Hey, hey, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.

I'm Brittany Luce.

It's Election Day, and across the country, millions of Americans will be waiting in line

to cast their vote for offices at the local, state, and federal level.

And across NPR, you'll find coverage of those races and how the results will impact everything

from the Congress to reproductive rights.

And here, I want to focus on those lines people are waiting in.

We hear a lot about how those lines impact voting access for black and brown folks, but

my guest today, Sammy Shock, sees and feels something more.

The continued destruction of voting rights and making voting harder and harder is an

access issue.

I think we see a lot of conversations around cutting down on voting access as a racial and

class justice issue, which absolutely is.

But it is also impacting the ability of disabled folks to be able to vote.

Sammy is the author of a new book, Black Disability Politics.

It's about the intersection of black and disabled liberation and how to center disability

politics in racial justice.

A lot of times when we think of disability, we think of this as a personal medical issue

that you should take care of when your family should be concerned about, but it doesn't

really.

It's not like a community type of thing.

And disability studies has really pushed back on that to say, no, our experiences of

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