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This post was originally published on this siteThis post summarizes published criminal law and related cases released by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals during April 2025. Cases of potential interest to state practitioners are summarized monthly. Previous summaries of Fourth Circuit cases are available here. No error to allow co-defendant to invoke privilege against […]

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I’m a writer, photographer, and activist passionate about disability rights.

I hold a Master’s degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley, where I taught freshman composition and sophomore literature as a graduate student instructor for three years. After graduate school, I began a fifteen-year career as a technical writer in the networking and telecommunications fields for such companies as Novell and Lucent Technologies. I’m currently pursuing my second Master’s degree, this time in History and Culture, at Union Institute and University. My field of concentration is Disability Studies.

On this site, I’ll share my reflections on my reading, analyze representations of disability in textual and visual media, and look at ideas for creating counter-representations that interrupt mainstream narratives.

I welcome your comments and insights. Thank you for joining the conversation.

Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg

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Twenty-two autistic adults, including Gavin Bollard, Nicole Nicholson, Jean Kearns Miller, and Laura Nagle, talk about such issues as growing up without a diagnosis and coming to understand themselves in adulthood through the lens of autism.

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