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Books · Oct 2022
The Future Is Disabled
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning SongsLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaPiepzna-Samarasinha turns disabled survival, grief, mutual aid, and imagination in the COVID era into a political account of disabled futures.
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Books · Sep 2022
Year of the Tiger
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's LifeAlice WongAlice Wong's memoir braids Asian American identity, disability activism, family, humor, media work, and community building into a personal archive of disability justice.
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Books · Jun 2020
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Alice WongEdited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility gathers first-person writing by contemporary disabled people, bringing disability culture, media representation, embodiment, law, art, and everyday life into public view.
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Books · May 2020
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Liat Ben-MosheDecarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
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Books · Jan 2020
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaBeyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
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Books · Oct 2018
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha frames disability justice as practical knowledge from sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown communities, centering collective access, care webs, and liberation where no one is left behind.
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Videos · Mar 2023
Collective care is the work
Janey Starling & Seyi Falodun-LiburdDrawing on Black feminist and disability-justice traditions, two Level Up organizers define collective care as movement infrastructure rather than a benefit added after political work.
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Videos · Apr 2014
I'm Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much
Stella YoungIn this TEDxSydney talk, Stella Young critiques inspiration porn and the way nondisabled society consumes disabled people as objects of moral uplift.
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Videos · Jan 2014
I Got 99 Problems... Palsy Is Just One
Maysoon ZayidMaysoon Zayid uses comedy to show how Palestinian, Muslim, female, and disabled identities intersect while challenging ableism in entertainment and public culture.
Articles
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Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm
Mia MingusMingus names the structural experience of disabled people being forced to disclose bodies, needs, medical histories, and vulnerability in order to access basic survival.
02Articles · Sep 2016
10 Principles of Disability Justice
Sins InvalidSins Invalid condenses disability justice into principles including intersectionality, leadership by those most impacted, anti-capitalism, cross-movement organizing, wholeness, interdependence, collective access, and collective liberation.
03Articles · Jun 2015
Disability Justice: A Working Draft
Patty BernePatty Berne's Sins Invalid essay distinguishes disability rights from disability justice, centering intersectionality, leadership by those most impacted, anti-capitalism, cross-movement organizing, collective access, and collective liberation.
04Articles · Aug 2011
Moving Toward the Ugly
Mia MingusMingus writes from disability justice to critique how beauty, normality, and desirability organize bodily value, proposing a liberatory politics of moving toward the ugly.
05Articles · May 2011
Access Intimacy: The Missing Link
Mia MingusMia Mingus introduces access intimacy: the bodily ease, trust, and relational safety that can emerge when someone deeply understands and respects a disabled person's access needs.
06Articles · Feb 2011
Changing the Framework: Disability Justice
Mia MingusMia Mingus explains why social justice movements must move from treating disability as an individual problem or single-issue rights concern toward understanding it as political experience, community history, and a framework for collective liberation.
Papers
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Feminist Disability Studies
Rosemarie Garland-ThomsonGarland-Thomson maps feminist disability studies as a field, showing how disability reshapes feminist questions about bodies, staring, normalcy, dependency, and public life.
02Papers · Jan 2003
As Good As It Gets: Queer Theory and Critical Disability
Robert McRuerMcRuer connects queer theory and critical disability studies, arguing that compulsory able-bodiedness and heteronormativity jointly produce normal bodies, normal desires, and acceptable life.
03Papers · Jun 1989
Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability
Susan WendellWendell's classic article places disability inside feminist philosophy and medical ethics, critiquing how medical authority, bodily norms, and social environments produce disabled experience.
