"Stereotypes and stigmas are probably the largest obstacles for people with disabilities when it comes to finding and having a healthy love life." "Think about it, we spend our whole lives finding ...

What’s the point of working against disability prejudice — also known as ableism? Sometimes it seems like the fight against ableism boils down to little more than making sure not to offend disabled ...

Coauthored by Sofia Dixon and Kathleen Bogart, Ph.D. Hollywood sign Source: Edgar Colomba / Pexels / Used with permission When was the last time you saw a disabled character on TV who wasn’t depicted ...

TaLisha Grzyb, a disability advocate, and her husband Quentin were married in 2016. Shortly after their honeymoon, TaLisha discovered that she was pregnant with twins. From the beginning, she knew ...

A 1-day public workshop will explore how stereotypes and stereotype threat (i.e., the predicament in which an individual is at risk of conforming to a widely-known negative stereotype about his or her ...

A city's arts organisation is marking 30 years of the Disability Discrimination Act with championing slogans and artwork about deafness, disability, and/or neurodivergence (DDN). The Reasonable ...

MONONA, Wis. — A new community initiative in Monona is working to dismantle long-held stereotypes about disability through an event series designed to inspire confidence and understanding.

Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, drives his toy car in the frontyard of his ...

Possessing magic is usually an empowering social exception. To use magic is to surpass the laws of the natural world, to be able to do what “normal people” can’t do. However, in the “Harry Potter” ...

When TaLisha Grzyb met her tutor in college, she had no idea that she was meeting her future husband. “I was always very much focused on education, and even when he asked me out, I sort of told him no ...