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Kathleen Downes

Kathleen Downes
Young smiling manager with cup of tea looking at you while sitting by office window
Local

Awkward! Woman with CP Actually Does Know Your Boyfriend’s Neighbor’s Cousin Who Uses a Wheelchair

by Kathleen DownesMay 16, 2025May 16, 2025
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a doctor rolls his eyes at a woman in a hospital bed
Local

Woman Disappoints Hospital PR When She Fails to Bungee Jump Three Days After Spine Surgery

by Kathleen DownesNovember 15, 2024November 15, 2024
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Holiday

Pennywise to Terrorize Children with Latex Free Balloons this Halloween Following Anti-Ableist Training

by Kathleen DownesOctober 31, 2024October 31, 2024
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a man with a medicaid badge shrugs in a cemetery
Holiday

Zombie Wheelchair User Denied Care Assistant to Help Her Roll Over in Her Grave

by Kathleen DownesDecember 4, 2023April 19, 2024
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a sad boy using a wheelchair holds a toothbrush, in front of a candy corn background
Holiday

Wheelchair User Cries Ableism After Neighborhood’s Only Accessible Trick-or-Treat Stop Hands Out Toothbrushes

by Kathleen DownesNovember 2, 2023April 15, 2024
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Wheelchair Ken smiles in Barbieland
Culture

This Ken’s Job Is Just ‘Wheelchair’

by Kathleen DownesAugust 7, 2023August 21, 2023
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a stick figure family decal with a giant foot who has a little angry face
Local

Inclusive Stick Figure Family Features Woman’s Immortal Pressure Sore

by Kathleen DownesJune 26, 2023April 19, 2024
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A woman plants face down into a big red couch
Local

Woman Told She Would Spend the Rest of Her Life in a Wheelchair Actually Spends a Lot of Time on the Couch

by Kathleen DownesNovember 28, 2022April 19, 2024
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a McDonalds Happy Meal box surrounded by various McDonald's themed medical supplies, including a scary Ronald McDonald BiPAP
Culture

McDonald’s Launches Disabled Adult Happy Meal™ Featuring Wildly Popular McCatheter Toy

by Kathleen DownesNovember 15, 2022April 19, 2024
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a paper tacked to the wall shows a chart titled "Bowel Movement Chart" with names and symbols
Local

Disabled Teen Makes Small Fortune Forging BM Chart at Local Crip Camp

by Kathleen DownesSeptember 8, 2022April 19, 2024
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a close-up face of the Elf on the Shelf toy
Holiday

Elf on the Shelf Accepts New Job Surveilling SSI Recipients

by Kathleen DownesDecember 21, 2021April 22, 2024
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a turkey wearing sneakers crosses a finish line as spectators cheer
Holiday

Left Out of Turkey Trot, Disabled Turkeys Compete in Inaugural Turkey Stagger

by Kathleen DownesNovember 25, 2021April 19, 2024
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POLITICS

  • Disappointed Nation Beginning to Think RFK Hasn’t Actually Found the Cause of Autism
    November 15, 2025
  • Opinion: Xanax Should Be Free Under Fascism
    October 22, 2025
  • Who Said It: A Disability Charity or a Eugenicist?
    October 21, 2025

CULTURE

  • Sleeping Beauty Actually ME/CFS Girly Waiting for Doctor, Not Unlicensed Prince
    November 30, 2025
  • Marvel Director Reveals Invisible Disabled Superhero Was in Movie the Whole Time
    August 27, 2025
  • Disabled Baseball Fan Enjoys Accessibility of Empty Stadium for Shitty Team
    August 25, 2025

LOCAL

  • Speech Pathologist Delivers Utterly Unpronounceable Diagnosis 
    December 18, 2025
  • Social Security Administration Introduces a Form to Request an Accessible Version of the Form to Request Accessible Forms
    December 17, 2025
  • Disabled Woman Not Sure if Guy Is Staring Because of Wheelchair or Because She’s Hot
    December 15, 2025

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