Dasgupta is the author of “Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins” and a professor of medicine at Boston University. President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have characterized the rise ...

The term ableism is gaining momentum. For instance, the National Institutes of Health is now calling for research on the effects of ableism on disabled people's health. But what does ableism actually ...

Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment. Approaches grounded in old medical and charity models of disability have long reinforced a status quo trapped in hundred ...

An important thing to understand about ableism that disabled people have limited choices in how to respond to it. Two main questions dominate most discussions about ableism. One is about what does and ...

How should non-disabled people who care about the wellbeing of people with disabilities respond to blatant ableism when they see it? A short video shared December 25, 2022 on Twitter shows a grade ...