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THE CLASS OF
2020 GRAD
DACAVIEN REEVES
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
Memphis
19.5%: Percentage of employers who
have rescinded full-time job offers or
are considering it

THE advocating for forever. You
DISABILITY- see artists streaming perfor-
mances. You see people work-
RIGHTS ing remotely. When disabled
ACTIVIST people asked for those very
ALICE WONG reasonable accommoda-
FOUNDER, DISABILITY tions, we’ve been told, “You
VISIBILITY PROJECT can’t do that. It’s too hard.”
San Francisco Twice I was invited to be on a
66 CENTS: The amount a worker panel at South by Southwest,
with a disability earns for and each time I said, “I don’t
every dollar a person without a
disability earns. travel. I want to do this via
Skype.” Both times I was told “WE MUST TALK TO
no. “There are too many
issues.” That was the excuse!
W H E N T H E PA N DE M IC MY HOPE for coming out of LIVES WILL BE SAVED
began in this country, it was this pandemic is that we
like, “Don’t worry, it’s only don’t return to the status
life-threatening for those who quo. Many don’t realize that
are high-risk. It’s just a bad flu “normal” was actually not
for the rest of us.” In this crit- great for a lot of people. Just THE AUTOCRAT
ical time, when scarcity is a because all of the nondis- WHISPERER
reality, you see the hierarchy. abled people go back to FIONNUALA
Certain groups are valued work—or to Burning Man, or NÍ AOLÁIN
over others. This is the world to Coachella—that doesn’t UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON COUNTER-
that so many disabled and mean we should stop think- TERRORISM & HUMAN RIGHTS
chronically ill people already ing about accessibility. Minneapolis
live in. Our lives are still seen —As told to Madison Vain 70 TO 90%: Percentage of Americans willing to
yield certain freedoms to support public mea- EDDIE HERNANDEZ PHOTOGRAPHY (WONG). COUR-
as expendable. Now the mag-
sures to slow the virus
nitude is much greater. TESY SUBJECTS (REEVES X2, NÍ AOLÁIN).
T H I S PA N D E M I C H A S
brought about changes to
accessibility for things that
disabled people have been

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