To the Editor:
As the Georgetown Disability Alliance Board, we are writing in response to Liam Jodrey’s “Respect Georgetown Mask-Optional Policy” to urge the student body to consider the immense...
Caitlin McDermott (COL ’23) was hoping for a Zoom class environment that was educational, interesting and respectful of her identity as a deaf student when she began taking the course “Forensic Linguistics”...
Georgetown University will hire an associate director for the Disability Cultural Initiative to increase engagement in disability culture and improve inclusion on campus.
The Disability Cultural...
A large number of Georgetown University students requiring special academic assistance have reported difficulties accessing these accommodations after the university transitioned to online learning in...
When I entered Georgetown University as a first-year, I was ready to walk away from the many inequities and challenges I faced as a visually impaired high schooler. I wholeheartedly embraced Georgetown’s...
Normally, we’d like to think of empathy as an unquestionably good quality. Understanding the why and how of another person’s emotional experience resolves conflict, supposedly moves us away from tribalistic...
Before starting college, I used to think of ableist barriers in visible and measurable terms. At Georgetown University, I saw inaccessible elevators, malfunctioning automatic doors and the lack of transportation...
When I arrived on Georgetown University’s campus as a freshman in 2016, the disability studies minor did not exist, and the primary way I thought about my own ability was as “not disabled.”
The...
Possessing magic is usually an empowering social exception. To use magic is to surpass the laws of the natural world, to be able to do what “normal people” can’t do. However, in the “Harry Potter”...
American voters see health care as the most important issue facing our country today, according to November’s exit polls. In response, Democratic presidential candidates have promoted versions of Medicare...
Toward the end of last summer, I stopped drinking coffee in the morning. It wasn’t, as one of my coworkers inquired, because I wanted a caffeine detox or a switch to tea. Instead, my insurance company...
It took me a long time to consider myself “disabled.” I know that sounds strange coming from someone who, wheelchair and all, is a veritable poster child for the term.
Yet growing up, “disabled”...
