…community will be gathering together in cities across the globe to remember disabled people murdered by their family members and caregivers. Please consider joining us at a vigil near you….
…so poignant for me is what came after. Alison Davies’ sister actually defended the mother’s actions, and described this premeditated murder as “an act of love.” Even now those words…
Dear friends, This has been a hard month. The failure to indict the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor painfully illustrates the systemic racism in the U.S. court system and our…
…and support for the child victim of attempted filicide, media coverage has consistently attempted to excuse and justify her murderer and paint the person who tried to kill her–her own…
…caregivers. In the last 5 years, over 70 people with disabilities were murdered by their parents or caregiving relatives. It is imperative that the disability community be afforded equal protection…
Disability Day of Mourning is a chance for our community to remember disabled people lost to filicide, or the murder of a family member.. We came together with vigils across…
…came together with vigils across the country and the world to remember those we’ve lost to filicide, or the murder of a family member. You can read more about our…
…we attaching strings to the money? Even laws like “murder is illegal” have a fiscal component–the criminal legal system to enforce those laws doesn’t run without it. If our goal…
…Day of Mourning and how the ways society devalues disabled people leads to unspeakable acts of violence and murder. As she ended, imploring people to recognize that our lives are…
…ensure that Black people, especially Black disabled people, are no longer victimized, assaulted, and murdered by our criminal justice system. Although we continue to believe that improvements could make the…
