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Disability and Sex

2017

This topic is very dear to my heart and something I've wanted to talk about for a long time. I hope that my efforts here show how much this matters to me and that I continue to demonstrate my values of diversity and accessibility in more and more videos.

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What Happens When You’re Disabled But Nobody Can Tell

The author and clinical psychologist Andrew Solomon examines the disabilities that ramps and designated parking spots don’t address.

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Andrew Solomon
2020
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What Is Ableism, and What Is Its Impact?

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.

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Zawn Villines
2021
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Sex and Disability

The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous.

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Robert McRuer (editor), Anna Mollow (editor)
2012
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Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don’t Learn in School

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.

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Olivia B. Waxman
2020
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I’m an Angry Disabled Woman. Here’s What I Want You to Know About Inaccessibility.

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.

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Sylvia Colt-Lacayo
2020
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Does My Wheelchair Make You Uncomfortable? How My Disability May Have Cost Me a Job.

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.

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Dayniah Manderson
2018
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What Is Ableism?

Ableism centers around the notion that people with disabilities are imperfect and need fixing.

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Ariane Resnick
2021
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6 Instances of Discrimination People with Disabilities Face Every Day

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.

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Tiffiny Carlson
2013
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Ascending Adversity: The Journey of a Polio Survivor Dealing with Disability and Discrimination

In this heartwarming memoir, Mohammed Yousuf takes us back to when he was first diagnosed with polio at a very young age and his journey to adulthood, facing hardships he could never have imagined.

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Mohammed Yousuf
2020
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“I’m Only Disabled When I Experience Barriers or Bias”: Shani Dhanda Is Here to Challenge Your Perceptions

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.

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Amanda Randone
2020
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