Praesidalism

We Walk ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Amy S. F. Lutz
Keyword(s):  
First Language ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Communicative Function ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
Inherent Part

This chapter explains how it is easy for the author to focus on the communicative function of language when a mother has a child with minimal language. It points out how language remains a blunt instrument in the author's house as she paid more attention to equipping Jonah with tools to express his preferences. It also discusses vitriol that was being exchanged online over whether to use the phrase “autistic person” or “person with autism.” The chapter emphasizes the person-first language endorsed by the disability rights movement since the 1980s. It refers to Lydia Brown and other self-advocates that opt for identity-first language, such as “autistic person” or simply “autistic,” as they understand that autism is an inherent part of an individual's identity.

“Companions”

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-418
Author(s):  
Scot Danforth
Keyword(s):  
Summer Camp ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
Racial Harmony ◽  
The University ◽  
Twentieth Century America

The documentary Crip Camp presents a 1970s summer camp for disabled youth as a place of friendship and political dialogues that spawned the American disability rights movement. The film also represented Camp Jened as a haven of racial harmony and inclusion. Jened was not the only American micro-community of disability solidarity and political possibilities that also involved questions of racial politics. Scholars have criticized disability activists and disability studies scholars for neglecting problems of racial oppression. This historical study examines three examples of empowering disability subcultures in twentieth century America: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Warm Springs rehabilitation resort from the mid-1920s through the mid-1940s, the Rolling Quads at the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1960s, and Camp Interdependence in California in the 1980s. The article interrogates the racial politics of these egalitarian communities.

Virtual Activists? Women and the Making of Identities of Disability

Hypatia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Meekosha
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
Disability Rights Movement

This article examines the rise of a feminist engagement with the disability rights movement. Three realms of social being—individual, society, and the state—interact in the making of the identities of disability. The emergence of Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA), suggests the ways women with disabilities come to identify with an autonomous women's group and the ways in which the particular forms of our activisms are produced.

The Disability Rights Movement in Japan: Past, present and future

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 855-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiko Hayashi ◽  
Masako Okuhira
Keyword(s):  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disability Rights Movement

scholarly journals Teaching and the Experience of Disability: The Pedagogy of Ed Roberts

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 464-488
Author(s):  
Scot Danforth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
The United States ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
Main Form ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The World

Ed Roberts was a renowned activist considered to be one of the founding leaders of the American disability rights movement. Although he engaged in numerous political strategies, his main form of activism was teaching in his prolific public speaking career across the United States and around the world. The content and methods of his pedagogy were crafted from his own personal experiences as a disabled man. His teaching featured autobiographic selections from his own life in which he fought and defeated forces of oppression and discrimination. This article examines Roberts’ disability rights teaching in relation to the experiential sources, political content, and teaching techniques.

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