A Disability Day of Mourning: Remembering the Murdered and the Vulnerable
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March 1, 2021

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abuse | disability day of mourning | murder | sara luterman | the nation

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On March 1 every year, communities gather to read aloud the names of disabled people killed by their caregivers.

When stories are reported in a way that normalizes, exonerates, or even exalts caregivers who murder disabled people, Gross said, they may encourage copycat crimes. Unlike stories about suicide and school shootings, there has not yet been research on impact or best practices, but it’s a reasonable fear. “When journalists call murderers ‘loving and devoted parents’…the result is an environment in which these murders are seen as acceptable,” Gross wrote in her 2012 essay “Killing Words.”

Read more in The Nation.

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