 Disabled people who are also racial minorities generally have less access to support and are more vulnerable to violent discrimination.For example, in the United States people of color who are mentally ill are more frequently victims of police brutality than their white counterparts.Camille A. Nelson, writing for the "Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law", notes that for “people who are negatively racialized, that is people who are perceived as being non-white, and for whom mental illness is either known or assumed, interaction with police is precarious and potentially dangerous.”

The marginalization of disabled people can leave persons with disabilities unable to actualize what society expects of gendered existence.