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Definition<\/strong> \u2013 Discrimination or prejudice against individuals with disabilities<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Recommended Books<\/h1>\n

Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author:<\/strong> Nancy Mairs
\nPublished:<\/strong> December 22, 1997
\nISBN:<\/strong>\u00a0807070874
\nISBN13:<\/strong>\u00a09780807070871
\nPages:<\/strong> 224<\/p>\n

“In a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit.”\u00a0\u2013 Beacon Press<\/a>
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The Rejected Body \u2013 Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author:<\/strong>\u00a0Susan Wendell
\nPublished<\/strong>:\u00a0July 4, 1996
\nISBN:<\/strong> 415910471
\nISBN13:<\/strong> 9780415910477
\nPages:<\/strong> 214<\/p>\n

“The Rejected Body<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine. Among the topics it addresses are who should be identified as disabled; whether disability is biomedical, social or both; what causes disability and what could ‘cure’ it; and whether scientific efforts to eliminate disabling physical conditions are morally justified.<\/p>\n

Wendell provides a remarkable look at how cultural attitudes towards the body contribute to the stigma of disability and to widespread unwillingness to accept and provide for the body’s inevitable weakness.”\u00a0\u2013 Routledge Taylor & Francis Group<\/a><\/p>\n

Authoring Autism:\u00a0 On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author<\/strong>: Melanie Yergeau
\nPublished<\/strong>: January 15, 2018
\nISBN<\/strong>:\u00a0822370204
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09780822370208
\nPages<\/strong>: 312<\/p>\n

“In\u00a0Authoring Autism<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0Melanie Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity\u2014neuroqueerness\u2014rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies scholarship and its reification of the neurological passivity of autistics. She also critiques early intensive behavioral interventions\u2014which have much in common with gay conversion therapy\u2014and questions the ableist privileging of intentionality and diplomacy in rhetorical traditions. Using storying as her method, she presents an alternative view of autistic rhetoricity by foregrounding the cunning rhetorical abilities of autistics and by framing autism as a narrative condition wherein autistics are the best-equipped people to define their experience. Contending that autism represents a queer way of being that simultaneously embraces and rejects the rhetorical, Yergeau shows how autistic people queer the lines of rhetoric, humanity, and agency. In so doing, she demonstrates how an autistic rhetoric requires the reconceptualization of rhetoric\u2019s very essence.”\u00a0\u2013 Duke University Press<\/a><\/p>\n

The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Authors:<\/strong> Doris Fleischer, Freida Zames
\nPublished:<\/strong> June 3, 2011
\nISBN:<\/strong>\u00a01439907447
\nISBN13:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a09781439907443
\nPages:<\/strong> 360<\/p>\n

“In this updated edition, Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames expand their encyclopedic history of the struggle for disability rights in the United States, to include the past ten years of disability rights activism.The book includes a new chapter on the evolving impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the continuing struggle for cross-disability civil and human rights, and the changing perceptions of disability.<\/p>\n

The authors provide a probing analysis of such topics as deinstitutionalization, housing, health care, assisted suicide, employment, education, new technologies, disabled veterans, and disability culture.<\/p>\n

Based on interviews with over one hundred activists,&#160;The Disability Rights Movement<\/i>&#160;tells a complex and compelling story of an ongoing movement that seeks to create an equitable and diverse society, inclusive of people with disabilities.”\u2013 Project Muse<\/a><\/p>\n

Exile and Pride:\u00a0 Disability, Queerness, and Liberation<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Authors:<\/strong> Eli Clare, Dean Spade (Afterword), Aurora Levins Morales (Foreword)
\nPublished:<\/strong> August 7, 2015
\nISBN:<\/strong>\u00a0822360314
\nISBN13:<\/strong>\u00a09780822360315
\nPages:<\/strong> 216<\/p>\n

“First published in 1999, the groundbreaking\u00a0Exile and Pride<\/i>\u00a0is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare’s revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist\/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet’s devotion to truth and an activist’s demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home: home as place, community, bodies, identity, and activism. Here readers will find an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root of Clare’s exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism, sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic, is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to everyone. With heart and hammer,\u00a0Exile and Pride<\/i>\u00a0pries open a window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their complexity, can be realized, loved, and embraced.”\u00a0\u2013 Duke University Press<\/a><\/p>\n

A Disability History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author:<\/strong> Kim E. Nielsen
\nPublished:<\/strong> October 1, 2013
\nISBN:<\/strong>\u00a0807022047
\nISBN13:<\/strong>\u00a09780807022047
\nPages:<\/strong> 240<\/p>\n

“Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present,\u00a0A Disability History of the United States<\/em>\u00a0is the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. Throughout the book, historian and disability scholar Kim E. Nielsen deftly illustrates how concepts of disability have deeply shaped the American experience\u2014from deciding who was allowed to immigrate and establishing labor laws to justifying slavery and gender discrimination. Included are absorbing\u2014at times horrific\u2014narratives of blinded slaves being thrown overboard and women being involuntarily sterilized, as well as triumphant accounts of disabled miners organizing strikes and disability rights activists picketing Washington. Engrossing and profound,\u00a0A Disability History of the United States<\/em>\u00a0fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation\u2019s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all.” \u2013 Beacon Press<\/a><\/p>\n

The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author<\/strong>: Jasbir K. Paur
\nPublished<\/strong>: November 3, 2017
\nISBN<\/strong>:\u00a0822369184
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09780822369189
\nPages<\/strong>: 296<\/p>\n

“In\u00a0The Right to Maim<\/i>\u00a0Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of \u201cdebility\u201d\u2014bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors\u2014to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how debility, disability, and capacity together constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations. Puar’s analysis culminates in an interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine, in which she outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury. Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies. Tracing disability’s interaction with debility and capacity, Puar offers a brilliant rethinking of Foucauldian biopolitics while showing how disability functions at the intersection of imperialism and racialized capital.”\u00a0\u2013 Duke University Press<\/a><\/p>\n

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Recommended Videos<\/h1>\n

A Word Game to Communicate in Any Language: Ajit Narayanan<\/em><\/h3>\n

“While working with kids who have trouble speaking, Ajit Narayanan sketched out a way to think about language in pictures, to relate words and concepts in ‘maps.’ The idea now powers the FreeSpeech app, which can help nonverbal people communicate.”\u00a0\u2013 TED 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

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