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Jess MF Hughes, Ph.D.
@JessMFH
Critical discourse analyst, disability justice advocate, teacher, night owl. I study communication around disability, neurodiversity, & social justice. she/her
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Sep 9, 2020
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Yesterday, Salt Lake City police shot an unarmed 13-year-old autistic boy & the Rochester chief of police stepped down amid protests over the murder of
#DanielPrude
, another neurodivergent Black man in crisis.
nbclosangeles.com/news/national-…
cnn.com/2020/09/08/us/…
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This is why we need to say
#BlackDisabledLivesMatter
&
#BlackAutisticLivesMatter
. This is why we need to make sure that disability is a part of conversations about police brutality, because it's a part of the story at least 33-50% of the time. (See
rudermanfoundation.org/white_papers/m…
).
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