Contrary to some literature, negative attitudes toward people with disabilities are not like
those involving race, ethnicity, gender, or even religion. Norare they prevalent among most …

In 1967, the US Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (VRA) awarded $331,000 to the
Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Foundation to fund a new company, the National Theatre …

Reviews the book, Disabled people as second class citizens by MG Eisenberg, C. Griggens,
and R. Duval (1982). This book attempts to sensitize its readers to the discrimination …

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this
assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often …

Iwrite this from the luxurious condition of temporary disability, laid up for a week or so after
arthroscopic knee surgery. My crutches stand in the corner; my knee is swathed in a fat …

On April 5, 1977, approximately 150 disabled people and their nondisabled accomplices
entered a federal building in San Francisco. They came holding canes, food, and sleeping …

IN VARIOUS CULTURES,“DISABILITY” HAS BEEN defined in many ways. Multiple framings
were developed in different social institutions and cultural spheres and have served many …

In an important article laying out the interface of disability studies and oral history, Karen
Hirsch has argued that oral history serves to free disabled people's voices, which have long …

At the commencement of the Unruly Salon Series, Dr. Catherine Frazee asked us to
remember that the “Unruly Salon ordains and inducts each of us to pay attention, to make …