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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 .

4 min readDec 12, 2023

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

Credit: AffectTheVerb

3 min readFeb 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…

3 min readSep 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…

3 min readApr 8, 2022

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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…

5 min readJan 18, 2024

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

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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…

3 min readMar 7, 2023

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

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Disabled Elders Pave the Road We Use t

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

3 min readMar 5, 2023

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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…

5 min readMay 17, 2022

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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.

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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…

2 min readJan 27, 2022

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

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COVID gives Business a Mulligan on the ADA

The unspoken legacy of COVID, could be a change in disability inclusion .

4 min readAug 13, 2021

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COVID gives Business a Mulligan on the ADA

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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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