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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 10h

Access for disabled people is not a burden.
It is the excluders rightfully bearing the cost of the barriers that exclude disabled people.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 2d

Once you have called disabled people a burden, you have facilitated the devaluation, dehumanization and death of disabled people.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 29d

Limited or partial access for disabled people is not access.
It is exclusion.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 29d

“You don’t need your wheelchair. We have wheelchairs.”

Note to airline carriers, terminals, transportation providers, hospitals, medical providers and all others who need to hear this:

Wheelchairs are not interchangeable.

Wheelchairs are not one size fits all.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Sep 3

It is a sad commentary on our ableist society that, these days, the only access for disabled people that is prioritized is access for disabled people to die; assisted suicide and medical assistance in dying.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Sep 2

Nondisabled people should not be the arbiter of access for disabled people.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Aug 28

Tru*mp’s Answer to Homelessness? Lock Up Unhoused and Disabled People. truthout.org/articles/tru...

Trump’s Answer to Homelessness? Lock Up Unhoused and Disabled People.

New coalitions are forming to protect those targeted by Trump’s move to institutionalize unhoused people.

truthout.org

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

Q&A: Why physicians struggle to care for patients with disability www.statnews.com/2025/01/16/a... via @statnews.com

Q&A: Why physicians struggle to care for patients with disability

STAT spoke with researcher Carol Haywood about her new study that looked at the persistent ableism in medicine and its root causes.

www.statnews.com

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Jun 12

It is coercive for disabled people to be asked over and over again: “Do you want a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) Order?”

Nondisabled people are asked once.
Disabled people are asked repeatedly.

It is devaluation.
It is ableism.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Jun 11

Medical assistance in dying is not a medical treatment.
It is the infliction of death.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Jun 5

The fact that disabled people face challenges does not mean that disabled people are a burden.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Jun 2

The point is not that everyone is going to die sometime.
The point is that no one should die because their health benefits have been terminated.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Jun 2

Ableist language is not harmless.
It is a lack of empathy, the attribution of inferiority and expression of cruelty.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Jun 2

He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame. - ProPublica

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · May 1

How can we facilitate the death of disabled people when we have a government and a society that does not facilitate life for disabled people?

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Apr 27

For far too long, nondisabled people have defined access, accommodation and equity for disabled people.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Apr 15

Ableism is not just a belief.
It is a weapon of destruction targeting the lives of disabled people.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Apr 2

Access for disabled people is not an advantage.
It is an equalizer.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Apr 1

HHS firings undermine federal government’s ability to care for vulnerable Americans and put disabled people at risk www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h... via @statnews.com

HHS firings undermine federal government's ability to care for vulnerable Americans

Layoffs across health agencies could disrupt the flow of millions of dollars in grants and critical services for Americans with disabilities.

www.statnews.com

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · Mar 30

If you were a prospective client, would you rather hire a law firm that is willing to fight to defend you from clearly lawless action, or one that sells out your interests out of fear and greed?

Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump

If law firms won’t defend the rule of law, who will?

www.nytimes.com

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Mar 21

Disabled people are more than 25% of the population.
It is a cruel blow when government tries to disappear 1 out of 4 people who have disabilities.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Mar 15

The lack of access for disabled people is not accidental or inadvertent.
It is a choice.
A knowing choice to exclude disabled people.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Mar 15

The government “guidance” to make the word “disability” disappear is not just semantic.
It is the precursor to making disabled people disappear.

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hijade2madre.bsky.social @hijade2madre.bsky.social · Mar 12

35 years ago 1000 people marched from the White House to the Capitol to demand Congress pass the ADA. Activists left their mobility devices & crawled up the Capitol steps in protest of inaccessible architecture. The ADA was signed into law 4 months later. I honor them today ♿️✊🏽

Then eight-year-old Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins crawling up the stairs with a group of activists

Another view of the crowd in various locations on the stairs, some being assisted by other people

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · Mar 12

I’m disabled. I’m terrified about what Medicaid cuts could mean for my life www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/m... via @statnews.com

I’m disabled. I’m terrified about what Medicaid cuts could mean for my life

Medicaid cuts could force disabled people out of the public sphere and into nursing homes. People like me.

www.statnews.com

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