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Casey Doherty

@caseydoherty.bsky.social
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she/her Disability policy by day, PhD student by night, building @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social by later night ME/Long Covid/Lyme/MCAS, PMOS, OCD+ Need masks in the DMV area? Msg me! Opinions my own. Reposts/likes not endorsements.

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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 8h
Enjoying an evening of poetry in community, in support of @lydiaxzbrown.com! If you live in MD District 7A or don’t but you care about disability justice, interdependence, economic stability for everyone, and more, check out Ly Xīnzhèn's campaign: brownformaryland.com
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Ly Xīnzhèn Brown for State Delegate – I'm running to represent District 7A because we deserve better.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 8h
I'm honored to receive the 2026 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society's Love of Learning Award! I do, in fact, love learning very, very much. I'm grateful for the University of Nevada, Reno and Phi Kappa Phi's support as I prepare for my dissertation.💙 phikappaphi.meritpages.com/stories/Case...?
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Casey Doherty Receives 2026 Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award
Casey Doherty of Reno, Nevada, was recently awarded a Love of Learning Award worth $1,000 from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society fo...
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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is strong historical connection between disabled people in Palestine and disabled people in the U.S. Both governments are utilizing the same policy framework of eugenics. That is why you can't free one group without gaining freedom for all. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Israel blocks wheelchairs bound for Gaza - ABC listen
Australian-made wheelchairs intended for injured children in Gaza have been barred from entering the territory by the Israeli government. Hundreds of wheelchairs have been sitting in Jordan waiting f...
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Literally leave us alone
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rainy weekend in DC - perfect time to hunker down and write my book chapter, “A Revolution May Be in Order": Disability, Authoritarianism, and Collective Resistance in the Project 2025 Era. #ScholarCrip
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hell yeah! @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social @disabilitylab.bsky.social Also honored to be featured on the front page with my besties Mercy & Courtney!🩷
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm hating the dunking on people being upset that one of the last safe(r) spaces for COVID cautious folks is no longer accessible to us. The "yeah, just recently loosened its masking mandate" chuckle makes me fume. The Venn diagram between this and the right is a circle... Do better @politico.com.
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politico on Instagram: "A Boston Globe story about a lesbian bar in Massachusetts loosening its mask mandate is getting so much attention that even members…"
A Boston Globe story about a lesbian bar in Massachusetts loosening its mask mandate is getting so much attention that even members of Congress are paying attention.Have resentments around mask mandates and COVID-era lockdowns laid the groundwork for the political climate we're in now?The Playbook team has more on this story that has become pure catnip for the right.For the full Playbook Pod episode, check out the link in our bio.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A federal judge struck down the community integration provisions of the Sec. 504 rule by HHS. This removes guidance on community integration, but Sec. 504, the ADA, & Olmstead do remain the law. Disabled people have fought for decades for the right to live in our communities. We're not going back.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Calling disabled voters from Pennsylvania! @americanprogress.bsky.social is looking for disabled folks from PA willing to share the accessibility of their voting experiences via a Zoom or written interview. If you're interested in sharing your voting story, please complete this form! #CripTheVote
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Share Your Voting Story
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Small win: over the years I have become much more comfortable simply finding a chair. I can’t stand much - my legs are weak and I’m in a lot of pain. I used to feel so self conscious about leaving/pausing a conversation to go sit down, but now I march my butt over to a chair no matter what. Growth!
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Important #ScholarCrip opportunity for our @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social community: Society for Disability Studies 2027 Annual Virtual Conference - submit proposal by September 20 at 11:59pm ET Link on our website!
disabilitypolicyfoundry.org
Disability Policy Foundry - #ScholarCrip
#ScholarCrip is a framework, community, and conversation about disabled knowledge production. #ScholarCrip challenges narrow ideas about who counts as a scholar and what counts as expertise. It cente...
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Had the best time at @fordfoundation.org Disability Economic Summit this week! Grateful for the time and space to be in community and fight for an economy in which all disabled people can thrive!
A group of smiling people in a mini Cooper convertible at night.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Happy #DisabilityVotingRightsWeek! Calling all disabled voters: do you have a voting story to share? Share your experiences with us so we can work together to advance accessible voting for everyone: my1.americanprogress.org/share-your-v...
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Share Your Voting Story
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you to all the voters who shared their stories as part of CAP’s Accessible Democracy Tracker. Learn more and share your voting story today: www.americanprogress.org/article/acce...
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Mapping Disabled Americans’ Access to Democracy
CAP’s Accessible Democracy Tracker identifies barriers to accessible voting across U.S. states as well as opportunities to strengthen election accessibility for disabled Americans.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A reminder from CAP storytellers and @aapd.com for #DisabilityVotingRightsWeek: Disabled voters matter.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Day 2 of @fordfoundation.org Disability Economic Summit - let’s go!!
Selfie of Casey, a white woman with blonde hair wearing a black KN95 mask, a pink shirt, and a black blazer in an auditorium.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Excited to be at the @fordfoundation.org Disability Economic Summit this week!
A conference badge that says “Disability Economic Summit” and “Casey Doherty, Center for American Progress” with “Speaker.” In the background is a stage, screens, and an ASL interpreter.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
an intense scientific debate
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you needed proof that cats are liquid
Tuxedo cat sleeping in a cream basket. She takes up the shape of the basket like a liquid.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Join the @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social community to get updates on new publications (new pub out this week!), #ScholarCrip opportunities, and information about submitting your policy ideas for publication. Complete this form to join us! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Join the Disability Policy Foundry Community
Produce Policy. Build Power. The Disability Policy Foundry is a new, nontraditional platform for developing, publishing, and advancing disability policy grounded in lived experience. Disabled people ...
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Really excited to speak at the @fordfoundation.org Disability Economic Summit next week - can't wait to see folks there!
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thank you to @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social Editorial Team member Meena for these graphics! So grateful for our team 💜
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yesterday, the Trump admin released a plan to make major changes to the U.S. census: leaving out undocumented folks and noncitizens from the census count, stopping the collection of race and ethnicity data, and removing questions related to sexual orientation. Outraged, and monitoring this closely.
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STATEMENT: The Trump Administration’s Proposed Census Changes Undermine U.S. Democracy
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Check out "Denied Relief: The Chronic Pain of Bathroom Bans" by Bo Belotti for @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social. Bo shares, “My chronic pain is...a policy failure that could have been avoided." Read this important piece here: www.disabilitypolicyfoundry.org/publications...
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Disability Policy Foundry - Denied Relief: The Chronic Pain of Bathroom Bans
Anthony "Bo" Belotti September 10, 2026
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#ScholarCrip opportunity: new Special Issue on “Global Disability Health Equity” in the Disability and Health Journal! Manuscripts due May 15, 2027. I'll share closer to that date too! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Moving soon and my cat is trying to pack herself…
Black and white tuxedo cat trying to burrow into a large cardboard box that already holds stuffed animals and pajama pants.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm excited to be developing a disability policy course that I'll (🤞) teach next year for University of Nevada, Reno undergrads. There is SO much to cover. If you have readings/videos/other media on US disability policy that my students shouldn't miss, please flag for me/send my way! #ScholarCrip
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Came across this #ScholarCrip opportunity: Call for Chapters: Music Science and the Neuronormativity Problem: Fostering Anti-Ableist Practices in Music Psychology, Cognition, and Therapy Complete form expressing interest by January 1, 2027 (I'll share closer to that date too)
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Call for Chapters: Music Science and the Neuronormativity Problem: Fostering Anti-Ableist Practices in Music Psychology, Cognition, and Therapy
Proposal Title: Music Science and the Neuronormativity Problem: Fostering Anti-Ableist Practices in Music Psychology, Cognition, and Therapy Main Author: Tara Allen; MA Psychology of Music, Co-founde...
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New Disabled South @newdisabledsouth.org · 01/09/2026
The Disability Policy Foundry (DPF) aims to democratize policy research, writing, and publication. We know that disabled people are already making policy change, and DPF gives them a platform to amplify their ideas.
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Disability Policy Foundry
PRODUCE POLICY.
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Ironbound @ironbound.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Man this guy sucks
Last September, when an aide told Fetterman that officials with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known as CHOP, wanted to meet because they were worried about Medicaid cuts, he was dismissive.
Fetterman
Why do I have to keep having to meet with chop
Aide
Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.
Fetterman
Well I'm not
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I'm convinced they just want free trips to DC
Source: messages reviewed by WSJ
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Important #ScholarCrip opportunity: The Black Deaf Project Internship Program - apply by September 6, 2026. Note: the attached Instagram post lists Friday, September 6th as the deadline - I'm unsure if that means Friday, September 4th or Sunday, September 6th. www.instagram.com/p/Dcj7zkqOMcm/
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Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Check out this new #ScholarCrip! “Black Digital Resistant Literacies: Examining Black Disabled Girlhood in Higher Education Through TikTok" by Prilly Bicknell-Hersco. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Black Digital Resistant Literacies: Examining Black Disabled Girlhood in Higher Education Through TikTok - The Urban Review
This digital ethnographic research explores how Black disabled girls and women use TikTok to narrate and resist racism and ableism in higher education. Using a purposive corpus of ten publicly availab...
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
CW: harmful language Seriously, using that term? Do better, @theatlantic.com. Image: A screenshot of an Atlantic article titled "The Vegetative Patients Who Are Still Aware." The cover image is two older people embracing on a bed.
A screenshot of an Atlantic article titled "The Vegetative Patients Who Are Still Aware." The cover image is two older people embracing on a bed.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sitting at my desk with my twinkle lights and spearmint tea, writing some #ScholarCrip ABOUT #ScholarCrip. The best way to end a Thursday!
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Time-sensitive #ScholarCrip opportunity! Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s Rapid Response Artivism Micro-Grant awards $1,000 micro-grants to support the creation of new, narrative-based artivism that responds to issues related to systemic racism and/or mass incarceration. Apply by tomorrow, Aug 28th!
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Rapid Response Grant — Broadway Advocacy Coalition
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My silly Sparrow sitting on my laptop and yelling, "Mom! No more work! Put down the readings, publication drafts, and @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social submissions and come snuggle!"
Black and white tuxedo cat with a bright expression and her mouth open, talking. She is sitting on top of a laptop on a bed.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Back to school for year 3 of my PhD! Let’s go create some #ScholarCrip!
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
re-upping this with an eye toward next month when i may get to speak with some folks who dealt with hydroxychloroquine shortages. if you've thought deeply about how lines of questioning can illicit different products and you'd be willing to take some time to think out loud with me, i'd be grateful.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New pub! The piece offers a framework for understanding the disabling effects of foster care & family separation, & draws attention to the National Research Center for Parents w/ Disabilities’ funding crisis. The NRCPD's funding lapses on August 31. Get informed, get involved, & fight back w/ us.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
An ICE agent directed Emilio, a Venezuelan Deaf man, to get onto a bus. He asked for an interpreter and didn’t get one. When he saw a Mexican flag, he realized he was being deported to Mexico, sans passport. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Trump’s deportation machine deprives Deaf people of their humanity
An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today marks 10 years I’ve lived in the greatest city in the world. DC, my dream city, the city where my partner was born. I hope to do my small part here. Here’s to 10 more!
18 year old Casey standing in front of Healy Hall at Georgetown University, holding a water bottle and binder.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Lots of ppl masked on the metro today!
Casey, wearing a pink shirt and white 3M Aura N95 mask, flashing a peace sign in a metro station.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A major part of @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social is that it’s home to #ScholarCrip: a framework, community, and conversation about disabled knowledge production. An important #ScholarCrip opportunity: Journal of Disability Policy Studies CFP, submission of interest due 8/15 Link on our website!
disabilitypolicyfoundry.org
Disability Policy Foundry - #ScholarCrip
#ScholarCrip is a framework, community, and conversation about disabled knowledge production. #ScholarCrip challenges narrow ideas about who counts as a scholar and what counts as expertise. It cente...
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bad news out of Texas: the conservative Fifth Circuit of Appeals argued in a ruling that the state's voter suppression law did not violate disability civil rights laws, letting the cruel law stand in its disenfranchising glory. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A Trump judge called mail-in ballots a threat to democracy
The new ruling revived cruel aspects of Texas' voter suppression law.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A major part of @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social is that it’s home to #ScholarCrip: a framework, community, and conversation about disabled knowledge production. An important #ScholarCrip opportunity: Journal of Disability Policy Studies CFP, submission of interest due 8/15 Link on our website!
disabilitypolicyfoundry.org
Disability Policy Foundry - #ScholarCrip
#ScholarCrip is a framework, community, and conversation about disabled knowledge production. #ScholarCrip challenges narrow ideas about who counts as a scholar and what counts as expertise. It cente...
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Lydia Rose @lydz.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026
This is fucking horrific
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Horrified but not surprised to see this new report from the Department of Health and Human Services. It attacks trans health care, medical providers, Medicaid, Medicare, and trans people themselves.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the DC premiere of Take Me Home! I encourage you to check out the film, which balances independence, interdependence, family, caregiving, and community.
A group of smiling people on a CAP-branded stage.Casey is speaking into a handheld microphone to panelist Liz on a CAP-branded stage.A wide shot of the Take Me Home panel in an event space, with the audience in the left side of the image and the panelists on stage in the right side of the image.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
When I’m having a high pain day, my cat lays directly against my back and it helps sooo much and she’s so grumpy but she takes such good care of me🥹
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