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Virtual Displays: December 2022 - Ableism

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"The practices and dominant attitudes in society that devalue and limit the potential of persons with disabilities. A set of practices and beliefs that assign inferior value (worth) to people who have developmental, emotional, physical or psychiatric disabilities."

- From Stop Ableism website.

Resources

About us: Essays from the disability series of the New York times by Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Editors)
Call Number: HV1568 .A26 2019

Publication Date: 2019
Beep by David Wanczyk
Call Number: GV880.75 .W36 2017

Publication Date: 2018
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepznia-Samarasinha
Call Number: HV1568 .P54 2018

Publication Date: 2018
Deaf Heritage by Jack R. Gannon
Call Number: HV 2530 .G36 2012

ISBN: 9781563685149

Publication Date: 2012
Disability: A Reference Handbook by Michael Rembis
Call Number: HV1553 .R46 2019

Publication Date: 2019
Disability and the Media by Katie Ellis; Gerard Goggin
Call Number: HV1568 .E4453 2015

Publication Date: 2017
Disability in Film and Literature by Nicole Markoti
Call Number: PN1995.9.H34 M37 2016

Publication Date: 2016
Enabling Lives by Brian T. McMahon (Editor); Linda R. Shaw (Editor)
Call Number: HV 1552.3 .E53 2000

Publication Date: 1999
Inventing the Feeble Mind by James Trent
Call Number: HV3006.A4 .T74 2017

Publication Date: 2016
Neurotribes: The legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
Call Number: RC553.A88 S54 2015

Publication Date: 2015
No pity: People with disabilities forging a new civil rights movement by Joseph Shapiro
Call Number: HV 1553 .S52 1994

Publication Date: 1994
Odd Girl Out by Laura James
Call Number: RC553.A88 J355 2018

Publication Date: 2018
Rhetorics of overcoming: Rewriting narratives of disability and accessibility in writing studies by Allison Hitt
Call Number: LC4028 .H57 2021

Publication Date: 2021
Seven Wheelchairs by Gary Presley
Call Number: RC181.U5 P74 2008

Publication Date: 2008
Theatre and Disability by Petra Kuppers
Call Number: PN1590.H36 K88 2017

Publication Date: 2017

Disability in Higher Education by Nancy J. Evans; Ellen M. Broido; Kirsten R. Brown; Autumn K. Wilke
Publication Date: 2017
Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau
Call Number: CTE (Employees) HV3011 .L33 2021

Publication Date: 2021
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong (editor)
Publication Date: 2020
Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock
Publication Date: 2020
Don't Call Me Inspirational by Harilyn Rousso
Publication Date: 2013
Being Seen : One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson
Publication Date: 2021
Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability by Michelle Jarman (Editor); Leila Monaghan (Editor); Alison Quaggin Harkin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2017
Still Living on the Edges: A Disabled Women's Reader by Diana Driedger (editor)
Publication Date: 2021
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepznia-Samarasinha
Call Number: HV1568 .P54 2018

Publication Date: 2018
What We Have Done by Fred Pelka
Publication Date: 2012
From the Periphery: Real-Life Stories of Disability by Pia Justesen; Tom Harkin
Publication Date: 2019
What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
Publication Date: 2020
Seven Wheelchairs by Gary Presley
Call Number: RC181.U5 P74 2008

Publication Date: 2008

You Can't Ask That: Season 1
A documentary series that confronts prejudices and breaks down taboos in our society in an authentic and relatable way. Each episode asks a group of people who live with different disabilities the awkward, inappropriate or uncomfortable questions they hear all the time with honesty.

Episodes: Wheelchair Users, Tourette Syndrome, Visual Impairment, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Limb Difference, Little People, Down Syndrome, Facial Difference

You Can't Ask That: Season 2
A documentary series that confronts prejudices and break down taboos in our society in an authentic and relatable way. Each episode asks a group of people who live with different disabilities the awkward, inappropriate or uncomfortable questions they hear all the time with honesty.

Episodes: Schizophrenia, Deaf, PTSD, Youth, Bipolar, Multiple Sclerosis, Anxiety, Parkinson's

Defiant Lives: The Rise Of The Disability Rights Movement
A film that traces the origins of the world-wide disability rights movement. It tells the stories of the individuals who bravely put their lives on the line to create a better world where everyone is valued and can participate.

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Featuring interviews and rarely seen archival footage, the film reveals how these activists fought to live outside of institutions, challenged the stigmas and negative image of disability portrayed by the media, demanded access to public transportation, and battled to reframe disability rights as a social responsibility relevant to us all.