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COVID provided a do over for employers on the ADA, will they realize it?

The unspoken legacy of COVID, could be a change .

Dec 12, 2023

A Black Woman with strawberry blonde hair in sitting at a board room table signs to a South Asian woman with black hair wearing orange

Dec 12, 2023

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The Disability Penalty or Why Your “Specialization” Is a Liability?

Credit: AffectTheVerb

Feb 7, 2022

A disabled Asian genderfluid person types on a laptop while wearing compression gloves. The hands and keyboard are the focal point. https://affecttheverb.com/gallery/disabledandhere/arthritistyping/

Feb 7, 2022

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Remarks on the Acceptance of the Judith Heumann Champion of Justice Award at Disability Rights…

To say I am honored to be the recipient of the Judy Heumann Champion of Justice award is an understatement. Thank you to Megan and all the…

Sep 29, 2023

A white redheaded dwarf woman in a black dress standing next to a tall African-American man wearing a blue suit.

Sep 29, 2023

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Accessible. I do not think it means, what you think it means.

As an advocate who travels in a lot of spaces, I always have to remind myself that what non-disableds mean by “accessible” and what #DisCo…

Apr 8, 2022

Accessible. I do not think it means, what you think it means.

Apr 8, 2022

How My Mother Taught me the Magic of Loving My Reflection

Originally published in 2016 on “The Body is Not An Apology”

Aug 26

How My Mother Taught me the Magic of Loving My Reflection

Aug 26

Redheads Shouldn’t Wear Red (and other lies I was told) or Why I’m Still Mourning André Leon Talley

(Note: This piece was originally written over a year ago. But it became too hard to publish. This last summer a number of Mr. Talley’s…

Jan 18

Redheads Shouldn’t Wear Red (and other lies I was told) or Why I’m Still Mourning André Leon Talley

Jan 18

The Best Thing You Can Do With A Pedestal is to Take a Sledgehammer to it.

My favorite, Justin Dart quote, was “ learn to love the humanity in people, even the ones you hate.” ( and that is such a story for another…

Mar 7, 2023

The Best Thing You Can Do With A Pedestal is to Take a Sledgehammer to it.

Mar 7, 2023

Disabled Elders Pave the Road We Use t

The official statement is here. But I am Irish and we don’t do things, “officially.”

Mar 5, 2023

Two women next to each other. One is a little person with shoulder length red hair and is wearing a purple sleeveless dress. The other has short brown hair and glasses is wearing a purple jacket and is seated in a wheelchair. Both are smiling.

Mar 5, 2023

Remarks by Rebecca Cokley at the NY Women’s Foundation Celebrating Women Breakfast

Hi, my name is Rebecca Cokley. I am a redheaded woman, with a glorious abundance of freckles, wearing a black jumpsuit, and a pair of shoes…

May 17, 2022

Three women standing against a blue and white backdrop reading “NY Women’s Foundation. One is an African and Indigenous ancestry with curly shoulder length hair and a dress that has sheer black sleeves and a blue flowered pattern. Next to her is an Korean American woman in a grey suit with a grey tie and a white shirt. Next to her is a white, achondroplastic dwarf woman with red hair and freckles wearing a Black sleeveless jumpsuit.

May 17, 2022

HEIGH-NO! Seven Little People We Need Films About vs. Another Damn Snow White Movie

Peter Dinklage’s passionate admonishment of Disney’s “Snow White” reboot caused the Mouse to publicly commit to a “different approach” to…

Jan 27, 2022

HEIGH-NO! Seven Little People We Need Films About vs. Another Damn Snow White Movie

Jan 27, 2022

Rebecca Cokley

Rebecca Cokley

Rebecca Cokley is a philantropic buffalo, 3 x Obama Appointee, writer, pundit, & activist who doesn’t believe anyone should wait over 30 yrs for civil rights.

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