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Sick Enough: The Burden of Synthesis

By Kayla Beaudoin There is a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn't show up on lab work. It lives in the draft folder: the email you've rewritten seventeen times,

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Beyond DEI: Normalcy, Power, and Why Inclusion Didn’t Change the Structure

In the past year, many institutions have quietly restructured their diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Offices have been renamed. Programs have been folded into human resources or “community engagement.” In some places, DEI

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What Institutions Call “Neutral” Is Almost Never Neutral

How Administrative Burdens, Medical Necessity Rules, and Insurance Design Decide Who Gets Care—and Who Is Quietly Excluded “All of the systems are set up to really dehumanize disabled people and not to

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What Disability Rights Laws Actually Cover—and Where They Stop

Many people assume that disability rights laws work the way other civil protections do: if a law exists, access follows. If something is illegal, it stops. If a right is violated, someone intervenes.

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From Fraud to Austerity

How "One Bad Apple" Stories Are Used to Dismantle Public Benefits Every few years, the same storyline resurfaces. A handful of dramatic anecdotes. A headline about fraud. A familiar warning that

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When Institutions Ask for Proof Instead of Listening

Why documentation replaces understanding—and what that costs There’s a moment many disabled people recognize instantly. You explain what’s happening. You describe what you’re experiencing. You name what you need.

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