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Ableism Disability Justice & Access Public Health & Policy

What Public Health Can Learn from Disability Justice

Blind community changed how I understood myself and my work in public health. In this lecture for Indiana University students, I explore ableism, access, autonomy, and what disability justice can teach our classrooms, clinics, and organizations.

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Consent & Autonomy Disability Justice & Access Sexuality & Relationships

Love Is Blind: A Blind Sexologist on Attraction, Flirting, and Consent

Netflix’s Love Is Blind asks whether love can survive the reveal. As a blind sexologist, my question starts earlier: how do I know someone is interested if I cannot see them looking at me from across the room? Let’s talk about flirting, sexual ableism, consent, and what “blind” is really doing in that title.

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Ableism Community & Advocacy Disability Justice & Access Public Health & Policy Public Record

When Ableism Becomes Policy: The Public Health Cost of Delayed Rehabilitation

Two DOR applications, no response, inaccessible government forms, and why disability service delays are a public health emergency. This post has three parts: the problem, my letter to Governor Newsom, and why I wrote it the way I did.

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Ableism Community & Advocacy Disability Justice & Access Public Health & Policy Public Record

LightHouse as Community Health Infrastructure: A Health Promotion Blueprint for Belonging, Blind-Positive Culture and Blind-Led Community Resilience

LightHouse is not only a provider of services to blind and low vision people, LightHouse is community health infrastructure. Its social model, blind-positive culture, community relationships, leadership pathways, and anti-ableism work are health promotion in action.

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Ableism Consent & Autonomy Disability Justice & Access Reproductive Justice Sexuality & Relationships

Video of my 2025 Carrie Buck Distinguished Fellowship

Reflecting on disability justice, reproductive autonomy, and the work to combat sexual ableism in our society.

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Ableism Disability Justice & Access Public Health & Policy

Blindness Is Not the Public Health Crisis. Ableism Is.

Why I Wrote to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. About Accessibility, Public Health, and Structural Inequity

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Ableism Community & Advocacy Disability Justice & Access Public Health & Policy Public Record

A Blind Public Health Professional Responds: Public Comment Section 504 Accessibility Delay 

On May 21, 2026, I submitted a public comment to the Department of Health and Human Services asking them to reconsider the Section 504 accessibility delay. Blindness is not the public health crisis. Ableism is.