💖ASAN February Update 💖
…community will gather across the nation to remember these disabled victims of filicide – disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers. COVID-19 may have changed how we are…
February 25, 2022
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❤️ASAN February Update ❤️
…we’ve lost is fast approaching. This Friday, March 1st, the disability community will gather virtually across the world to remember disabled victims of filicide – disabled people murdered by their…
February 29, 2024
❄️ ASAN Winter Update ❄️
…crime and mass murder. We spoke out against this by submitting a legal brief addressing arguments by the Charleston gunman’s defense team that associate autism with violence and suggest that…
January 29, 2021
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May 29, 2021
❄️ ASAN January Update ❄️
…is fast approaching. On Wednesday, March 1st, the disability community will gather virtually and across the nation to remember these disabled victims of filicide – disabled people murdered by their…
January 31, 2023
❄️ASAN January Update ❄️
…disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers. Since 2012, ASAN and other disability rights organizations have come together to send a clear message that disability is not a…
January 31, 2022
Autistic Self Advocacy Network Joins Disability Rights Amicus Brief Opposing Physician-Assisted Suicide in New York
…by suicide, but also it can lead to murders by caregivers. We’ve also seen cases where doctors or guardians withheld necessary medical care because they believed that an autistic person…
January 15, 2016
Join Us For Your Local Vigil – March 30th
Most of you received Zoe’s moving e-mail message last week, announcing March 30th as a national day of mourning for George Hodgins, Tracy Latimer and other disabled people murdered by…
March 27, 2012
☔ ASAN April Update ☔
…community members, we were relieved to see Chauvin convicted for George Floyd’s murder. But justice cannot be reached with one verdict — we must work toward justice by transforming our…
April 30, 2021
The Pandemic is Not Over: Understanding the new CDC COVID-19 Community Levels Tool
…2012, Zoe created the annual Disability Day of Mourning vigil, a national, cross-disability event which commemorates the lives of disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers. She received…
May 12, 2022