What I’d Like to See Change in the Disability World Over the Next 50 Years – Part 2: Know and Teach the REAL History

• By: Michael John Carley New York University Connections ASD Program
• July 12th, 2024
• actually autistic, advocacy, disability rights, historical injustice, Summer 2024 Issue
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Occurring all across Western culture is a deep reckoning with the historical treatment of people of African descent. And assisting mightily in this process is the concept of unlearning. Without unlearning, we now know that we will continue to sanitize and apologize for our ancestors. Unlearning...

AHRC NYC’s Memorial Goldfarb Symposium Highlights Court Rulings Overlook Impact on Disability Community

• By: | AHRC New York City
• October 2nd, 2023
• affirmative action, AHRC NYC, court rulings, disability rights, Equal Rights Amendment, Fall 2023 Issue, Goldfarb Symposium, inclusive coalitions, intersectionality, New York State, partnerships, reproductive rights, US Supreme Court
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Applying a disability lens to the U.S. Supreme Court decisions makes it clear that recent rulings, including affirmative action, have a significant impact on the community, according to a panel of experts at AHRC New York City’s first Memorial Michael Goldfarb Symposium. “People of color...

Autistic Lived Experience: When I Learned that Helen Keller Believed in Eugenics

• By: Sam Farmer Neurodiversity Community Self-Advocate, Writer, Author, and Public Speaker
• January 2nd, 2023
• actually autistic, advocacy, disability rights, eugenics, Helen Keller, heroes, Winter 2023 Issue
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To say that learning about this for the first time felt like a punch in the gut is a gross understatement. Though I heard it from what I consider to be a credible source (the PBS documentary series The U.S. and the Holocaust), I nonetheless could not bring myself to believe the truth because I...