The disability community has a homelessness problem, the Freedom Church of the Poor at the LCC this Sunday, and watch last week's recording of framing disability the LCC way: www.loiscurtis.org/so/c5PXHMxHM...

*SPOILER ALERT: MCO DISABILITY ADVISORY COMMITTEES WILL NOT SAVE YOU* (Part 2) As Medicaid gets chopped and screwed, folks aren't talking enough about who's going to be doing the "screwing": MCOs and other profiteering contractors who states contract out the administration of Medicaid to.

As Medicaid gets chopped and screwed, folks aren't talking enough about who's going to be doing the "screwing": MCOs and other profiteering contractors who states contract out the administration of Medicaid to. Part One of our unpacking of this issue (link to Part Two in the description):

This is the opening plenary from the NCIL 2021 Annual conference, as given by then-NCIL ED, @reymamccoyhyten.bsky.social. In it, she clearly articulates the systemic gaps that both #IndependentLiving and #BigDisCo grapple with and offers solutions: Plenary begins at 11:07.

The ADA Didn't Save Lois... and #FreeOurPeople Didn't, Either. Read this week's blog here: www.loiscurtis.org/post/the-ada...

The ADA Didn't Save Lois, framing disability the LCC way (this Wednesday!), and a throwback from #ADA2021 from the Washington Post featuring our co-founder, @reymamccoyhyten.bsky.social :

Four years ago, a DEI consultant and her cohort blackmailed the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) for $30,000, payable to her. Tomorrow, she'll give the opening plenary at #NCIL2025. We discuss:

Framing Disability the LCC Way, take a virtual tour of our resource room, and navigating community abuse: this week from the Lois Curtis Center-

Is Easterseals about to help create the newest stop on the preschool to prison pipeline? We ponder further about the "Helping Communities with Better Support (HCBS) Act", which was signed into law underneath the umbrella of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" on 7/4: www.youtube.com/live/SwMsoZQ...

Read- and share!- this week's blog, "The HCBS provision #BigDisCo isn’t talking about, or, did the federal government just create a funding stream for the newest stop on the preschool to prison pipeline while nobody was looking?": www.loiscurtis.org/post/the-hcb...

Funding for a new stop on the preschool to prison pipeline? RFK Jr said WHAT about Bird flu? People actually have fun at the LCC? It all in this week's newsletter: loiscurtis.org/so/74PVbjXdD...

Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask died in an institutional setting on July 3rd, 2021. We discuss her life, as well as the circumstances around her institutionalization, during this livestream: www.youtube.com/live/MLe3G9k...

CALLING BLACK NONPROFIT LEADERS- the Giving Gap wants to hear from you about challenges you/your organization are experiencing. Consider filling out this Google form and sharing with your colleagues:

As someone who was tossed and turned through many of the same systems Lois Curtis navigated through her life, Alyze Chicago recognizes how art and a place of support for expression through art can offer a way to survive and a pathway to thrive:

Meet our new artist in residence, our ASL interpreter kicks off a new series, and the latest letdowns from the Supreme Court: this week from the Lois Curtis Center- loiscurtis.org/so/31PV13KKo...

Check out this week's blog, "White Supremacy on Wheels": www.loiscurtis.org/post/white-s...

Did u know that we're named after the person whose efforts led to the Olmstead Decision, which affirmed that disabled people have the right to live in the community? In honor of the 26 anniversary of that historic Supreme Court ruling, we want to send u a copy of our comic book about Ms. Curtis:

FREE! The Strategy and Solidarity 2025 Global Summit is generously allowing folks to drop in on a session for FREE and we'd love for you to join ours, "White Supremacy on Wheels", on Wednesday, June 25th at 1pm Pacific!

Juneteenth, nationwide listening tour for Native Hawaiians, and the LCC at the Strategy & Solidarity 2025 Global Summit: this week from the Lois Curtis Center- loiscurtis.org/so/f0PTutBjR...

"Join the co-founders of a pioneering organization as they shed light on the often-overlooked manifestations of white supremacy and inspire us to work together towards a brighter, more inclusive tomorrow." Register at: strategyandsolidarity.com #strategyandsolidarity #disabilityjustice

Why we do what we do, our new inclusive immigration information hub, and Juneteenth fun: this week from the LCC: loiscurtis.org/so/43PTL3bsI...

Who's joining us at the Strategy & Solidarity 2025 Global Summit?

#BIGDISCO 's "inclusive" disaster strategy, unpacked: youtube.com/live/OwJ3qA8...

LCC's own Ami Hyten recently brought our mission and story to FOX 43 AM Live- catch that interview here: www.ksnt.com/video/fox-43...

It takes a village to uphold and maintain the oppressive system. Read this week's blog from the LCC, "There Will Never Be Another George Floyd", here: www.loiscurtis.org/post/there-w...

There Will Never Be Another George Floyd- this week from the Lois Curtis Center:

Why wasn't George Floyd's murder enough for you? It's a simple question. And we discuss it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N4K...

Beauty (lots of art stuff in the works for us), and the beast of systemic racism: this week from the LCC-

HCBS is an immigration issue. Download "Self Direction and Immigration Enforcement Guide" here: www.loiscurtis.org/resources/48...

What's disability got to do with immigration, guidance for those whose homes are a workplace, and "tour" our newly remodeled fully-accessible shower: wix.to/a2DcBpb

Visit our newly renovated, fully accessible shower room! Or come by and see it for yourself if you're in/near Topeka, KS. youtube.com/shorts/jsnEO...

This week's blog has got a bunch of hit dogs hollerin' in the #BigDisCo: www.loiscurtis.org/post/bigdisc...

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The LCC Anyway 5k, more on #BigDisCo 's trans excluding fight to protect 504, and is your "inclusive" space making you SICK? Check out this week's newsletter for more: www.loiscurtis.org/so/d4PQbHAWC...

CW: White Tearjerker Alert We focus on the status update on TX vs Kennedy (formerly TX vs Becerra) that was recently released by DREDF and other #BigDisCo orgs, as well as breach the subject of the ineffectual letter writing campaign approach to systems advocacy that #BigDisCo persists in employing

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This week from the LCC:

From George Floyd to John Scott, or, The LCC Continues To Scream Into The Void: youtube.com/live/Wc4XfVy...

Another Black man with a disability has been murdered by police. apnews.com/article/alab...

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

Expect #BigDisCo to simultaneously return to advocating for accessibility via avenues outside of DEIA AND affirm to not engage in DEI activities... They can’t jeopardize their funding, after all. More here: www.loiscurtis.org/post/dei-but...

DEI(but carve out the A) is Dead, Autism, and Family Fun Nights at the LCC:

According to this leaked memo, HHS grantees that engage in DEI *AND* DEIA activities will be defunded of federal funding. Effective immediately. What say ye, #BigDisCo ? Y'all spent the Biden years fighting to get that "A" tacked when DEI was lucrative, so...

Link to the OMB document is included in the description. Alternately, you can find the pdf in our resources- "HHS Budget Cut Proposal 2026".

Worst Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month EVER:

Throwback Thursday post: if you're interested in the intersection of autism and systemic racism, then this conversation is for you. It features LCC co-founder @reymamccoyhyten.bsky.social and @lamarhardwick.bsky.social tackling social service and faith spaces.

RIP Victor Perez. Our latest blog on the public health crisis everyone "forgot" about: www.loiscurtis.org/post/from-ge...

It's Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month. And Victor Perez, a seventeen-year-old Latine autistic boy from Idaho, is dead as the result of police violence. Click for more:

Black and Brown disabled people, as well as white people with significant intellectual/psychiatric disabilities, have been hidden away in congregate settings in contrast to white "it's my body that's disabled, not my mind" disabled people all along... More here: www.loiscurtis.org/post/free-ou...

"Free OUR People (But Not THEM)": Need we say more? Of course- click below on what we at the LCC call "institutionalized bias", as well as Medicare Part D Open Enrollment, and Easter fun for kids!