4 From Inaccessibility to Pathologized Mobility on New York City’s Public Transit

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Living with “Disproportionate Risk”
6. 1 “We Were Sick, and They Punished Us Even More” 43
7. 2 Second-Class Noncitizens 63
8. 3 Housing as Health Care 81
9. 4 From Inaccessibility to Pathologized Mobility on New York City’s Public Transit 100
10. 5 Vent 120
11. 6 High Stakes Schooling 151
12. 7 Care Work, Creativity, and Unplanned Survival in the Time of COVID 167
13. Part II Disability Communities
14. 8 When Postviral Goes Viral 189
15. 9 Blind New Yorkers, Online and Offline, during the Pandemic 214
16. 10 The Everyday Lives of Qilao during the Pandemic 228
17. 11 “We Want Cop-Free Communities” 251
18. 12 Mental Health and Black Futurity 271
19. 13 Disability Justice, Material Needs, and Mutual Aid 289
20. 14 Making Art in Bed 308
21. 15 Reflections on Being a Disability Reporter during the Pandemic 319
22. Coda 325
23. Appendix A 329
24. Appendix B 335
25. Acknowledgments 357
26. About the Contributors 363
27. Index 369