Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Apr 19, 2024 | audible.com | Susie Dumond |Helen Hoang |Talia Hibbert |Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

April welcomes Neurodiversity and Autism Acceptance Month—the perfect time to recognize and amplify the rich, diverse lived experiences of autistic folks. In recent years, we've seen the rise of the #ActuallyAutistic movement, a push to prioritize autistic voices in discussions of neurodivergence and center fictional narratives of autistic characters written by autistic creators.

Nov 15, 2023 | eater.com | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Listen to this article“Oh, you want to know how you can support disability justice? MAKE SOMEONE A POT OF SOUP!” my friend William Maria Rain, a true disability justice OG, yelled at the audience at a disability justice panel at the D Center at the University of Washington, circa 2014 or so.

Sep 27, 2023 | truthout.org | Eleanor Bader |Meghan Krausch |Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |Julia Conley

This story was originally published by ProPublica. This story was co-published with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The first complaints landed at the offices of Philips Respironics in 2010, soon after the company made a fateful decision to redesign its best selling breathing machines used in homes and hospitals around the world.