Tag: Ableism

• ‘DisCrit Expanded’- Annamma, Subini Ancy. Ferri, Beth A. Connor, David J.

  This sequel to the influential 2016 work DisCrit—Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education explores how DisCrit has both deepened and expanded, providing increasingly nuanced understandings about how racism and ableism circulate across geographic borders, academic disciplines, multiplicative identities, intersecting oppressions, and individual and cultural resistances. Following an incisive foreword by DisCrit intellectual forerunner…

  The Disability Archives

  30th Mar 2024

  A, Academic, Age, Anthology, Author, Book Type, C, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, F, Genre, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction

  Ableism, Academic, Anthology, Disability Culture and Equity Series, Disability Studies, Education, Essay Anthology, Essays, Intersectionality, Multiple Contributors, POC, Race, Series, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘DisCrit’- Connor, David J. Ferri, Beth A. Annamma, Subini Ancy

  This groundbreaking volume brings together major figures in Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore some of today’s most important issues in education. Scholars examine the achievement/opportunity gaps from both historical and contemporary perspectives, as well as the overrepresentation of minority students in special education and the school-to-prison pipeline. Chapters…

  The Disability Archives

  30th Mar 2024

  A, Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, C, Disability, Disability Studies, F, Genre, Misc, Non-Fiction

  Ableism, Academic, Disability Culture and Equity Series, Disability in Education, Disability Studies, Education, Intersectionality, Non-Fiction, Race, Series, Submitted Book

• ‘The War on Disabled People’- Clifford, Ellen

  In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for “grave and systematic violations” of disabled people’s rights. Since then, driven by the Tory government’s obsessive drive to slash public spending whilst scapegoating the most disadvantaged in society, the situation for disabled people in Britain has continued to deteriorate. Punitive welfare regimes, the…

  The Disability Archives

  7th Dec 2023

  Academic, Adult, Age, Author, Book Type, C, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction

  Ableism, Academic, Activism, Capitalism, Disability Politics, England, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, UK, UK Politics

• ‘My Body and Other Crumbling Empires’- Medford, Lyndsey

  We are living in a world that is sick. Both literally sick, with 60 percent of adults in the US living with a chronic illness and rising rates of autoimmune diseases in particular, including long COVID, and figuratively sick, facing ever increasing rates of burnout, anxiety, and disconnection. As a writer, activist, and theology student,…

  The Disability Archives

  27th Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Behcet’s Syndrome, Book Type, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Genre, M, Memoir, Misc, Non-Fiction

  Ableism, Accessibility, Behcet’s Disease, Chronic Illness, Healthcare, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Religion, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience, USA

• ‘Demystifying Disability’- Ladau, Emily

  An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more accessible, inclusive place. Disabled people are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But…

  The Disability Archives

  1st Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Guidebook, L, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Self-Help, Sociology

  Ableism, Disability Studies, Guidebook, Non-Fiction, Self-Help, Social Issues, Sociology, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘Being Seen’- Sjunneson, Elsa

  A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else. As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of…

  The Disability Archives

  10th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Autobiography, Blind, Book Type, Creative Non-Fiction, Deaf, Deafblind, Disability, Genre, Hearing and Visual Disability, Hearing Disability, LGBTQ+, Memoir, Misc, Non-Fiction, Queer, S, Visual Disability

  Ableism, Activism, Deafblind, Disability Activism, Disability History, Disability Representation, Hearing and Visual Disability, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education’- Dolmage, Jay Timothy

  Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of…

  The Disability Archives

  8th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, D, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Sociology

  Ableism, Academia, Academic, Accessibility, Architecture, Disability in Education, Disability Studies, Education, Eugenics, Higher Education, History, Inaccessibility, Inclusivity, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Issues, Sociology, Submitted Book