Jess MF Hughes, Ph.D. Profile picture
Critical discourse analyst, disability justice advocate, teacher, night owl. I study communication around disability, neurodiversity, & social justice. she/her
Sep 9, 2020 23 tweets 11 min read
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.
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cnn.com/2020/09/08/us/… 1/ 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…). 2/