Disability Independence Day 2022

 

This month, we are practicing disability awareness with a celebration of Disability Independence Day on July 26. Disability Independence Day marks the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, the first civil rights law prohibiting discrimination based on disability. The law helped break down barriers for individuals with disabilities, leading to structural improvements surrounding accessibility and guaranteed equal opportunity in public accommodations, employment, transportation and government services.

 

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Additional Resources

• Books - General Public

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Articles - General Public

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

  • "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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

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

  • "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

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

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

• Movies/Videos - General Audience

  • Intelligent Lives

  • Crip Camp

  • Sound and Fury

  • Wretches and Jabberers

  • Young, Stella. “I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much.” TEDxSydney (April 2014).  https://www.ted.com/talks/stella_young_i_m_not_your_inspiration_thank_you_very_much?language=en

  • King, Barbara J. “‘Disabled’: Just #SayTheWord.” NPR, 25 February 2016. https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/02/25/468073722/disabled-just-saytheword

• Scholarly/Academic Readings

  • Hall, Kim ed.Feminist Disability Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 

  • Ben-Moshe, Liat, Chapman, Chris and Carey, Allison C. eds.Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 

  • Shapiro, Joseph.No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1993.

  • Clare, Eli.Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.

  • Erevelles, Nirmala.Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011.

  • Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie.Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.Hall, Kim ed. Feminist Disability Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 

  • Linton, Simi.Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

  • Burch, Susan and Joyner, Hannah.Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

  • Baynton, Douglas. “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History” in Longmore, Paul and Umansky, Lauri, eds.The New Disability History: American Perspectives. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

  • Rembis, Michael, Kudlick, Catherine, and Nielsen, Kim E. eds.The Oxford Handbook of Disability History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

• Websites & 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
• 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