Disability and Voting
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Journalist – Historian – Speaker
This is the Voting Rights Restoration project. People with disabilities want to vote! They need more and better protections.
I will be traveling through Thursday. See you at the end of the week!
The week began, for me, with the Pope’s new encyclical. That story has been buried in the US beneath the wave of big news stories involving violence here and abroad, SCOTUS decisions, and flags. I posted a wonderful guest essay from historian Ellen Arnold on the ways in which medieval ideas about the environment are …
I have a new piece up with The Atlantic on the historic decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. It argues that the history of marriage supports, even mandates, change as societies change. We’re ready. History is with us. Love wins. Here’s the piece, with thanks to Anise Strong and Ruth Karras. — UPDATE – Anise Strong gave me …
The front screen door opened and then closed. I thought it was a package. But then I heard male voices on my porch. Was the delivery man saying hi to a neighbor? After a few minutes, when they continued, I opened the door to find a police officer on my porch, another on the sidewalk …
Many work wellness programs work like this – get regular checkups, hit various benchmarks of health, get money! It’s a way for business to lower their health care costs by rewarding people for making healthy choices. Except that according to the ACLU, these bonuses are basically closed to people with disabilities. Moreover, there’s no real …
David Johnson is my main editor at Al Jazeera America, so to the extent you appreciate the pieces I write there, you have him to thank (along with several brilliant assistant editors). All mistakes, of course, are my own! But he’s also a philosopher and what one might call an “alt-academic,” someone who took his …
I like books! I wrote a book (and think we need to reconfigure how they work professionally). Books are, however, notoriously inaccessible to people with certain kinds of disabilities, whether it’s because of vision issues of various sorts, motor control, etc. A group of disability studies scholars have published a letter on making books accessible, …
This is a guest post written by Ellen Arnold, PhD. Arnold is Assistant Professor of History at Ohio Wesleyan University and author of Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes. Follow her on Twitter. Read more of her work on this site here. The capacity to imagine a “whole earth”—fragile, surrounded by emptiness, …
Happy Father’s Day! Let’s fight the patriarchy. Here’s just one issue out of many in a new piece from Al Jazeera America. I am hardly alone in needing to find a way to make a lot of moving parts fit together. Working dads are so normal that we don’t even talk about it. A Google search …