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Ableism Disability Justice & Access Public Health & Policy

What Public Health Can Learn from Disability Justice

What Public Health Can Learn from Disability Justice, by Laura Millar. Laura smiles beside her white cane. Text reads: Blindness is not the public health crisis. Ableism is.

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

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

Editorial illustration reading “When Ableism Becomes Policy.” A blocked application on a laptop sits beside a white cane, with California’s outline, a public health pulse line, government columns, and a narrow rainbow stripe in the background.

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

Image description: A black background with a white lighthouse on the left. The right side displays a word cloud in tan and gold text featuring “ACCESS,” “CONSENT,” “DIGNITY,” and “INCLUSION” as the largest words, surrounded by related terms including public health, disability justice, community, pleasure, advocacy, boundaries, and wellbeing.

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.