Recent essays
My city called on us to craft language about gaza
Early reflections for other local communities.
As local leaders, we are still left to contend with the role that local governments ought to play in adopting resolutions amid national and international calamities—even the ones that we pay for out of pocket. Intense public processes, regardless of the merits of a resolution, can be prohibitive. And what, after all, does it matter if we are starting hundreds of conversations around the country if these efforts are thought to be merely symbolic?
Sterilization Laws Are Still on the Books — and Pose New Dangers Post-Roe
Truthout
The legacy of eugenics threatens to break forth with the aid of an unchecked and compromised Supreme Court.
In a post-Roe world, the promises of societal progress and bodily liberty, long the roar of a country constantly seeking to better itself, are duller. Today, 31 states unabashedly have laws sanctioning the sterilization of disabled people. In Nevada and Iowa, these laws, only three years old, are fresh. Seventeen of these states consider disabled children eligible for forced sterilization. This most recent assault on reproductive rights, decades in the making, renders conceiving of a future free from state control of our bodies, persecution of disability and intolerance of difference markedly more difficult.
protect elderly, disabled homeless population
The Oregonian
When we see an increasing number of disabled folks slipping out of secure housing—as the article notes, the poverty rate for adults with disabilities is twice that of adults without disabilities—we must wake up to the alarming violence faced by our disabled unhoused neighbors.
