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Apr 28

A Disability Justice Approach to Mental Health Crisis Response: What True Alternatives Require

Part 3 in a Series on Mental Health Crisis Response

On a city sidewalk in Oakland, CA, a MACRO program responder kneels beside a person on the ground while another responder stands nearby and another person offers a supportive hug.

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Mar 26

From Veterans to Wards: The New Guardianship Pipeline

By Kate Caldwell

Black-and-white photograph of disabled World War II veterans in wheelchairs protesting on a New York City sidewalk, holding handmade signs reading ‘Don’t Let Us Down,’ ‘Keep Faith With Disabled Vets,’ and ‘Don’t Break Promises.

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Mar 11

Women’s History Month: From Suffrage to the SAVE Act

By Kate Caldwell

A collage-style graphic about voting rights and women’s activism. At the center is a black-and-white photograph of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer speaking with one arm raised and a button pinned to her shirt. Behind her, women hold signs encouraging voter registration. Purple stars and angled blocks of yellow and purple overlay the collage, blending archival images of women’s voting rights activism with modern voting rights imagery.

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Mar 3

Understanding Mental Health Crisis Response Through a Spatial Lens

How Geography Structures Care, Coercion, and Crisis Pathways

A large white dome surveillance camera is mounted indoors in the foreground, angled toward a busy transit concourse. In the background, slightly blurred, multiple people walk or stand beneath overhead signage and recessed lighting. The space has tiled floors, columns, storefronts, and illuminated signs, suggesting a train station or transportation hub.

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Feb 5

Abolishing DHS: A Disability Justice Imperative

When Immigration Enforcement Criminalizes Disability

Composite graphic depicting a protest scene with law enforcement in riot gear facing demonstrators holding signs about deportation and education. Overlaid imagery includes silhouetted figures, a historic photograph of Black families in front of wooden homes, and blurred text reading “Stop Deportations,” visually linking contemporary immigration enforcement to historical systems of racial control and surveillance.

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Jan 23

Case v. Montana and the Limits of Emergency Aid Policing

By the Center for Racial and Disability Justice

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Dec 16, 2025

The Landscape of Mental Health Crisis Response in the United States

By Jordyn Jensen

A Chicago Police SUV parked along a city street at night outside a stone and glass building, its blue-and-white markings and “Chicago Police” lettering clearly visible under dim street lighting.

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Nov 21, 2025

Health Justice for All: Your Job Shouldn’t Decide If You Live

By the Center for Racial and Disability Justice

Illustration of a diverse group of people standing together in front of a bright cityscape with the Statue of Liberty behind them. Several people hold signs that read “HEALTH JUSTICE FOR ALL” and “HOPE.” A crowd is gathered in the foreground, and rays of light and large clouds fill the sky.

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Nov 5, 2025

When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal: The Case of Sonya Massey and the Criminalization of Disability

By the Center for Racial and Disability Justice

A nighttime body-camera image shows a woman standing in the doorway of a light-colored house, lit by warm indoor light. She wears a long robe, patterned pajama pants, and slippers, holding a phone to her ear. On the porch, a uniformed sheriff’s deputy in dark tactical gear faces her, partly in shadow, his flashlight beam cast on the floor.

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Nov 3, 2025

A Rhythm of Resistance

Swing is more than music — it is resistance in motion.

A vintage-style illustration of a Black man in a 1940s suit leaping midair while playing a double bass, surrounded by crowds marching and protesting on both sides. Airplanes fly overhead, and the text above reads “A Rhythm of Resistance.” The image evokes swing music as a form of joy and defiance.

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