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Eva Kittay is a philosopher and author of Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (Routledge) and Learning from My Daughter.

Legal challenge from Disability Rights Texas may have repercussions in schools across the country

Eva Kittay, PhD
Policy
January 16, 2022

Parents of disabled children together with Disability Rights Texas won a ruling in November that could have ramifications well beyond the state of Texas. In July, Texas Governor Abbot issued an executive order, GA-38, that prohibited schools from instituting a mask mandate. He insisted that whether a child should be compelled to wear a mask should be up to a child’s parents.

Judge Lee Yeakel declared that the Governor’s order Read more…

Legal challenge from Disability Rights Texas may have repercussions in schools across the country

Care is no longer personal. Care is political.

Eva Kittay, PhD
Policy
September 17, 2020

Care.

I do not believe we have ever heard more about care at a presidential nominating convention than in this year’s Democrat convention. “Patriotism,” “justice,” “bravery,” “strength”?  For sure.  But “care”? Scarcely a word. Yet we now hear that the role of the president is to “care about and for the people” he governs.

Socrates spoke of the task of a ruler to care for his subjects as the shepherd who cares …

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Care is no longer personal. Care is political.

Persons with intellectual disabilities forgotten in the COVID-19 pandemic

Eva Kittay, PhD
Conditions
April 20, 2020

I am hiding out in our lovely spacious house in the woods with my husband, hoping that COVID-19 will not find us. Both of us are in the “at-risk” category as we are both in our 70s.  We are both New Yorkers, but we are upstate because our 50-year-old daughter lives in a community here.

Our daughter has a rare genetic condition that has severely limited her …

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