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...

Cut Out for Him: A Father on His Son’s Employment Future

• By: Jeff Stimpson
• April 1st, 2014
• disability rights, employment, Fair Labor Standards Act, father, job training, transition to adulthood, vocational skills, wages, work-based learning, young adults
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My 15-year-old son Alex (diagnosed PDD-NOS) goes to a special-needs school where some students are old enough to work. A few years ago Alex’s teacher told me about when she approached a local thrift shop about students volunteering there. “We don’t hire the handicapped,” the clerk...