57: Disability, COVID-19, and Guns
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Victoria M Rodríguez-Roldán, the Trans/Gender Non-Conforming Justice Project Director at the National LGBTQ Task Force, joins host JJ to talk about the intersections between gun violence, disability, and COVID-19, and how — contrary what the NRA says — the solution to structural inequality is not "buy more guns."
Mentioned in this podcast:
- 4 Reasons Not to Buy Guns in Response to COVID-19 (Center for American Progress)
- Gun-toting disabled woman with health condition appears in NRA video warning of effort to 'exploit' coronavirus pandemic (Washington Post)
- COVID-19 Pandemic and People with Disabilities (Respectability)
- Disability considerations during the COVID-19 Outbreak (World Health Organization)
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