…people are born to be a burden on the rest.” Such ideas led directly to disabled people being incarcerated and forcibly sterilized in this country, and murdered in Nazi Germany,…
…if the people to whom it happens are disabled. Each year we mourn the deaths of dozens of disabled people every year whose family members and caregivers murder them or…
…had baked for it. But instead, Kelsey had found a post about an awful news story, a murder-suicide where a woman had shot her daughter and then herself. “Such a…
…had a right to murder Stephon even though he only had a butter knife and could not begin to be a threat to the police officers present. The police reaction…
…kill her autistic daughter and that there has been a notable increase in such murders in recent years. Many self-advocates and parents believe Autism Speaks to be morally complicit in…
…70 in the last year alone. Words matter. We are here today talking about murder. Any attempt to call it something else — to sugar coat the act of a…
…Now launched when we did because of the murder of George Hodgins,” replied Logsdon-Breakstone. “When we found out about the vigils, we settled on doing our official launch to match…
…people of color in the United States. Too often, murders of people of color are justified by the aggressor’s perception of a threat, so-called stand-your-ground laws, or by accusations that…
…at home and reading the names of four hundred and fifty eight murder victims with disabilities. Thankfully, video will be available from several vigils, including the vigil in DC. When…
…This “stolen child” stereotype has been associated with horrible abuses against individuals with disabilities, ranging from social cruelty to beating, electric shock and even murder. * The ads do not…
