disability
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Department of Education Finally Starts Processing COVID-Related Discrimination Cases 9 Months Into Pandemic
Y’all, we all know the Department of Education under Betsy DeVos ain’t shit. The RC Cola version of Dolores Umbridge has decided that nine months into the pandemic and one month before she’s out of a job is the perfect time to start processing discrimination cases related to COVID. According to HuffPost, the department’s Office…
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Lupita Nyong'o on Us Doppelgänger Controversy: 'I Crafted Red With Love and Care'
After just delivering the highest grossing opening weekend film headlined by a black woman, you would think Us star Lupita Nyung’o would be on the highest of highs. But unfortunately, her performance as Red—the deranged doppelgänger of matriarch Adelaide—has drawn outrage from the disabled community due to its perceived insensitivity. In discussing the role, Nyung’o…
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The Glow Up Gaze: Mama Cax Is Redefining the Runway
When you meet model, blogger and advocate Mama Cax—Cax, for short—you’re not sure where to look first: at her gleaming brown skin and bald head, her sculpted features, whatever ridiculously sick ensemble she’s put together just to tool around town or her equally stylized prosthetic leg cover (one of 15 she owns)—a latticework of metal…
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Legally Blind Black Woman Outraged After Being Ordered to Sit in the Back of a Ga. Church
A Georgia woman is outraged at the way the church that she’d hoped would be her new home treated her, all because of her service dog. “They just left me no choice. It was like, ‘Either you move to that back pew or you leave their church,’” Cynthia Coleman, 58, of College Park, told news…