Hurricane Katrina, Twenty Years Later

Friday, August 29, 2025, marks the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, a weather event that rapidly became a significant social and political catastrophe killing close to two thousand people, most of whom were poor and Black, and displacing and rendering homeless thousands more, forecasting the spectre of human-made disaster precipitated […]

Dorian, Disaster Relief, and Disabled People

In her excellent and provocative post the other day, Melinda drew attention to a number of the political, social, and economic implications of and issues that surround “natural” disasters, including the ways that these disasters tie into climate change and the warming of the planet. Melinda and her family have now evacuated. The last word […]