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Reyma McCoy Hyten
3 days ago3 min read
"Due to Unforeseen Funding Issues..."
Why are we OK with entities being financially dependent on others but condemn people who live in poverty?
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Mar 106 min read
Shining a Floodlight on Federal Bureaucracy
The cost of excess bureaucracy in the US economy amounts to more that 3 trillion dollars- how does this negatively impact poverty programs?
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Feb 226 min read
The Revolution Will Not Be Grant-Funded: On Doing “The Work” When Big #DisCo Won't.
Ultimately, the work you do with nonprofit organizations, including those within the #DisCo, should amplify your power, not usurp it...
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Feb 33 min read
Everyone Wants to be "Included"- Until it's Time to be Excluded
Although DEI as a business avenue has financially benefitted whites over Black people, white people disappear when it's time to malign it...
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Sep 22, 20245 min read
Environmental Racism: An Unacknowledged Cause of Disaster- and Disability
Black and Brown people acquire disabilities that are recognized by the ADA as the result of being redlined into disaster areas...
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Sep 6, 20243 min read
Navigating the Intersection of Systemic Racism and Mental Health Services
It isn’t unusual for racially marginalized people to feel like they walk away from therapy sessions feeling exhausted from recounting...
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Sep 6, 20244 min read
SPEDing While Black/Brown: On Special Education as an Aid in the Criminalization of Racially Marginalized Students with Disabilities
In many respects, the special education classroom is squarely at the intersection of systemic racism and disability in the United States...
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Aug 10, 20243 min read
Can you change the system before the system changes YOU?
“Democracy doesn’t mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals.” -Noam Chomsky
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Aug 4, 20243 min read
To Serve and Protect WHOM?
Can a position that was specifically designed to monitor, contain, and, when “necessary”, outright kill be reformed?
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Jul 27, 20243 min read
The ADA is Not Intersectional: Reflections on the 34th anniversary of the ADA, from the Lois Curtis Center
If you see one person with a disability, you’ve probably seen a member of the 5% Because anyone, theoretically, can join the disability...
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Jul 19, 20244 min read
The Hidden Hierarchy of Marginalization in the US
“Won’t Someone Please Think of the Old, White Men?” Although most people are familiar with “isms” like sexism and racism, an “ism” that...
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Jul 12, 20240 min read
The Lois Curtis Center is OPEN!
The Lois Curtis Center officially opened our doors to the public on Saturday, June 26th.
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