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Oz repeatedly attacked Fetterman over the topic of his health, most notably in August via a statement from his senior communications advisor Rachel Tripp in which Oz openly mocked Fetterman.

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Seemingly taking a page out of Fox News' playbook, Burns also called Fetterman's cognitive abilities into question, charges Republicans have run with full steam ahead. Demands of immediate response in the form desired as a sign of fitness for office is an ableist obstacle placed on the disabled by the abled. Total or partial blindness was the only other disability noted in records of politicians who reached federal or top state offices.īut aids available today make disability-whether permanent or temporary-no longer an obstacle for most speech, hearing or processing disabilities. Of those who have, the majority had mobility issues. Such attitudes could explain why so few disabled people have been elected to public office. The Impressionist vision, so beloved today, was once considered defective in every sense.ĭisability justice and disability design are inseparable, and both should prioritize the user’s experience.Many have called Burns' comments disgustingly ableist. The artist reflects on her rapport with her guide dog and techniques for drawing from memory and feel. Gossiaux, and Bojana Coklyat discuss their practices, followed by a pull-out print by Gossiaux. Writers analyze the means and motives behind five disability-related artworks.īlind and low vision artists Rodney Evans, Kayla Hamilton, Emilie L. The key to American disability justice is leadership by the disabledĪ 40-year timeline of disability art and moments that make up a movement.īy Sara Hendren, danilo machado, Jasbir K. View of Alison O’Daniel’s video installation The Tuba Thieves: The Drums, 2013–, at Kunsthalle Osnabrück. In this issue you’ll also learn that disability-design advocate Liz Jackson once claimed that “we are the original lifehackers,” and that artist Park McArthur considers unexpected encounters with the works of disabled artists “affirmation that our people are everywhere.” We all need to pay more attention. And, just as important, it sets an example for others. Gossiaux, created for this issue.) For the artists involved, making visual art is a decidedly political act. (You will want to frame the print that one of them, Emilie L. In a roundtable, a group of blind and low-vision artists confronts ongoing ableism and the deficiencies of Audio Description, while talking about blindness as more a generative force than an obstacle to overcome. Shannon Finnegan and Aimi Hamraie on Accessibility as a Shared ResponsibilityĮlsewhere in the issue, Aimi Hamraie traces the relationship between disability and design from the 1970s to the present, describing disability communities as “places where design expertise exists and where accessibility is aesthetic and experiential, not just a tool for conforming to the norm.” Elizabeth Guffey reaches further into the past, looking at the complex relationship between Impressionism and disability, with a focus on what it meant for critics to peg Impressionist painters as visually and otherwise impaired.