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Ashley Castillo, a Black Afro-Latina journalist, stands in a pink shirt and jeans. She is holding a TV microphone and is smiling. Behind her is a street scene that includes people and trees

How Disabled Journalists Work: Ashley Castillo

Monday Before my tasks, I have a morning routine. I get ready, eat breakfast,...

By Ashley Castillo

September 17, 2025

Eugenics

From ‘Wellness Farms’ to Budget Cuts, How RFK Jr.’s Misguided Policies Threaten Disabled People

In his short time as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false claims about...

By Sonali Gupta

August 27, 2025

Eugenics

Director Reid Davenport, a white man with curly, short brown hair and glasses, and Producer Colleen Cassingham, a white woman with a brown bob wearing an orange jumpsuit, laugh together as they look toward a computer screen, which is just out of the shot. In the background, is an apartment with a full length mirror and an array of books on a shelf.

Life After: New film explores life before, during and after the right-to-die movement

Filmmaker Reid Davenport delves deep and goes beyond political debates over Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAiD, legislation in the U.S. and Canada

By John Loeppky

August 14, 2025

Eugenics

The Problem with Gavin Newsom’s CARE Courts

The Democratic governor has championed a system to address mental health and homelessness but Disabled Californians fear it could return us to the dark days of widespread institutionalization

By John Loeppky

August 21, 2025

Eugenics

PART I: Diabolical Plans

It was early 1939 — before World War II, before Adolf Hitler’s crimes against humanity were infamous — when a desperate man wrote a letter. The letter writer, ardent Nazi supporter Richard Kretschmar, had already tried and failed to convince a local doctor in Leipzig, Germany, to carry out what he wanted done.

By Lygia Navarro

June 18, 2025

Eugenics

Will Andrew Cuomo’s Nursing Home Scandal Come Back to Haunt Him?

Thousands died in New York City nursing homes following then-Gov. Cuomo's controversial COVID-era mandate. As the Democratic mayoral primary approaches, disabled people urge fellow New Yorkers to do one simple thing: Remember.

By John Loeppky

August 21, 2025