Featured Special Project Archives - Disabled Journalists Association

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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

Featured Special Project

How Disabled Journalists Work: John Loeppky

In this series, DJA journalists share their experiences and tips for getting their work done, how they find the industry...

By John Loeppky

September 8, 2025

Featured Special Project

Meet the groups fighting the growing ‘national scandal of destitute elderly, disabled people’

As housing costs rise, organizations responsible for people’s medical care are realizing that to ensure their clients have a place...

By Felice J. Freyer

September 4, 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