Disability
Social justice is for everyone, including people with disabilities - Marlee Matlin
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Disability On Disability Discrimination Needs To Stop. Now
I represent, in one person, several groups and intersections. As a black lesbian with disabilities currently struggling to make a living, my life has been interesting and challenging. I find it disheartening and disturbing when I see people and groups who have been oppressed by the dominant culture in turn, oppress other marginalized groups and people. It’s particularly disturbing when I see this among groups of people with disabilities.
I have never understood why this happens. I know intimately how it feels to be discriminated against for being all of who I am. Knowing that pain, I am vigilant about not perpetuating injustice…
Resources
I Use a Wheelchair. And Yes, I’m Your Doctor
I find that these reactions are somewhat generational. Younger patients, having grown up amid a growing awareness of disability in society, typically do not react at all. They have clearly encountered empowered people with disabilities working in various professional roles. Older patients often seem confused, curious or, in rare circumstances, dismayed.
We Need More Doctors With Disabilities
One-fifth of all Americans have a disability, but less than 1 percent of doctors do. That’s slowly starting to change—to the benefit of medicine and patients.
Are You Disabled? Your Boss Needs to Know
The new guidelines were pushed in part by disability advocates, who say that previous government rules were ineffective at finding jobs for veterans and victims of illness or accident, even while technology has expanded the categories of jobs they are able to perform.
Disability Laws Are Not Enough to Combat Discrimination
If we are to achieve the goal of making people with disabilities full and equal members of the work force, we will need not just antidiscrimination laws but social welfare programs that will overcome these barriers.
Employers Still Lag Behind When It Comes To Disability
The challenges faced by disabled people when it comes to entering the workplace show no sign of abating. Recent research by Scope shows that 74% of disabled adults feel they have lost out on a job opportunity because of their impairment or health condition and three out of four U.K. employees report having felt uncomfortable when dealing with a disabled colleague because they are worried they will cause offence.
Punished Twice
Prisons across the U.S. routinely flout the Americans With Disabilities Act, subjecting thousands of inmates with physical and mental health problems to painful and sometimes humiliating conditions, according to watchdog groups, inmates, corrections officials, and a former Justice Department official in charge of enforcing the law.
Disability On Disability Discrimination Needs To Stop. Now
I find it disheartening and disturbing when I see people and groups who have been oppressed by the dominant culture in turn, oppress other marginalized groups and people. It’s particularly disturbing when I see this among groups of people with disabilities.
My Blog
Disabled people in the UK still face many difficulties and you only have to go on public transport or to a local cinema to see that there is an awful long way to go to create anything like a situation of equality.
The Feha Blog
Commentary on the FEHA – the California Fair Employment and Housing Act – from An Employee Rights Attorney's Point of View.
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