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Disability is an Immigration Issue. Immigration is a Disability Issue.
After decades of intimately correlating #BigDisCo’s civil rights movement work to the ability of HCBS beneficiaries to employ their own direct LTC providers and live in the community, not an institution, the current, unmitigated SILENCE on the attack against immigrants on the part of ANY disability advocacy groups or leaders is curious for one significant reason...
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
May 113 min read


ACL, We Hardly Knew Thee...
ACL is dead. But, with the exception of Meals on Wheels, you likely have never heard of the majority, if not any, of its programs. Why?
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Reyma McCoy Hyten
Mar 314 min read


The Revolution Will Not Be Grant-Funded: On Doing “The Work” When #BigDisCo 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 226 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
Feb 33 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 22, 20245 min read
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