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Alice Moira (81) and Lochlann O’Higgins (25) describe how exclusionary design and policy still block wheelchair users—step-free gaps, scarce accessible housing, and hostile benefits systems—alongside the community and freedom they claim through sport and swimming.
You just feel so light!: two wheelchair users – one 81, one 25 – on welfare cuts, housing and the joy of swimming
Across generations, the through-line is structural: wheelchair users are still navigating spaces designed without wheelchair users in mind. Alice Moira’s childhood chair was wooden and unpushable, and later wooden push-rims left her hands full of splinters; Lochlann O’Higgins still reaches stations with no lift despite modern trip-planning tools. This isn’t about “resilience”—it’s about rights: fix the infrastructure so people aren’t stranded or hurt by designs that exclude People with Disabilities. Housing multiplies the harm. Moira recalls tenants with disabilities effectively trapped in…
Abandoned wheelchairs outside the Two Palms Nursing Center in Altadena, California. Photo: Gina Ferazzi, Los Angeles Times, Getty Images.
Your Local Community Isn’t Ready to Evacuate People with Disabilities
When wildfires hit Los Angeles in January 2025, People with Disabilities died waiting for someone to get them out. Julia Métraux reports that local governments have left gaps in evacuation planning, and that neighbors who ask People with Disabilities about their plans can fill them.