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Resources, Links & Reading Recommendations

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Resources and Further Learning about Disability and Ableism

 

Clickable Links:

 

UNHR video about Ableism

Working definition of Ableism (Jan. 2022 Update)

Talila A. Lewis

Indigenous Perspectives of Disability

Minerva Rivas Velarde, Disability Studies Quarterly. Dec. 2021

Understanding ableism and negative reactions to disability

Dana S. Dunn. American Psychological Association. Dec. 2021

 

Stella Young’s TedTalk  “I Am Not Your Inspiration”

Inclusive Language Guide for Media

Humber Polytechnic

Ableism is The Bane of My Motherf***ng Existence

Barnard Center for Research on Women

Short video on Ableism (language warning)

Eight Ways to Support Disability Justice and Counter Ableism

Michelle Stack and Heidi L. Janz

The Tyee, Feb. 2024

Let's Raise the Roof - A Social Model of Disability

Welsh Government video

Great Books To Read

Care Work: Dreamin disability justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto, by Tiffany Yu
Ableist Rhetoric by James L. Cherney
Committed by Susan Burch
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Francis Ryan
How Ableism Fuels Racism by Lamar Hardwick
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
Ableist Rhetoric, by James L. Cherney
Academic Ableism by Jay Timothy Dolmage
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