THE ACCOMMODATION PROBLEM
Client: Cooper Therapy
Role: editorial development, structural editing, and ghostwriting support
The voices of disabled folks have been stifled for a very long time.
Disabled people can live beautiful, fulfilling lives. Disabled people can be smart and funny. Disabled people have friends, and moms, and pets…
Disabled people have also been historically pushed out of public life, shut into their homes, under-supported, underpaid, and expected to survive on far less than what is needed to live with dignity.
And still, disabled communities have continued to advocate, organize, and push for access in a world that has made that access unnecessarily hard. Thanks to the trails blazed by many who have come before us, and to many others who are still alive and continuing to advocate, accommodations for those with disabilities have continued to become more and more normalized. Heck – there are whole jobs made to support DEI these days (insert joke about DEI cuts in Ontario? Maybe not… too soon.)