#disability-access

#disability-access

Oaklanders often criticize the news media for focusing disproportionately on the horrifying or the scandalous. And let's face it: this is a complicated city with its share of challenges to overcome. At The Oaklandside, we're not immune to overdoing it on the doom and gloom. Yet so much to revel in happens here, too. Triumphs, progress, creation, and joy - thanks in large part to people in the city looking out for their neighbors, holding the powerful accountable, and building on their visions for what the city can be.

Tidball was born with a congenital disability, which affects all four limbs. She has foreshortened arms and legs, with one digit on each hand. When she was a child she missed three years of school because of the critical surgeries she needed. The disability campaigner was elected as Labour MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge in South Yorkshire last July, and says that while getting into politics is difficult, getting around the Houses of Parliament is hard when you have a disability.

You couldn't call it a microaggression, the patient's assumption that, being black, Hutchinson was unlikely to be an expert. But this anecdote barely registers on the Geiger counter of bigotry in healthcare that Hutchinson writes about trenchantly and acerbically, from the prejudices doctors face from patients and the gender and race blindspots in medical textbooks, to the racism that could endanger a patient's life (black women are four times more likely to die during childbirth).

If you plan to fill your 2025 calendar with a few trips to America's national parks, but you're simultaneously hoping to keep costs low, there are a few different ways to approach your travels. One of the most cost-effective strategies is to purchase the America the Beautiful National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass. The $80 pass covers all entrance and standard amenities fees for federal recreation sites (including national parks) for an entire year.