Eugenics Archives - Disabled Journalists Association

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A student firefighter team, dressed in full gear, puts out a dumpster fire during a training exercise

5 disability-led newsletters to explain this dumpster fire of a world we’re living in

As a Disability-led organization, we think it’s important to share the wealth. Here are five newsletters that we...

By John Loeppky

October 16, 2025

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A newspaper clipping of a headline stating that Joseph Clifton Smith was sentenced to the death penalty in connection with a 1997 murder. The article includes a photo of Smith from the time.

Alabama wants to execute a man with intellectual disabilities. That’s unconstitutional, legal advocates say

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Hamm v. Joseph Clifton Smith. Smith,...

By R.L. Nave

October 8, 2025

Government

Side view of a woman wearing a headset and white shirt, working as a call center operator

After LGBTQ+ youth suicide hotline shut down, states scramble to step in

On July 17, the option shut down for LGBTQ+ youth to access specialized mental health support from the...

By Annie Sciacca, KFF Health News

September 29, 2025

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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