Disability Independence Day 2020

Photo: Protest for the Rehabilitation Act 1973, Courtesy of Tom Olin

This month, we celebrate “Disability Independence Day” which commemorates the signing of the “Americans with Disabilities Act” (ADA) on July 26th, 1990. The ADA provides protection for people with disabilities in their “fight” to acquire equitable access to our nation’s institutions. The following members of the MSU community have made significant contributions to this cause.

 

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Additional Resources

• Scholarly/Academic Suggested Readings

  • 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.

  • 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. 

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

  • 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.

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

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

• Popular Suggested Readings/Video

  • “After #OscarsSoWhite, Disability Waits for Its Moment,” New York Times, 19 July 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/arts/after-oscarssowhite-disability-waits-for-its-moment.html

  • Catapano, Peter and Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, eds. About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019.

  • Elman, Julie Passanante. “Policing at the Synapse: Ferguson, Race, and the Disability Politics of the Teen Brain.” Somatosphere http://somatosphere.net/2015/policing-at-the-synapse-ferguson-race-and-the-disability-politics-of-the-teen-brain.html/  

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

  • Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. Carework: Dreaming Disability Justice. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018.

  • Wong, Alice, ed. Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty First Century. New York: Vintage, 2020.

  • 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