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This year, the Americans with Disabilities Act has a thirtieth candle to blow out on its birthday cake. The ADA is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. We reached out to some of…
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By Suzanne Kamata On July 27, twenty-six-year-old Satoshi Uematsu, a former employee of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility for the disabled in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, broke into the residential area in the early hours of the morning. After restraining staff members with zip ties, he proceeded to slash the throats of disabled residents,…
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By Suzanne Kamata Like many, I was appalled to read that a Japanese boy was “abandoned” in a bear-infested forest as punishment. I imagined a Hansel-and-Gretel-type scenario, in which an adolescent boy was led deep into woods, handed a sack of trail mix, and left to fend for himself. Like many, I was angry to…
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While watching the footage of the earthquake and tsunami at her home in Japan, Suzanne Kamata couldn’t help thinking about how hard it would be to push a wheelchair through the debris.
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Maggie Kast had to come to terms with the “R” word in her own life. In this post, she looks at different perspectives on its usage as a slang insult and as a designation.
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