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Ableism and Language

  • Ableist Language and Alternatives (this also addresses/responds to some of the controversy about this topic as being too PC, policing, and responding too sensitively to an imagined or unintended insult, AND this blog is written by an autistic self-advocate (Lydia’s preferred terms). Autistic Hoya
  • Kattari, S. K., Olzman, M., & Hanna, M. D. (2018). “You Look Fine!” Ableist Experiences by People With Invisible Disabilities. Affilia, 33(4), 477-492.
  • Wolbring, G. (2008). The politics of ableism. Development, 51(2), 252-258.
  • Goodley, D. (2014). Dis/ability studies: Theorising disablism and ableism. Routledge.

Intersectionality

Models of Disability

  • Haegele, J. A., & Hodge, S. (2016). Disability discourse: Overview and critiques of the medical and social models. Quest, 68(2), 193-206.
  • Kafer, A. (2013). Feminist, queer, crip. Indiana University Press.

Documentaries

Critiques of Disability Simulations

  • Nario-Redmond, M. R., Gospodinov, D., & Cobb, A. (2017). Crip for a day: The unintended negative consequences of disability simulations. Rehabilitation psychology, 62(3), 324.
  • VanPuymbrouck, L., Heffron, J. L., Sheth, A. J., & Lee, D. (2017). Experiential Learning: Critical Analysis of Standardized Patient and Disability Simulation. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 1(3), 5.
  • Valle, J. W., & Connor, D. J. (2019). Rethinking disability: A disability studies approach to inclusive practices. Routledge.

Disability Studies ‘Must’ Reads!

  • Clare, E. (2017). Brilliant imperfection: Grappling with cure. Duke University Press.
  • Linton, S. (1998). Disability studies/not disability studies. Disability & Society, 13(4), 525-539.
  • Goodley, D. (2016). Disability studies: An interdisciplinary introduction. Sage.
  • Charlton, J. I. (2000). Nothing about us without us: Disability oppression and empowerment. Univ of California Press.
  • Gill, C. J. (1997). Four types of integration in disability identity development. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 9(1), 39-46.
  • Kafer, A. (2013). Feminist, queer, crip. Indiana University Press.
  • Garland-Thomson, R. (2005). Feminist disability studies. Signs: Journal of women in Culture and Society, 30(2), 1557-1587.
  • Davis, L. J. (Ed.). (2006). The disability studies reader. Taylor & Francis.
  • Meekosha, H., & Shuttleworth, R. (2009). What’s so ‘critical’about critical disability studies?. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 15(1), 47-75.
  • Watson, N., & Vehmas, S. (Eds.). (2019). Routledge handbook of disability studies. Routledge.
  • Linton, S. (1998). Claiming disability: Knowledge and identity. NYU Press.
  • Hendren, S. (2020). What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World. Penguin.

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