Bernie Sanders

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has recently come under fire for the vicious attacks carried out by some of his supporters on social media. At the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas on Wednesday, February 19, Sanders’ opponents, from Elizabeth Warren to Pete Buttigieg, decried the vociferousness of the bullying by a contingent of the [...]

Judging by commentary on Twitter, a segment of the disability community is outraged by Bernie Sanders’ embrace of Marianne Williamson, who recently appeared with him in Austin, Texas, after she endorsed him for the presidency. As Kendall Brown of Bitch Media rightly points out, the self-help guru subscribes to a certain “individualistic spiritual ideology that [...]

“It’s time for us to acknowledge that disability rights are civil rights,” proclaimed Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in his newly-released disability rights proposal. “A society that does not center the voices and needs of people with disabilities has yet to fulfill its most basic obligations.” In his much-awaited plan, entitled Fighting for Disability Rights, Sanders [...]

It seems like presidential candidates in the United States only talk about mental health in America when they’re talking about gun control. Well, when is somebody going to ask, “What are you going to do about the problem facing America in regards to the mental health system?” Our mental health facilities are overcrowded. People are [...]

I recently saw the following meme on Facebook, shared by individuals who I truly respect and find to be supportive: But the message I received from it is anything but. As an individual who suffers from several mental illnesses, I felt not only unsupported, but hurt by these individuals who spread it so lightly, laughing [...]

This weekend was one that saw both Bernie Sanders’ off-color joke during the Democratic debate and the shooting of a pastor in Idaho by a marine suffering from an undisclosed mental illness. Both of these isolated incidents once again reveal a much larger general truth – most folks aren’t even close to knowing what they need to know in [...]