The global adaptive clothing market is projected to be worth $348.81 billion by 2024, and women designers are among those leading the way.
Loreen Arbus — author, television executive, philanthropist, and advocate for people with disabilities — will be the recipient of the WMC Leadership Award at the Women’s Media Center Women’s Media Awards on Thursday, November 17. On the occasion of this honor, Arbus joined WMC co-founder Gloria Steinem for a discussion about leadership, advocacy, and being a groundbreaker.
Progress has been slow and unsteady, but activists are teaming up with elected officials to raise awareness and change laws.
Disabled women seem to exist in a world where sexuality is either denied to us even when we enthusiastically call for it or bestowed upon us even when we vehemently don’t want it.
A girl could have the most attentive parents and teachers she could ask for and still suffer from ADHD unnoticed by them.
Ableism has persisted too long in our society.
Growing up, Henley and her sister Zan received international attention as children because they were the only set of twins known to have survived being born with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition that causes the facial bones to fuse prematurely.
For the film, which won major accolades at Sundance, writer/director Siân Heder cast deaf actors in the roles of deaf characters and ensured the participation of deaf people in other aspects of the production.
The FBomb talked to Mason about her sophomore novel, family secrets, and why it is important to have honest conversations about topics many people want to avoid.
It’s freezing this week in the United States. And not just in the normally winter-frigid Northeast or Midwest. In southern states like Texas and Oklahoma, it has been in the 20s or lower.
Racial and ethnic grifting is a settler-colonial tradition that’s as American as Dutch apple pie.
Poor countries often have broken governments, shoddy infrastructure, and few systems in place to help when there is a mass crisis — which is why the U.N. Development Program found that there is a severe difference in how people are harmed during a climate disaster, depending on whether they live in a developing or rich country.
A hurricane hits. The terror and stress caused by the imposing wind and rain affect nearly everybody’s mental health, but perhaps none more so than expectant mothers. Then that stress and the pollutants whipped up by the storm wreak havoc on their bodies, and their pregnancies.
The conflict-torn Himalayan valley has seen a surge in mental health cases since the abrogation of the autonomous status of the region, with women among the most distressed.
Sandra Guimarães is a Brazilian activist for human and animal rights.
Reporters are experiencing trauma from covering ICE’s treatment of immigrants. But who's talking about it?
Wider implementation could help change the dramatic underrepresentation of women in elected office at every level.
The Americans With Disabilities Act, signed into law 30 years ago, should be celebrated as a landmark piece of legislation. But there Is much more work to be done to realize its promise in all facets of society.
Longstanding environmental policies are a factor in the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color.
As the U.S. tax filing deadline approaches, three recent reports reveal the tax law’s disparate impact on women and other groups.
On February 4, a Pan-African feminist lawyer (who would like to remain anonymous) decided she was tired of seeing manels day after day on Kenyan TV stations.
During the pandemic, governments have been curtailing rights—but activists are fighting back.
The Health and Human Services department is continuing plans to undo antidiscrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
While murder rates are falling in Brazil, femicide rates continue to steadily climb, and with President Jair Bolsonaro at the helm, there are no promising signs of the violence abating.
The disparate impact of the coronavirus on Black women is revealing and deepening existing inequalities. Fighting it requires an intersectional approach.
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