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This all could have been avoided if he kept a cordial, not to mention legal, line of communication with his employees.

Yeah. It’s Elon again.

Disability means something different in space, and AstroAccess is working to ensure everyone has a place in the off-Earth future.

The people who got the surgery arent too -- >> a lot of the tweets were about and these are from some -- somebody in "the washington post" said this, somebody, i think at buzzfeed said this. they were criticizing him because their point is that you should not try to correct yourself if youre blind or deaf or something, thats like ableism. its not worse to be blind. its just different and i would say if that was me, please help me. [ laughter ] yes. [ applause ] >> these also werent involuntary s...

The beginning of a new semester can be exciting and a bit stressful for all of us, whether we’re coming back from a challenging fall term or beginning our college

The social model of disability successfully turned the focus from biomedicine toward society. Is disability justice the next step?

Alice Wong, author of the 2022-2023 KU Common Book "Disability Visibility," talks about disability activism and hopes to educate students on societal discriminations against disabled people.

"I pushed the button on the battery-powered component of my wheelchair. It didn’t work. Before starting to panic, I pressed it again. Nothing."

We’ve taken our -isms too far.

Universal masking may be “an important tool for mitigating the effects of structural racism in schools,” according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.