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Disability and the Unfinished Homecoming
CW: Military Service, Suicide, PTSD, Cancer & Death Every Veterans Day, we honor the people who have served. Flags line the streets, parades are held, and veterans hear well-deserved words of gratitude. It is a day for saying thank you, but also for listening more closely to what veterans may carry with them long after…
The Real Measure of a Nation
There are ways to measure a country’s progress that rarely show up in economic projections. Sometimes the more revealing measure is quieter: what happens to people who need support when money becomes tight. Disability policy can become strangely impersonal, reduced to budgets, debts, and arguments over what a government can afford. That question followed Pope…
When Disability Changes the Game
CW: Illness & Injury Throughout his basketball career, Kristaps Porziņģis has built his future around what his body could do. Basketball rewarded him for asking extraordinary things of it, for its strength and endurance, and for its ability to perform at a level few people ever reach. When injuries came, there was a familiar story…
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