Learning more about Disability and Ableism
The
Harmful Ableist Language You Unknowingly Use
This article encourages readers to reconsider their use of common expressions
that use disability terminology in derogatory, negative ways. Using expressions
like “falling on deaf ears” or “turning a blind eye,” while subtle, can still
be damaging to people with disabilities and society as a whole.
I’m
not your inspiration, thank you very much.
This Tedx Talk by Stella Young sets out to help audiences understand disability
is not a bad thing and that disabled people are not exceptional simply for
living. Stella Young was a disabled writer, comedian, and advocate. She is
well-known for coining the term “inspiration porn,” which refers to the ways
that media and culture objectify people with disabilities by viewing their
existence and achievements as exceptional and inspirational.
I
got 99 problems…palsy is just one
In this Ted talk, comedian and actress Maysoon Zayid discusses her
intersectional identities and the need for inclusion, particularly in media
representation.
ADA
30 in Color
Hosted on the Disability Visibility Project website, ADA 30 in Color
(#ADA30InColor) is “a series of original essays on the past, present, and
future of disability rights and justice by disabled BIPOC (Black, Indigenous,
People of Color) writers.”
Fatphobia,
Ableism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article explores how “the rhetoric surrounding fatness, health, and
COVID-19 is strikingly similar to some of the ableist discourse about disabled
people and the coronavirus”
LSU Libraries
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Resources: Ability & Accessibility
Curated by the LSU African and African American Studies Diversity Librarian
Ebony McDonald, this website contains key terms and a reading list on Ability
& Accessibility. Subtopics include cognitive ability, physical ability,
policy & technology.
National
Center on Disability and Journalism Disability Language Style Guide
The National Center on Disability and Journalism has a
Disability Language Style Guide, which is available in English, Spanish, and
Romanian.
Bias-Free Language
The American Psychological Association’s website has a number of resources .”
These resources are designed to support people in respectful written and oral
communication about topics like age, disability, gender, participation in
research, racial and ethnic identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status,
and intersectionality.
Books
to Read While We’re All at Home: Disability Edition from Access Living
includes a list of book by authors with disabilities that can help others learn
more about the disability community.
Disability
Awareness Month 2020: Adult Recommended Reads
This staff created list from the Chicago Public Library was
created to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Americans with
Disabilities Act and Disability Awareness Month. Recommended books include
nonfiction featuring people with disabilities and fiction exploring disabled
characters.
Disability
Studies Reading List 2021
This list
compiled by Annie Heffernan provides books, articles, journals, blogs,
lectures, film, podcasts, reports, statements, syllabi or more to educate
others about Disability.
About Us: Disability Essays from the
Disability Series of the New York Times
“Boldly claiming a space where people with disabilities tell the stories of
their own lives—not other’s stories about them—About Us captures the voices of
a community that has for too long been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking
not only to people with disabilities and their support networks, but to all of
us, the authors in About Us offer intimate stories of how they navigate a world
not built for them. Echoing the refrain of the disability rights movement,
“nothing about us without us,” this collection, with a foreword by Andrew
Solomon, is a landmark publication of the disability movement for readers of
all backgrounds, communities, and abilities.” –W.W. Norton
Criptiques
edited by Caitlin Wood
“Criptiques is a groundbreaking collection of essays by disabled authors
examining the often overlooked, provocative sides of disability. Exploring
themes of gender, sexuality, disability/crip culture, identity, ableism and
much more, this important anthology provides much needed space for
thought-provoking discourse from a highly diverse group of writers. Criptiques
takes a cue from the disability rights slogan "Nothing About Us Without
Us," illuminating disability experiences from those with firsthand
knowledge. Criptiques is for people invested in crip culture, the ones just
discovering it, and those completely unfamiliar with the term.”
No Pity
In No Pity, journalist Joe
Shapiro documents “people with disabilities forging a new civil rights
movement.” Although the book is now over 25 years old, it provides a historical
look at disability history, policy, and culture in the United States leading up
to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. Readers will
learn how far we have come as a nation but will also understand how much
further we must go to fully realize the full inclusion of people with
disabilities in American society.
Disability
Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice
Wong
“Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the
forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of
life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with
these life experiences. It’s an eye-opening collection that readers will
revisit time and time again.” —Chicago Tribune
Disability
Visibility
This podcast
is “hosted by San Francisco night owl Alice Wong featuring
conversations on politics, culture, and media with disabled people. If you’re
interested in disability rights, social justice, and intersectionality, this
show is for you. It’s time to hear more disabled people in podcasting and radio”
The Accessible
Stall with Kyle and Emily
Hosts Kyle
Khachadurian and Emily Ladau talk about a variety of issues in the disability
community. Both hold different mobility levels and disabilities – therefore
offer two different perspectives in one space.