COVID-19 didn’t affect everyone equally. This book explores the pandemic’s toll on vulnerable and marginalized populations — from access to treatment to housing and incarceration — through real-life narratives and lessons for social justice.
Fashion historian Nicole K. Rivas on how years of archival research into secondhand garments became a book about memory, family, and inheritance.
Author Michael Kane reflects on his deaf identity, his years at RIT/NTID, the Deaf President Now protest, and the 18 interviews behind his new book celebrating deaf, hard of hearing, and CODA accounting professionals.
The imprisonment of Ruth López should alarm everyone who believes in human rights and the rule of law. Ruth’s pretrial detention order is set to expire in June. Activism now is urgently needed to demand her unconditional release and prevent another extension.
People with severe mental illness are among the most marginalized people in America, many of them in prison or otherwise institutionalized and forgotten, others living on the street. All of them deserve care and respect.
The Australian Disability Royal Commission was conducted in early 2019 in response to damning reports about the continuing violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation experienced by Australians with disability. There are five criteria that can potentially improve the likelihood of lived experience-led research informing public hearings and government inquiries.
Much of the existing research on disability and mental health is filtered through clinical, managerial, or policy-driven frameworks. These approaches prioritize outcomes, compliance, and recovery, often at the expense of understanding how harm is produced through everyday institutional practices.
Drawing on individual and everyday experience, even in the humanities and social sciences, remains an innovative approach – perhaps even more so in a field as specific as disability studies. Anne-Lyse Chabert makes a case for why we must give precedence above all else to the day-to-day experience of disabled individuals who reconstruct their relationship with the world in a different way.
How do music, media, ideologies, conventional knowledge, traditions, and the political economy shape our sense of identity – both at a personal level and as a nation? Dr. Lei (Nada) Peng found answers to these questions through the prism of Chinese rock music.
Book review of An Autistic-ADHD Journey: Building a True Identity Post-Discovery by Rachel Winder, reviewed by Dr. Nicholas Chown.