Financial Slavery
By Kevin Nunez I’m a 35-year-old single male with a developmental disability. I’m a capitalist and I love this country but I am financially suffocating. I am writing this on…
Personal Touch and Why It Matters
By Jesse Schwartzman I am the type of person who likes to use real life examples to explain my points. If I bring up a real-life example, then it should…
A Seat at the Table
By Jesse Schwartzman Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to make a change so badly but you felt that nothing could be done? I have been…
Direct Support Professional Industry in Need of Overhaul
By Jeremy Einbinder A person’s disability can affect them in many ways, and many ways in which someone might need assistance. It’s important to support the civil rights and access…
Forced Poverty Does Not Help The Disability Community
By Jeremy Einbinder People with disabilities remain one of the poorest demographics, and poverty in general is a huge problem. It’s no secret that the minimum wages across the US…
How and Why Disability Bias Remains Pervasive
By Jeremy Einbinder The ways in which people with disabilities are discriminated against in society range from subtle to egregious. All different structures exist in the world that are built…
There Are No Fully Accessible Living Environments. What Can Be Done?
People with disabilities live in a world that is not made for them. They travel (or don’t) in cities and towns that are not made for them, they enter or…
Community Support, General Welfare, and the Issue of Autonomy
By Jeremy Einbinder Many facets of life could help ensure equality and equity for people with disabilities, and one of the most fundamental is home and community-based care. Given the…
Universal Design
By Jeremy Einbinder One of the ways in which people with disabilities might known that a product is easy to intuitively use or an environment is intuitively easy to navigate…
Where Are The Advocates?
by Kevin Nuñez Hello readers as always, I wish this brings a smile to your face for a few minutes a day. This blog post has a very specific target…