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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Elly Belle |Benjamin Sutton |Gareth Harris |Ben Luke
In early 2025, upon Donald Trump’s return to the White House, exhibitions at the Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC featuring Black and LGBTQ+ artists were suddenly canceled. The decisions seemed to be in response to an executive order Trump signed on his first day in office that restricts diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) “mandates, policies, programmes, preferences and activities”.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Elly Belle |Anni Irish |Benjamin Sutton
Amid plans to move forward with mass layoffs at the Brooklyn Museum, members of the institution’s two unions rallied outside the main entrance on Eastern Parkway on Tuesday (25 February) to protest the plan to terminate 47 employees by 10 March.
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May 28, 2024 | 
prismreports.org | Elly Belle
Disability rights groups and legal organizations have filed a class action lawsuit against the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) and the New York State Office of Mental Health for illegally subjecting disabled people to solitary confinement. Disability Rights Advocates, The Legal Aid Society, and the law firm Winston & Strawn LLP filed the motion on behalf of people with disabilities who are incarcerated in facilities across New York.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
prismreports.org | Elly Belle
Just a few months after budget cuts left New York City’s public libraries open only six days a week, Mayor Eric Adams has proposed $58 million in further cuts. The libraries have called for a reversal of Adams’ proposal, as the changes would leave them operational only Monday through Friday, with extremely scaled-back services and hours. Sunday service was cut at the end of 2023 as part of Adams’ citywide effort to reduce the budget by $24 million.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
prismreports.org | Elly Belle
Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) and the law firm Sheppard Mullin have filed a motion against the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) over their failure to follow through on an agreement to make at least 50% of cabs wheelchair accessible by 2020. The motion was filed on behalf of a coalition of people with disabilities, including the Taxis for All Campaign and Disabled In Action.
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Elly Belle
This story was originally published at Prism. To some disability advocates and disabled people themselves, it feels like disabled people have been abandoned to fend for themselves. And in places like Utah — where major legislation that would increase disabled people’s quality of life continues to be struck down — that’s palpable. During Utah’s legislative session in January, House Bill 205, the proposal to require Utah employers to pay disabled workers more, was struck down.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
prismreports.org | Elly Belle
To some disability advocates and disabled people themselves, it feels like disabled people have been abandoned to fend for themselves. And in places like Utah—where major legislation that would increase disabled people’s quality of life continues to be struck down—that’s palpable. During Utah’s legislative session in January, House Bill 205, the proposal to require Utah employers to pay disabled workers more, was struck down.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
teenvogue.com | Elly Belle
In this op-ed, writer Elly Belle explores the Kristen Stewart-led ghost show Living for the Dead and its themes of solidarity, collective power, and inner healing. If you weren’t a believer in the supernatural before, you might just be transformed in more ways than one by Living for the Dead, the queer ghost show that premiered in October. Ghostbusters meets Queer Eye, Living for the Dead sets out to befriend and then banish spirits disrupting public spaces in hopes of a mystical makeover.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
teenvogue.com | Elly Belle
In this essay, writer Elly Belle examines The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix and how it explores greed, justice, and how we clean up the wreckage of our wrongdoings. Some spoilers ahead. At first glance, Mike Flanagan’s modern retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher is all about seemingly mysterious deaths. If you look more closely, however, as if at a haunted I Spy picture riddle, there’s something much more ordinary than mystifying going on.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
yahoo.com | Elly Belle
In this essay, writer Elly Belle examines The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix and how it explores greed, justice, and how we clean up the wreckage of our wrongdoings. Some spoilers ahead. At first glance, Mike Flanagan’s modern retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher is all about seemingly mysterious deaths. If you look more closely, however, as if at a haunted I Spy picture riddle, there’s something much more ordinary than mystifying going on.
