Last day to Submit your comments and protect 504/disability access!

I'll try to share takeaways fr challenging convos fr Alberto Vásquez & Akriti Mehta (Mad thinking); Vijay K; Dom Kelly (New Disabled South), Jo-AnnGarier, James Forbes, so many others. Hope also to share a syllabus/resource list I'm working on for Centre for Disability Law and Policy #16thDSS!

Join us tonight with Leah! zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🚨Applications are open for the 2025 SPARC Fellowship! In collab with our NDSR team, this free online program supports Southern policymakers in learning Disability Justice and best practices for serving Disabled constituents and communities! Apply here: newdisabledsouthrising.org/sparc-fellowsh…

“The Senate text cuts even more money from #Medicaid and will result in even more harm to medically complex and disabled children.” #ProtectMedicaid

SPARC applications are open til July 12, 2025!

The budget that passed today is expected to do a historic amount of harm to the most vulnerable communities. For disabled people, the impacts will be catastrophic. This moment calls for us to help each other survive and build the kind of world we want to see. Dom Kelly

we can build a better world. we have to care for each other. we don’t have to be beholden to corrupt politicians destroying everything every 2-4 years. we have to think radically different about what’s possible.

NDLPA & 65 partners condemn the Trump Administration’s withdrawal of a proposed rule to phase out subminimum wages for disabled workers. We call on Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to make good on her commitment to protect all working people. newdisabledsouth.org/14c #DemolishDisabledPoverty

DMV! Join us for Disability Culture Cabaret: Pride Edition—a night of Queer Disabled performance art and joy that was never given & can't be taken. Presented by Disability Culture Lab, co-hosted by New Disabled South + Crushing Colonialism. 18+. Tix: zeffy.com/ticketing/disa…..

at cafe buying a vegan pastry: cashier said, “i like your shirt.” i said, “i like that you’re masked.”

2025:

We hope to see you on the 21st at 6pm EST at this month's Fearless support group to connect and get resources for yourself or your loved one. Get the log in link at restore-georgia.org/connect/fearle…

Make no mistake, Republicans know EXACTLY how we can protect and expand Social Security benefits. They refuse to do so because it would require making their billionaire paymasters pay their fair share!

For Teen Vogue, I wrote about America’s favorite bipartisan pastime: starving people at home and abroad. As officials confirm what we already know, that there is a famine in Gaza, I hope we can all remember that none of this is unavoidable. It is a choice. teenvogue.com/story/famine-i…

Anyone can become disabled. Anyone can lose their job Anyone can become homeless Anyone can go hungry. These are not moral failings. They can happen in an instant. Most people are far closer to living in poverty than they realize. We must fight for one another

Social Security works for Baby Boomers. Social Security works for Gen X. Social Security works for Millennials. Social Security works for Gen Z. Social Security works for EVERYONE.