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Her father allegedly raped her developmentally disabled mother. She tracked him down through Ancestry.com.
Maggie Cruz is suing the New York agency that ran the facility where her mother lived and her fathe…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Jamie Foxx accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a New York City rooftop bar after she requested a photo
Jamie Foxx is being accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2015 at a rooftop bar in New York Cit…
Lloyd Lee,Sebastian Cahill,Ja…
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I have an invisible disability. The way men I date react to my handicap parking pass tells me how they'll treat me.
How men react to my handicap parking pass is a litmus for how they'll treat me; conversations about…
Meghan Bea
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The Equity Talk: Over 100 CEOs sign pledge to hire and promote more people with disabilities. Meet the woman leading the charge.
July is Disability Pride Month, an important time to recognize the work one woman is doing to chang…
Marguerite Ward
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Jada Pinkett Smith never kept her alopecia a secret. Here's how her hair loss began, and how she came to terms with it, in her own words.
Pinkett Smith first disclosed losing her hair in 2018 after receiving questions from fans. She's si…
Allana Akhtar
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Russia shells a Kharkiv care home for 330 adults and children with disabilities
A Russian bomb hit a care home for 330 adults and children with disabilities in Kharkiv. Many of th…
Bethany Dawson
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Living and working with a disability means after years of job interviews and résumé gaps, retirement feels as impossible as ever
As a woman and someone with schizophrenia, I feel as if I have two strikes against me each time I a…
Rebecca Chamaa
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A woman in wheelchair crashed down the ramp of a Carnival cruise ship after staff failed to help her, lawsuit alleges
The 61-year-old amputee said she was not helped by Carnival crew while trying to disembark the ship…
Sophia Ankel,Rebecca Cohen
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A woman was misdiagnosed with borderline personality disorder. 5 years later, she found out she actually has autism.
Bree Conklin was first diagnosed with borderline personality disorder when she was 27. It took her …
Julia Pugachevsky
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'I would die': People with disabilities say abortion bans could have fatal consequences
A lack of abortion access adds to the list of reproductive rights that have been taken away from pe…
Hannah Getahun
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A young woman injured in a car crash got flamed for receiving blood donations from dozens of civil servants, over concerns they were forced to become 'mobile blood banks for the rich'
State media says that Yu Yanyan, 27, was given a blood transfusion from "enthusiastic" Tibetan civi…
Matthew Loh
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2 women suing Disneyland say cast members laughed at their disabled mother before she broke her leg exiting the Jungle Cruise ride
Joanne Aguilar, 66, died in recovery five months after breaking her leg while exiting the Jungle Cr…
Matthew Loh
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A disability activist died from body sores associated with the loss of her $30,000 wheelchair that was 'destroyed' during a United Airlines flight, advocacy group claims
The wheelchair of Engracia Figueroa, 51, was damaged and she was forced to use loaner chairs unfit …
Bethany Dawson
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Meet Zebedee, the international talent agency for models with disabilities. They're on a mission to disrupt the fashion industry and redefine beauty.
Zebedee Management's aim is to promote disability inclusion in the media. Its models, such as Elli…
Joshua Zitser
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Family files lawsuit against Disney claiming workers laughed when disabled mom, who died months later, fell getting off Jungle Cruise
Joanne Aguilar's daughters say Disneyland employees laughed at their mother after she fell and brok…
Jordan Hart
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People assumed a woman in a wheelchair couldn't get pregnant but it was her husband who was infertile
On the 'Pregnantish' podcast, paralympian Mallory Weggemann and her husband Jay shared their experi…
Anna Medaris
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'Elf' makes fun of disabled adults through Buddy — whether purposefully or not
Buddy's potential disability is treated as an afterthought in "Elf," much like some disabled people…
Esme Mazzeo
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A 20-year-old first-gen college student with dwarfism shares how he landed an investment-banking job at Credit Suisse - and didn't let a disability stand in his way
After he graduates from UC Berkeley next year, Kevin Truong, 20, will take a full time position on …
Reed Alexander
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A 33-year-old woman with a rare illness died aged 33 after a doctor said it was a mental-health problem instead
Stephanie Aston, a 33-year-old from New Zealand, said her Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes was wrongly dismi…
Rebecca Rommen
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Beyoncé and Lizzo removed an ableist slur from their songs. The controversy exposed a rift between Black and white disability activists.
Beyoncé and Lizzo removed an ableist slur from their songs. Black disabled people told Insider the …