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Lois Curtis Center
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Services, supports, and guidance at the intersection of systemic racism and disability.

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The ADA Didn't Save Lois... and #FreeOurPeople Didn't, Either.
Read this week's blog here:

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The ADA Avoids the Intersection of Systemic Racism and Disability Trauma causes disability.  Trauma exacerbates disability.    And many Black and Brown people who find themselves at the intersection of systemic racism and trauma find themselves facing a door to the disability community that is seemingly locked shut. This exclusion has led to the significant skewing of understanding regarding the disability experience that is at the core of disability research, policy, legislation, service provision, and advocacy. It ensures that Black and Brown people with disabilities, particularly those grappling with cPTSD and/or other trauma-induced disabilities, are woefully pathologized and criminalized by #BigDisCo and society, as a whole. The preschool to prison pipeline, police violence, and exploitative prison subminimum wage practices are, therefore, disability issues, whether decisionmakers within #BigDisCo want to acknowledge them or not as such. (They don’t)
July 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Read- and share!- this week's blog, "The HCBS provision #BigDisCo isn’t talking about, or, did the federal government just create a funding stream for the newest stop on the preschool to prison pipeline while nobody was looking?":

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Anyone with a vested interest in disability rights, criminal justice, labor exploitation, systemic racism, the preschool to prison pipeline, and/or “at-risk” youth should, at least, have a passing curiosity about “wellness farms”, about which RFK Jr proudly stated: “Wellness farms are my ‘Peace Corps’… they are going to be my major program.” The prospect of developing a community-based wellness farm system as a Home and Community Based "alternative" for children should be incredibly alarming to advocates who for years have pushed for de-institutionalization and control over decision-making for disabled people. Unless, of course, #FreeOurPeople doesn’t apply to these people.
July 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Check out this week's blog, "White Supremacy on Wheels":

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Nearly any attempts by Black and Brown people to speak about racism in disabled/ity spaces results in disciplinary action (if they are employed in the space), alienation (if they are seeking community), gatekeeping from racially marginalized peers, and demonization. This was the case when there are no melanated people at the table. it is the case when DEI has resulted in superficial changes to the racial makeup at the table. And, as long as #BigDisCo joins the rest of society in upholding and maintaining the oppressive system by merely working to make it wheelchair accessible, it will remain the case.
June 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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"Join the co-founders of a pioneering organization as they shed light on the often-overlooked manifestations of white supremacy and inspire us to work together towards a brighter, more inclusive tomorrow."

Register at:

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WHITE SUPREMACY ON WHEELS Reyma McCoy Hyten and Ami Hyten Topeka, KS Join the co-founders of the ONLY disability service provider in the US that is openly and freely operating at the intersection of systemic racism and disability in a presentation on the manifestation of white supremacy that nobody wants to talk about. June 25, 2025 STRATEGY AND SOLIDARITY 2025 GLOBAL SUMMIT
June 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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It takes a village to uphold and maintain the oppressive system.

Read this week's blog from the LCC, "There Will Never Be Another George Floyd", here:

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If George Floyd’s murder has revealed anything, it’s this: the Powers That Be, including #BigDisCo leadership, in a moment of perceived loss of control in 2020, made promises that threatened the status quo. They then spent the Biden years refortifying the status quo- including making it slightly more racially diverse in the interest of giving melanated people who are more invested in their careers than in their communities the incentive to uphold and maintain the oppressive system (“It’s not racism if the one doing the oppressing on behalf of the oppressive system is a member of the oppressed class…”)- to ensure that the powerlessness they felt in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder would never, ever, befall them again. Their efforts have ensured that there will never be another George Floyd. Not because the oppressive system has been dismantled and police have stopped killing Black people- that’s happened hundreds of times since May 25th, 2020. But because, as we saw with the 2023 murder of Tyre Nichols by five police officers- all of whom were, like Tyre, Black men, the oppressive system is now more Diverse, Equitable, Inclusive, and Accessible than it’s ever been.
May 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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HCBS is an immigration issue.

Download "Self Direction and Immigration Enforcement Guide" here:

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DO YOU USE IN-HOME SERVICES FOR SUPPORT WITH DAILY LIVING? If you use a program where you select your worker, schedule their shifts, tell them their tasks, and have the ability to fire them, you are an employer and your home is a workplace. If the person or people who provide services in your home immigrated to the US, they may be at risk for detainment/deportation. It does not matter if the person is in the United States “legally” or not. It does not matter if the person has all necessary work permits or has been naturalized. Any person who was born in another country, especially if that person has brown or black skin, may be impacted by immigration enforcement activities. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOU? It means that immigration enforcement can come to your home and try to take action against your worker. It may mean that you or your worker may be questioned or detained by immigration enforcement officers. It may mean that the friends or family members of your worker may be questioned or detained by immigration enforcement officers. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN YOUR HOME IS THEIR WORKPLACE Your home is a private space, not a public space. Immigration enforcement officers can only come into private spaces if they have a warrant. - Keep exterior doors locked at all times - Do not open a door to speak with any officers - Do not allow any officer into the home without a court warrant signed by a state or federal court judge, NOT an immigration officer. - If they have a warrant, have them slip it under the door, or leave it in the door while they move far away from the door so you can retrieve it and review it behind your locked door - You and your worker do not have to answer any questions from the enforcement officers - You and your worker have the right to an attorney and can refuse to talk to officers without one present - Video or audio record the encounter if possible If a worker leaves the home (tries to run or escape), they can be immediately arrested. RESOURCES TO …
May 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This week's blog has got a bunch of hit dogs hollerin' in the #BigDisCo:

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If #BigDisCo actually cared about transgender people, then #BigDisCo would have loudly and publicly fought for transgender people the minute Texas v Becerra was filed in September of 2024. It didn't. It's as simple as that. Meanwhile, transgender people continue to be left with the exhausting but necessary task of not only reading hateful rhetoric articulated by those who wish them harm but also reading between the lines of the performative rhetoric articulated by those who wish to use the plight of transgender people to appear "progressive" while they, too, cause harm.
May 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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4. Black and Brown members are held accountable for white members’ comfort and ease 5. Black and Brown members who are perceived as capable of exposing the community’s hypocrisy are avoided, ignored, and expelled for not being a good “cultural fit” in closing: many communities benefit greatly from being perceived as “inclusive”. these communities are, additionally, often funded and led by those that benefit the most from systemic oppression and, as such, have no desire to see the seismic shifts in society necessary for real inclusion. given the absence of accountability many of these communities operate with, they can sell themselves as being “inclusive” without actually doing the work. so, a Black or Brown member who dares to offer feedback about barriers to inclusion will only put a target on their back. we at the lois curtis center see IT and we see YOU www.loiscurtis.org
May 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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5 typical behaviors in an “inclusive” community that are actually toxic www.loiscurtis.org 1. Black and Brown members are punished for expressing any “negative” emotion or feedback and Black and Brown members who express positive feedback- and outright brown-nose, or “fawn”- are rewarded 2. Black and Brown members are dismissed and demonized for having needs that could expose the community’s structural and attitudinal barriers to actually being an inclusive space 3. Black and Brown members are policed by leadership- and peers- to ensure they are not threatening the status quo
May 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The Lois Curtis Center was created to intentionally serve and support people who have been historically excluded from the #DisCo (disability/disabled community). We are the ONLY disability service provider in the US that is openly and freely operating at the intersection of systemic racism and disability. Find us at www.loiscurtis.org (Image is of the Lois Curtis Center logo, which features a solarized profile of Ms. Curtis, as well as her signature.)
April 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The Social Media Model, Continued: Although social media is in no way an ideal gathering place for people- they are companies owned by plutocrats who willfully spread mis/disinformation, as well as penalize Black users for sharing content about racism, for instance- they (at present...) offer space for disabled people to speak with authority about their lived experience, seek out content that truly resonates with them, and connect with peers across the world while not being subjected to the pitfalls that typically occur in the disability community, which has, historically, invalidated life experiences that veer from its default setting: white, cis, middle class, neurotypical. This scares the disability community because it shows people that they no longer need a "middleman" to advocate for them- or to determine what about them is worthy enough to advocate for: they can create their own platforms and bring their message to the mainstream themselves. As they should.
April 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The Social Media Model: In the absence of dependable access to healthcare, disabled people who have fallen through the cracks created by the social model are taking to social media to find- and offer- support and guidance. This is especially true for neurodiverse people and people who have acquired disabilities as the result of trauma, who are often subjected to "medical model" thinking even from fellow disabled people who purport to support the social model approach to disability. And, unfortunately, it is, more often than not, those so-called "social model advocates" who deride the use of social media as a tool for individuals to seek out understanding of their disability/ies- in spite of the fact that the vast majority of individuals looking to social media for such supports are doing so because they are financially unable to seek out healthcare in clinical settings and/or have found that healthcare in clinical settings doesn't meet their needs. Additionally, many of these "social model advocates" are the same individuals that demand that disabled people leave their race (gender identity, etc) at the door and refuse to advocate for universal healthcare.
April 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The Hypocrisy of the Social Model, continued: Additionally, because the social model was designed by white disabled advocates in the 1960's/70's to meet their needs, it is not evolving to address the needs of disabled people in today's age. Millennials and Gen Zers with disabilities of all races experience shocking disparities in access to healthcare, services, and supports due to current economic realities that are only likely to further deteriorate, given the lack of universal healthcare in the US- and the radio silence from the disability community regarding this issue. Additionally, even if a disabled person is Black or Brown or young (or diverse in any way, really) and has dependable access to healthcare- including mental healthcare- it is highly unlikely that they will find practitioners who have received training in working with Black/Brown disabled people or had any meaningful exposure to research that centers Black/Brown disabled people, let alone find practitioners that are themselves Black/Brown, let alone also disabled.
April 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The Hypocrisy of the Social Model The disability rights movement, including the Independent Living component of it, has always only focused on addressing barriers stemming from disability only and has effectively demanded that Black and Brown disabled people "leave" their race at the door in order to gain access to the disability community. This, coupled with the fact that disability (including mental health) advocacy is largely absent from the civil rights efforts of Black and Brown people, has led to both the unique needs of Black and Brown disabled people being diminished, derided, and outright dismissed and has all but ensured that there are dramatic lags in community access to services and supports for Black and Brown disabled people in contrast to white disabled people, whose needs have, historically, been met by the social model of disability.
April 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The Medical Model vs the Social Model: Image is of two blurbs, one on left, one on right, and a cartoon of a male-presenting figure in a wheelchair in the center at the foot of stairs. Rail of stairs has a sign that says “WAY IN- EVERYONE WELCOME”. Left blurb: “Her impairment is the problem! They should cure her or give her prosthetics.” The medical model oof disability. Right blurb: “The stairs are the problem! They should build a ramp.” The social model of disability
April 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The Social, or Independent Living, Model: Unlike other demographic-specific movements, which are led by members of the demographic, the disability rights movement isn't led by disabled people, but, rather, parents, guardians, professionals, and advocates who are not personally impacted by disability. The portion of the movement led by disabled people is known by many as the "Independent Living (IL) Movement". It is here where the most concerted critiques of the medical model have occurred. The social model- theoretically- urges for society to change to include disabled people rather than society expecting disabled people to change in order to be included into society. The social model demands that lived experience be prioritized over medical professionalism and that, when a disabled person is in need of medical services, that they be able to access them in the community rather than only in an institutional setting.
April 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The Medical Model and the Disability Rights Movement: The Disability Rights Movement commenced not long after the Black Civil Rights Movement began to gain momentum with the intention of advocating for the inclusion of disabled people into mainstream society. Prior to the disability rights movement, it was taken for granted that disabled people lived in inpatient institutions. Advocates began to balk at what they called the "medical model" approach to addressing disability, which centered the authority of medical doctors over the lived experience of disabled people. Parents were encouraged by medical doctors to institutionalize their disabled children. Institutionalized disabled people, young and old, were subjected to overmedication, barbaric "treatments", and physical/sexual/emotional/psychological abuse. The disability rights movement pushes for disabled people to live in the least restrictive environments and for a shifting from the medical model to the social model.
April 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Lois Curtis Center, copyright 2025 www.loiscurtis.org THE SOCIAL MEDIA MODEL: SELF DIAGNOSIS, VIRTUAL SUPPORT, AND HOW DISMISSING SIMILAR INNOVATIONS OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL HEALTHCARE PARADIGM… is racist, ableist, and classist. Read on for more. (Image is of the Lois Curtis Center logo, which features a solarized profile of Ms. Curtis, as well as her signature.)
April 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Expect #BigDisCo to simultaneously return to advocating for accessibility via avenues outside of DEIA AND affirm to not engage in DEI activities...

They can’t jeopardize their funding, after all.

More here:

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#BigDisCo 's push for inclusion within DEI was particularly apparent during the Biden years when engaging in DEI rendered applicants for federal funding more attractive. This wasn’t done to acknowledge the shocking levels of inequity that personal care attendants (PCAs) and other direct support professionals (DSPs), workers that are, more often than not, melanated, female, and, increasingly, immigrants, that are pervasive throughout the disability services sector. This also wasn’t done in solidarity with melanated people with disabilities to acknowledge and address the barriers to access to services and supports that lead to a disproportionate number of Black and brown disabled people being cut off from Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) and, thus, vulnerable to institutionalization, incarceration, homelessness, and death. No, #BigDisCo engaged in systems advocacy pertaining to DEI to get an “A”- for “accessibility”- being added to the acronym. In fact, #BigDisCo ‘s history has always been fraught with exclusion and inequity when it comes to melanated people: despite the fact that the bottom rung of the disability services workforce is primarily comprised of racially marginalized people (Black people, who comprise 12% of the US population, are 40% of the PCA/DSP workforce), that is typically where racial diversity ends. A 2024 article published by the National Institute on Health (NIH) notes that: (t)hirty years of deinstitutionalization and the development of community living options would not have been possible without DSPs. Although life for people with IDD improved greatly, working conditions, wages/benefits, demands, stress/burnout, and trauma experienced by DSPs have worsened. Turnover and vacancy rates threaten the availability of community supports for too many people with IDD. DSPs from diverse racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds face significant workplace disparities. Meanwhile, #BigDisCo has done nothing to address and remedy the barriers to accessing disability services and supports: that particular manifestation of “accessibility” was not a priority when it pushed for the addition of the “A” to DEI during the Biden years.
April 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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According to this leaked memo, HHS grantees that engage in DEI *AND* DEIA activities will be defunded of federal funding.

Effective immediately.

What say ye, #BigDisCo ? Y'all spent the Biden years fighting to get that "A" tacked when DEI was lucrative, so...
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary Washington, DC 20201 Office of Grants Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources Room 511D- Hubert Humphrey Building 200 Independence Ave, SW Washington, DC 20201 ACTION TRANSMITTAL- INTERNAL Transmittal No: OG AT 2025-02 Issuance Date: April 16, 2025 TO: HHS Grants and Cooperative Agreements Awarding Agencies FROM: Dale Bell Deputy Assistant Secretary Office of Grants (OG) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR) US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Digitally signed by CHAD CLIFFORD S- Date 04-16-2025 17:17:24 -04’00’ SUBJECT: Department of Health and Human Services Grant Policy Statement (GPS) Update APPLICABILITY: HHS awarding agencies making discretionary and non-discretionary grant or cooperative agreement awards (collectively grants) EFFECTIVE DATE: Effective immediately. PURPOSE AND BACKGROUND: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) maintains the HHS Grants Policy Statement (GPS), which is incorporated as a standard term and condition of award on all HHS financial assistance awards via the Notice of Award (NoA). The GPS provides information on HHS agencies that make awards, the award process, and where to find and apply for awards, as well as legal and regulatory rules that apply to awards. This Action Transmittal notifies HHS agencies of an update to the HHS GPS and identifies a prospectively for new awards, not retroactively. Internal Only OFFICE OF GRANTS ACTION TRANSMITTAL US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ACTION: With this action transmittal, HHS agencies are notified that the HHS GPS has been updated effective April 16, 2025 to include the below term of award in the section titled “Civil Rights Assurance” (pages 18-19). Agencies are instructed to apply the following condition to all new awards effective immediately: Recipients must comply with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws material to the government’s payment decisions for purposes of 31 USC § 372(b)(4). (a) DEI means “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” (b) DEIA means “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.” (c) Discriminatory equity ideology has the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) of the Executive Order 14190 of January 29, 2025. (d) Discriminatory prohibited boycott means refusing to deal, cutting commercial relations, or otherwise limiting commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies or with companies doing business in or with Israel or authorized by, licensed by, or organized under the laws of Israel to do business. (e) Federal anti-discrimination laws means Federal civil rights law that protect individual Americans from discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, and national origin. (2) Grant award certification. (a) By accepting the grant award, recipients are certifying that: (i) They do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti- discrimination laws; and (ii) The do not engage in, and will not during the term of this award engage in, a discriminatory prohibited boycott. (3) HHS reserves the right to terminate financial assistance awards and claw back all funds if the recipients, during the term of this award, operate any program in violation of Federal anti-discriminatory laws or engages in prohibited boycott. Internal Only
April 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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RIP Victor Perez.

Our latest blog on the public health crisis everyone "forgot" about:

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Black and Brown people are twice as likely to die as the result of police violence as white people. Half of the people killed by police have one or more disabilities. And, despite commitments to law enforcement reform made at the federal, state, and municipal level coast to coast after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, more people are dying as the result of police violence than ever. Connect the dots and see the picture: police violence is not only a public health issue- it's a crisis. But, unfortunately, to say that the public’s interest in this crisis has waned since 2020 would be one of the greatest understatements in US history. By the time George Floyd was murdered in 2020, there had already been several high-profile instances of police violence against Black and Brown people, including those with disabilities, in the US. But outrage has devolved into indifference. Statements outlining commitments to addressing systemic racism, which used to be front and center on homepages for disability organizations five years ago are, today, are either figuratively or literally “404 file not found”.
April 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Black and Brown disabled people, as well as white people with significant intellectual/psychiatric disabilities, have been hidden away in congregate settings in contrast to white "it's my body that's disabled, not my mind" disabled people all along... More here:

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Lois Curtis, A Black woman with intellectual/psychiatric disabilities, as well as the namesake for the Lois Curtis Center and one of the plaintiffs who brought Olmstead to the US Supreme Court, herself experienced chronic institutionalization in the years following the Olmstead Decision. “Free Our People” never pertained to her or those like her. This was brought into shocking focus in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when congregate settings with predominantly melanated populations experienced infection rates that were at least double that of similar facilities with mostly, if not exclusively white populations. #BigDisCo has always pushed for a movement that prioritizes and creates a system that centers middle and upper class white children and adults whose are disabled in body, but not in mind. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is not intersectional. Neither is the Olmstead Decision. These historic civil rights developments offer no protections to individuals who experience barriers accessing disability services that are rooted in racism. Efforts further entrench and reinforce the rights extended in the ADA and Olmstead such as the “LaTonya Reeves Freedom Act” ignore existing institutional racial biases, offering melanated disabled folks the chance to have their experiences of disability validated as they languish in institutions of all kinds. And #BigDisCo’s fervor to “free our people” shows time and again that institutionalization is only worth fighting against for a very specific demographic of “our people.”
April 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Four years ago, ACLs political appointees were briefed on the points that rendered ACL vulnerable in the eyes of the 1st Trump administration. None of those points were addressed during the Biden years. Trump was reelected.

And now ACL is gone.

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One of #BigDisCo’s arguments pertaining to the creation of ACL was that people with lived experience were best suited to serving/supporting/advocating for people with disabilities. This imperative was coupled with Since many of the programs that came to comprise ACL operated with a federal mandate pertaining to representation of people with disabilities within the staff and/or boards of program grantees, housing all of these programs within the same federal agency would, therefore, create something unprecedented at the federal level: an administration that serves the professionals with disabilities that, in turn, serve people with disabilities. Couple this with the imperative articulated by the Government Accountability Office (GAO): “ACL was created, in part, to help manage fragmentation among federal programs that help people who are aging or have disabilities live independently.” Laudable intentions, indeed. However, instead of advancing the status of disabled people, as well as building bridges between all of the federal factions that administer programming for aging and disabled populations, ACL and its programs created a parallel- and secretive- system of divisiveness and oppression, albeit wheelchair accessible. GAO noted in 2022 that “(ACL) has not identified a mechanism to sustain efforts to share… information among agencies... ACL has not used its existing network of disability organizations and providers to share information... By facilitating information sharing across federal programs and among its own disability network, ACL could better help all groups… to safely age and live in their homes and communities.”
April 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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A resource that succinctly articulates the systemic experience of Black and Brown people in nonprofit/social service environments- both those who fight for change, as well as those who fawn to not "rock the boat"...
LIFE CYCLE CHART OF MELANATED PEOPLE, “INCLUSIVE” SPACES 1. Love Bomb -The melanated person enters the space -They are inundated with praise for simply inhabiting the space -They feel cautiously optimistic 2. Devalue -The melanated person points out issues within the space -They attempt to use existing channels/protocol to make their feedback known -They push for accountability -the space’s members deny/ignore/pretend not to see -the space’s members demand that the melanated person come up with solutions -the space’s members recruit other melanated people to discredit the melanated person 3. Discard -the space’s members decide that the melanated person is the problem and swarm them -they are labeled “divisive”, “combative”, “attitudinal”, and “not one of us” -they exit the space, either involuntarily or for the sake of their mental health -they are replaced by another melanated person- or a white woman- who is perceived to be less “divisive” -the less “divisive” melanated person enters the LOVE BOMB phase and the process begins again
April 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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At the Lois Curtis Center, we honor all modes of advocacy, and we remind folks that every act of resistance disrupts.
Wanting to think about accessible ways to take up resistance? View our resource, "LCC Activism Guide", here:

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All the barriers experienced by disabled, Black and brown, and multiply marginalized people wanting to participate in direct action activism in 2020 remain in 2025. Physical, environmental, and communication access barriers, as well as continued concerns about exposure to COVID and other highly transmissible diseases, may limit the ability of disabled people to participate in direct action protest. In the midst of all this, Big #DisCo continues to prioritize white, middle class cis people with disabilities- to the point of actively engaging in racism and transphobia under the guise of “advocating” for its target population. Yet the threats to programs, services, protections that are saturating the very thin social safety net are more present and more pervasive than ever. Ultimately, even white, middle class cis disabled people will not be able to be “carved out” of what’s to come. What can be done? More importantly, what can be done by the people who will be most impacted by current political, economic, and social threats? Most of whom are just trying to get by in the crappy systems we have now…
March 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM