lorretta Clairborne to request acknowledgment, an apology, and a conversation about inclusion.
#hate-crime
philosophy
fromApaonline
3 months ago

Access Intimacy & Killjoy Kinship

Access intimacy emerges when people disclose access needs and others respond with understanding and enthusiastic care, transforming hostile academic spaces into mutual support.
Health
fromwww.bbc.com
3 months ago

Disabled NHS medic told she's 'not a real doctor'

Disabled doctors face ableism and inadequate workplace adjustments in the NHS, causing some to leave or consider leaving clinical practice.
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
5 months ago

LGBTQ+ double amputee opens up about what Disability Pride Month means to him

"Disability Pride Month enables me to reflect and appreciate my journey as an intersectional disabled, queer person of colour. It makes me value my life and achievements, despite having to deal with ableist behaviours and discriminations on a daily basis."
LGBT
#disability
fromPortland Mercury
6 months ago

Mercury Music Picks: Holocene Turns 22 and the Mercury on City Cast Portland!

"I am so tired-exhausted even-of people using the r-word thinking it's somehow subversive and edgy when it's actually completely fucked up and abelist."
Portland food
philosophy
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

The ancient Chinese text of the Zhuangzi teaches us to reject entrenched values and treasure the diversity of humanity | Karyn Lai

The Zhuangzi emphasizes the value of diversity and challenges societal views on disability and usefulness.
Parenting
fromPsychology Today
7 months ago

The Identity Arc Behind Our Neurodivergent Responses

Neurodivergent identity development influences responses to ableism and advocacy, shaped by individual experiences and societal contexts.
NYC parents
fromwww.nytimes.com
7 months ago

RFK Jr. Claimed Autism Destroys' Lives. Autistic People Disagree.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s comments on autism prompted widespread criticism for perpetuating stigma and damaging perceptions of autistic individuals.
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