Over the last two years of news coverage about the pandemic, there's been a creeping trend of characterizing the coronavirus’s effects on society — the labor shortage, the national debt, the infection ...
Words have power. This is also true of the words we use around disability. If you scroll through news articles about people with disabilities, you may see words or phrases like “stricken with multiple ...
Ableist words and phrases like "insane," "blind spot" and "falling on deaf ears" perpetuate false and harmful notions about what living and working with a disability is like. (Photo: nadia_bormotova ...
Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, ...
The editorial headline “Tone-deaf Sawant’s criticism of SPD is just too much” [Oct. 27, Opinion] used ableist language. Ableism is discrimination or prejudice against people with disabilities. It ...