Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Disability is sometimes a challenge. Disability is not inferiority. 092
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Access for disabled people is not a privilege. It is a right. 0214
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 16/11/2025RIP, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf Alice was not only an oracle. Alice was a force. 0191
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 04/11/2025When you equate disabled people with burden, the lives of disabled people are always in jeopardy. 428069
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Don’t assume that you know the access and accommodation that are needed by disabled people. Ask disabled people. 310930
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Access for disabled people is not a burden. It is the excluders rightfully bearing the cost of the barriers that exclude disabled people. 040
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Once you have called disabled people a burden, you have facilitated the devaluation, dehumanization and death of disabled people. 335396
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Limited or partial access for disabled people is not access. It is exclusion. 0357
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2025“You don’t need your wheelchair. We have wheelchairs.” Note to airline carriers, terminals, transportation providers, hospitals, medical providers and all others who need to hear this: Wheelchairs are not interchangeable. Wheelchairs are not one size fits all. 412427
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 03/09/2025It is a sad commentary on our ableist society that, these days, the only access for disabled people that is prioritized is access for disabled people to die; assisted suicide and medical assistance in dying. 1236
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Nondisabled people should not be the arbiter of access for disabled people. 1275
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Tru*mp’s Answer to Homelessness? Lock Up Unhoused and Disabled People. truthout.org/articles/tru...truthout.orgTrump’s Answer to Homelessness? Lock Up Unhoused and Disabled People.New coalitions are forming to protect those targeted by Trump’s move to institutionalize unhoused people. 031
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Q&A: Why physicians struggle to care for patients with disability www.statnews.com/2025/01/16/a... via @statnews.comstatnews.comQ&A: Why physicians struggle to care for patients with disabilitySTAT spoke with researcher Carol Haywood about her new study that looked at the persistent ableism in medicine and its root causes. 051
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 12/06/2025It is coercive for disabled people to be asked over and over again: “Do you want a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) Order?” Nondisabled people are asked once. Disabled people are asked repeatedly. It is devaluation. It is ableism. 16717
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Medical assistance in dying is not a medical treatment. It is the infliction of death. 0102
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The fact that disabled people face challenges does not mean that disabled people are a burden. 29015
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/06/2025The point is not that everyone is going to die sometime. The point is that no one should die because their health benefits have been terminated. 0211
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Ableist language is not harmless. It is a lack of empathy, the attribution of inferiority and expression of cruelty. 0338
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/06/2025He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame. - ProPublica 010
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 01/05/2025How can we facilitate the death of disabled people when we have a government and a society that does not facilitate life for disabled people? 1258
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/04/2025For far too long, nondisabled people have defined access, accommodation and equity for disabled people. 05114
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Ableism is not just a belief. It is a weapon of destruction targeting the lives of disabled people. 0405
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Access for disabled people is not an advantage. It is an equalizer. 113124
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/04/2025HHS firings undermine federal government’s ability to care for vulnerable Americans and put disabled people at risk www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h... via @statnews.comstatnews.comHHS firings undermine federal government's ability to care for vulnerable AmericansLayoffs across health agencies could disrupt the flow of millions of dollars in grants and critical services for Americans with disabilities. 042
Reposted by Gregory MansfieldBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 30/03/2025If you were a prospective client, would you rather hire a law firm that is willing to fight to defend you from clearly lawless action, or one that sells out your interests out of fear and greed?nytimes.comOpinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to TrumpIf law firms won’t defend the rule of law, who will? 641556353
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Disabled people are more than 25% of the population. It is a cruel blow when government tries to disappear 1 out of 4 people who have disabilities. 0214
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 15/03/2025The lack of access for disabled people is not accidental or inadvertent. It is a choice. A knowing choice to exclude disabled people. 04716
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 15/03/2025The government “guidance” to make the word “disability” disappear is not just semantic. It is the precursor to making disabled people disappear. 16520
Reposted by Gregory Mansfieldhijade2madre.bsky.social @hijade2madre.bsky.social · 12/03/202535 years ago 1000 people marched from the White House to the Capitol to demand Congress pass the ADA. Activists left their mobility devices & crawled up the Capitol steps in protest of inaccessible architecture. The ADA was signed into law 4 months later. I honor them today ♿️✊🏽 17640
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I’m disabled. I’m terrified about what Medicaid cuts could mean for my life www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/m... via @statnews.comstatnews.comI’m disabled. I’m terrified about what Medicaid cuts could mean for my lifeMedicaid cuts could force disabled people out of the public sphere and into nursing homes. People like me. 0194
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Others should not be telling disabled people what it means to live with dignity. 0151
Reposted by Gregory MansfieldLawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 10/03/2025For years, #disability communities have fought for inclusion alongside other historically underresourced constituencies in corporate & government #DEI efforts. #Disabled advocates fear progress in #employment, #education & #independence will suffer in sweeping cuts. www.indystar.com/story/news/p...indystar.com'Utterly terrifying:' Disability advocates fear rollback of DEI under Trump, BraunThe disability community fought for inclusion in corporate and government DEI efforts. Now they're worried they'll be on the chopping block. 093
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2025When others control access for disabled people, they control every aspect of a disabled person’s life. It is the control of opportunity, freedom and humanity. 17215
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Inaccessibility is not caused by disability. Inaccessibility is caused by ableism, barriers and exclusion. 04316
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Hospital staff: “Can you park your wheelchair in the corner so you’re not in the way.” One way or another, disabled people are assumed to be “in the way.” 1324
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2025When you call disabled people a burden, you assign inferiority and unworthiness to the lives of disabled people. 05311
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/03/2025The access barriers that keep out disabled people do not arise from ignorance or inadvertence. Inaccessibility is the product of a desire to exclude, isolate and segregate disabled people. 0246
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Disabled people should not have to make a deal to get access. 0372
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 28/02/2025It is a travesty of justice that legislatures debate whether to expedite the death of disabled people and disabled people are largely excluded from that process. 0103
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Access for disabled people is not optional. 0367
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/02/2025If I, as a disabled person, post something referring to “disabled people,” don’t correct me by arguing that I should say “people with disabilities.” My identity is my choice. 1741945
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Access for disabled people is not preferential treatment. Exclusion of disabled people is punitive treatment. 222854
Reposted by Gregory MansfieldGregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Disabled people are not a waste. Disabled people are not parasites. Disabled people are not a burden. The ultimate waste is the devaluation and dehumanization of 25% of the population. 6369101
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Disabled people are not a waste. Disabled people are not parasites. Disabled people are not a burden. The ultimate waste is the devaluation and dehumanization of 25% of the population. 6369101
Reposted by Gregory MansfieldEb @ebthen.bsky.social · 06/09/2023I'm actually pretty angry about this idea that people "going off" about inaccessibility are in the wrong. Telling Disabled people to ask nicely for accessibility or fix it ourselves is how we got 33 years out from the ADA in the US and compliance is still considered optional. 37226
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Why are disabled people villainized and demonized for wanting access to everything others have and take for granted? 614119
Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 15/02/2025The access of disabled people should not depend on the assent of nondisabled people. 0257