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Graphic with a black background. Photo of a memorial plaque at Tiergartenstraße 4 in Berlin. The inscription reads: “Honor to the forgotten victims. At this site, at Tiergartenstraße 4, the first National Socialist mass murder was organized starting in 1940, named after this address: Aktion T4. From 1939 to 1945, almost 200,000 defenseless people were killed. Their lives were described as ‘unworthy of life,’ their murder called euthanasia. They died in the gas chambers of Grafeneck, Brandenburg, Hartheim, Pirna, Bernburg, and Hadamar; they died by firing squads, by deliberate starvation, and by poison. The perpetrators were scientists, doctors, nurses, members of the judiciary, the police, and of the health and labor administrations. The victims were poor, desperate, defiant, or in need of help. They came from psychiatric clinics and children’s hospitals, from nursing homes and welfare institutions, from military hospitals and camps. The number of victims was vast; the number of perpetrators convicted was very small.”
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When coercion in care makes Kilmeade’s “just kill ’em” thinkable

When coercion in care makes Kilmeade’s “just kill ’em” thinkable   Shannon Pagdon  Content warnings: coercion, forced treatment, incarceration, institutionalization, eugenics, death, lethal injections, state violence, homelessness   On September … Continue Reading When coercion in care makes Kilmeade’s “just kill ’em” thinkable

Graphic with a black background with a photo of a monument on the grounds of Napa State Hospital in Northern California. It consists of several gray pillars with black displays with white texts, too far away to read. In the foreground are several large spiky succulent plants. In the background are a wooden fence and trees underneath a blue sky.
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“Still A Locked Door”: Mental Health Peer Advocates Remember Those Living in Disability Institutions

“Still A Locked Door”: Mental Health Peer Advocates Remember Those Living in Disability Institutions Jess Whatcott For the staff at the Peer Self-Advocacy Program of Disability Rights California, experiences with … Continue Reading “Still A Locked Door”: Mental Health Peer Advocates Remember Those Living in Disability Institutions

Divided picture—Bold, Brave, and Breathless book cover on the right. On left: Margaret is in a purple printed dress, white shoes and sweater. She is Caucasian and has brown bobbed hair. She is smiling while sitting in a motorized wheelchair that has a communication device (tablet) mounted on a silver bar in front of her. She is sitting in front of a table covered with copies of her book Bold, Brave, and Breathless, along with purple and white balloons floating above the books. She is in a library with full shelves of books lining the walls.
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My Disability Was Used as a Synonym for an ‘Undesirable’ Characteristic. Will You Join Me in Obliterating This Logic?

My Disability Was Used as a Synonym for an ‘Undesirable’ Characteristic. Will You Join Me in Obliterating This Logic?   Margaret Anne Mary Moore Content warning: The R word, ableist … Continue Reading My Disability Was Used as a Synonym for an ‘Undesirable’ Characteristic. Will You Join Me in Obliterating This Logic?

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Empathy to fight colonial abhorrence and amnesia: global solidarity with and disability justice in Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo as moral imperative

Empathy to fight colonial abhorrence and amnesia: global solidarity with and disability justice in Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo as moral imperative   Nelly Bassily   Dying … Continue Reading Empathy to fight colonial abhorrence and amnesia: global solidarity with and disability justice in Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo as moral imperative