Disability Independence Day 2021

 

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Additional Resources

• Books

  • Keah Brown (2019) Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

  • James I Charlton (2000) Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and empowerment

  • Janice M. Fialka, Arlene K. Feldman and Karen C. Mikus (2012) Parents and Professionals Partnering for Children with Disabilities: A Dance That Matters

  • Janice Fialka and Jack Pearpoint (2016). What Matters: Reflections on Disability, Community and Love

  • Haben Girma (2019) Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

  • Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner (2020)  Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of Disability Rights Activist

  • Steve Luxenberg (2009) Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret

  • Hannis Meissner Creating Blue Space: Fostering Innovative Support Practices for People with Developmental Disabilities

  • Sonya Renee Taylor (2021) The Body is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love

  • Alice Wong (2020) Disability Visibility: First person Stories from the Twenty First Century

• Books for Teens and Children

  • Kelly Fritsch (2021) We Move Together

  • Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner (2021) Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

• Articles

  • "Employment: Disability Defined." Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter26, no. 2 (2002): 255-81. 

  • Chaturvedi, Sameer. "Culture and Disability: Unheard Voices of Disabled People." Indian Anthropologist49, no. 1 (2019): 67-82.

  • Goodley, D. (2017). Dis/entangling Critical Disability Studies. In Butz K. & Schlegel R. (Authors) & Waldschmidt A., Berressem H., & Ingwersen M. (Eds.), Culture – Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies(pp. 81-110). 

  • Fraser, Benjamin. "On the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Disability." In Cognitive Disability Aesthetics: Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference, 29-48. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2018.

  • Wendell, Susan. "Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities." Hypatia16, no. 4 (2001): 17-33.

  • Hill, Eve. "Whither the Disability Rights Movement? The Future of Disability Rights Law." Human Rights42, no. 4 (2017): 2-5.

  • Griffiths, Elisabeth. "‘But You Don’t Look Disabled’: Non-visible Disabilities, Disclosure and Being an ‘insider’ in Disability Research and ‘other’ in the Disability Movement and Academia." In Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education, edited by Brown Nicole and Leigh Jennifer, 124-42. London: UCL Press, 2020.

  • Shakespeare, Tom. "Another Voice: Just What Is the Disability Perspective on Disability?" The Hastings Center Report46, no. 3 (2016): 31-32.

  • Reddy, C. Raghava. "From Impairment to Disability and Beyond: Critical Explorations in Disability Studies." Sociological Bulletin60, no. 2 (2011): 287-306.

  • Ne'eman, Ari. "Disability Politics: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Disability-Rights Movement." The New Atlantis, no. 24 (2009): 112-16.

  • "Re-Membering the Past: Reflections on Disability Histories." In Disability Histories, edited by Burch Susan and Rembis Michael, 1-14. University of Illinois Press, 2014.

  • “Closing the Disability Inclusion Gap with Business Leadership” https://www.weforum.org/our-impact/closing-the-disability-inclusion-gap-through-the-power-of-business-leadership

  • “Words Matter and it’s Time to Explore the Meaning of Ableism” https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewpulrang/2020/10/25/words-matter-and-its-time-to-explore-the-meaning-of-ableism/?sh=4be216a87162

  • https://www.ameridisability.com/post/5-inclusive-podcasts-in-tune-with-listeners-with-disability

  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875067215000863

• Movies

  • Intelligent Lives

  • Crip Camp

  • Sound and Fury

  • Wretches and Jabberers

• Short Videos

  • Disability Community is Meaningful: by Keri Gray

  • I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much Stella Young

  • Intersectionality & Disability by Keri Fray

  • Mia Mingus on What Disability Justice?

  • Our fight for disability rights and why we're not done yet | Judith Heumann

• Websites and Resources
  • MSU Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities
  • MSU Center for Research in Autism , Intellectual, and other Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
  • Michigan Developmental Disabilities Institute
  • Michigan Developmental Disabilities Council
  • Administration on Disabilities
  • National Council on Disability
  • Kalamazoo RESA
• Advocacy
  • Michigan Disability Rights Coalition
  • Michigan Disability Rights
  • Michigan Family Voices
  • Self Advocates of Michigan
  • Self Advocacy Resource and Technical Assistance Center
  • TASH
• Art & Culture
  • DisArt
  • Disability Visibility Project
  • The Museum of Disability History
  • National Arts and Disability Center
• Education
  • Alt+Shift
  • Michigan Alliance For Families
  • Michigan Department of Education Office of Special Education and Early Intervention
  • Michigan College Access
• Employment
  • Association of People Supporting Employment First
  • Disability Employment First Planning Tool
  • Michigan Work Incentives Planning and Assistance
  • National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth
  • US Office of Disability Employment Policy
• Family Support
  • Michigan Family Center for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (The Family Center)
  • Parent to Parent
  • The Sibling Leadership Network
• Independent Living
  • Disability Network Michigan
  • Michigan Statewide Independent Living Council