By Siobhán Forshaw — 2021
This is not about meeting criteria and ticking boxes, it’s about finally creating the generous, plural and radical art world that many of us want and need.
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Insider spoke to a variety of individuals who have different disabilities to highlight some of the biggest issues and types of discrimination that they face in the workplace.
We should remember that while disabled people can become good at asking for help, few of us are entirely comfortable with it.
The author and clinical psychologist Andrew Solomon examines the disabilities that ramps and designated parking spots don’t address.
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Ableism refers to bias, prejudice, and discrimination against people with disabilities. It hinges on the idea that people with disabilities are less valuable than nondisabled people.
Most students learn that Keller, born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Ala., was left deaf and blind after contracting a high fever at 19 months, and that her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her braille, lip-reading, finger spelling and eventually, how to speak.
Society prefers I talk about how I overcame my obstacles rather than the injustices I face within a world that is not built around the needs of the disabled community.
I’m a tenured, deeply qualified New York City teacher, but some only see my disability. At least my students know the impact I can make in the world.
Ableism centers around the notion that people with disabilities are imperfect and need fixing.
Discrimination is a fact of life for many groups of people, but to be honest, I never really gave much thought to discrimination growing up. It wasn’t until I became disabled when I was 14 years old when I finally understood what discrimination meant.
Shani Dhanda is on a mission to make the world inclusive for disabled people. Here, she speaks to Amanda Randone about the importance of universal design and how the pandemic could prompt a paradigm shift in disabled people’s working lives.