Disability

See also the recent Fall 2015 Disability Justice Study Group.

Pittsburgh:

• The Next Page: A caregiver’s dilemma – In the deaths of Richard Liposchok and his son, Mickey, Tina Calabro sees lessons to learn in how society views the disabled

Articles/Blogs:

• Bitch Magazine/ Disability
• Call for Submissions: TFW Forum on Disabilities, Ableism, and Disability Studies (note: this was edited b/c of a lot of criticism around the inaccessibility of the original call for submissions)
• Dear World: How I Got My Brain Injury Is None of Your Business
• FRIDA: Feminist Response In Disability Activism
• Intoxication Culture is a Bore
• I Won’t Pretend That Disability Simulation Works
• Leaving Evidence
• Not Dead Yet: The Resistance
• Ranking Names Best Cities For People With Disabilities
• Tales From The Crip: This Is What Disability Looks Like

Resources for Accessibility/ Disability Justice:

• Crip Solidarity
• Communities of Care Organizations of Liberation
• Disabled and Proud- Conference Materials
• How They Hurt Us: Violence in The AcademyIncite! Video Captioning 101
• Resisting Isolation Building Home by John St. Louis
• Spoons

On-Going Campaigns:

• #stopableism2015 – on twitter

Projects:

• Criptiques
• The Icarus Project
• The Radical Access Mapping Project
• Sins Invalid is a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Our performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body.

Other Kinds of Media- Audio, Visual:

• Dis/Representation: Evolving Disability Conversations: Media Archive includes years of reading lists – fiction, non-fiction, essay’s etc.
• My Country: PBS Documentary
• Perspectives on Disablilty – youtube video 10 week – class
• Racism, Ableism, and Police Brutality Leading to Brain Injury
• Who Am I to Stop It: Conductor James DePreist and “My Country” ADA documentary
• Shit people say to sick and disabled queers – Video Blog

Intersections:

• 26 Ways to be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
• A Call for Solidarity with the Community of Ferguson, MissouriAccess Intimacy by Mia Mingus
• Addressing the Criminalization of Disability from a Disability Justice Framework: Centering The Experiences of Disabled Queer Trans Indigenous and People of Colour
• Americans With Disabilities Are More Likely To Be Poor, Report Finds
• Angry About The White Lesbians Suing For Having A Black Child? You’re Missing Something
• Caring for Ourselves as Political Warfare
• Changing the Framework by Mia Mingus
• Cripping Capitalism
• Dis/Representation: Reading Into Disability
• Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
• Gaza: Why Care, Why Act
• If I Can’t Dance is it My Revolution by A.J. Withers
• Mental Health Advocates Seek Relief for Autistic Va. Inmate
• People with disabilities half of people killed by cops; disability rights groups protest
• Queer Mental Health
• SINS INVALID STATEMENT ON POLICE VIOLENCE

Disability and Race:

• Reflecting on Frida Kahlo’s Birthday and The Importance of Recognizing Ourselves for (in) Each Other
• I, too, am Racialized
• We Exist In Darkness (Living at the Intersections)
• When Disability and Race Intersect