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1. The problem with Queer Eye’s episode about disability - Quartz

   The problem with Queer Eye’s episode about disability  Quartz

   On July 19, Netflix released the fourth season of its hit show Queer Eye. In episode two, titled “Disabled but Not Really,” we meet the first visibly, explicitly...

2. Disability Is More Than a Physical Status – Letters - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education

   Disability Is More Than a Physical Status – Letters - Blogs  The Chronicle of Higher Education

   To the Editor: I found the essay “My 5-month Interlude as a Disabled Professor” (The Chronicle, July 15) extremely problematic for a publication that aims to...

3. Disability Rights OR says negligence by prison nurses, medical staff caused inmate's death - OregonLive

   Disability Rights OR says negligence by prison nurses, medical staff caused inmate's death  OregonLive

   Disability Rights Oregon investigated Michael Barton's death after a prison employee and other inmates alerted the group that they were haunted by the...

4. Trump Administration Cautioned Against Changing IDEA Policy - Disability Scoop

   Trump Administration Cautioned Against Changing IDEA Policy  Disability Scoop

   Disability advocates and former federal special education officials are warning of possible Trump administration moves to alter policy related to a central tenet of...

5. People With Disabilities Want To Help Make Over The Travel Industry - Forbes

   People With Disabilities Want To Help Make Over The Travel Industry  Forbes

   As a person with a disability it baffles me that a law passed nearly 30 years ago is still considered kind-sorta-maybe-sometimes enforceable.