On January 7, 2022, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gave an interview to ABC News about the current state of the Covid 19 pandemic. When asked about a study showing how effective vaccines are at protecting against severe illness and death from Covid 19, she said: If… Continue Reading Classical Liberalism and Ableism in the United States’ Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Sign Language, Deafness, and Exclusion in Renaissance England
Were deaf people excluded in 16th and 17th century society? Examining literary and legal texts from Renaissance England, Rosamund Oates shows how prelingually deaf people were part of their communities and used their natural language–sign–to assert their legal and spiritual personhood. Continue Reading Sign Language, Deafness, and Exclusion in Renaissance England