Changing the Cultural Conversation
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Welcome to my blog! I'm a writer and a graduate student passionate about disability rights and disability justice.
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Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg
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Changing the Conversation
- Autism and Empathy: Dispelling Myths and Breaking Stereotypes
- Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project
- Disability Art and Culture Project
- Disability as Beauty
- Disability Right Now
- Disability Social History Project
- Don't Dis My Ability
- Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference
- FWD/Forward: Feminists with Disabilities for a Way Forward
- Interact
- Museum of disABILITY History
- My Body Politic: An Illustrated History
- Not Your Inspiration
- Ouch! Disability Talk Show
- Positive Exposure
- Positively Disabled
- Ragged Edge Online
- Raven's Wing Poetry
- Sexability
- Shameless: The ART of Disability
- Sins Invalid
- That's Not My Name
- The Ouch! Blog
- This Is What Disability Looks Like
- Unpuzzled
- Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back
Inspiration porn
- "Inspiration porn" annoys disabled people
- Bad attitudes do not cause disability any more than good attitudes guarantee health
- Blogging Against Disabilism Day
- Comedian Laurence Clark demonstrates why he hates being called inspiring
- Cripple Porn, #Wheelchair #Fishing, and #Disability as Inspiration
- Disability Stuff
- Inspiration
- Inspiration Porn
- Inspiration porn shames people with disabilities
- Musings about "Inspiration Porn"
- The Dangers of Inspiration Porn: The Case of Oscar Pistorius, a Great Athlete
- The Inspirational Meme: How to Disrespect Disabled People From the Comfort of Home
- The only disability in life… is a disability
- The Paralympics: Art & Inspiration
- We're not here for your inspiration
- Who else is tired and booored of being told to simply chin up?
Resources
- Disability & Media Alliance Project
- Disability Culture Watch
- Disability in the Media
- Disability Related Blogs and Narratives
- Disability Rhetoric
- Media & Disability
- Media and Disability Program
- Media and Disability Resources
- Media dis&dat
- Media Representation of Disabled People
- Representing Disability in an Ableist World
Terminologies
- ABILITY Magazine Terminology Guidelines
- Beyond the AP Stylebook
- Disability is Natural: Language and Communication
- Disability Terminology: A Starter Kit for Nondisabled People and the Media
- I'm Not a "Person With a Disability": I'm a Disabled Person
- Identity and Hypocrisy: A Second Argument Against Person-First Language
- Language Matters, But It's Not the Most Important Thing
- National Center on Disability and Journalism Style Guide
- On Language
- People-First Language: An Unholy Crusade
- Person-first language: Noble intent but to what effect?
- The Flaws of Person-First Language
- The Problem with Person-First Language: What's Wrong with This Picture?
- The Significance of Semantics — Person-First Language: Why It Matters
- Why I Dislike Person-First Language
Writings
- aspie rhetor
- Bad Cripple
- Ballastexistenz
- Crip Confessions
- cripchick's blog
- crooked lunch
- Feminist Disability Studies Blog
- Leaving Evidence
- Low Visionary
- Planet of the Blind
- Rolling Around in My Head
- Ruth Madison
- Smart Ass Cripple
- Space Crip: Disability in Sci-Fi Fantasy and Beyond
- That Crazy Crippled Chick
- The Myth of Binary Sex and Gender
- This Ain't Livin'
- To the Other Side of Dreaming
- Wheelchair Dancer
- Wheelie Catholic
Academic Work
- Deconstructing Autism as an Empathy Disorder: A Literature Review
- Destigmatizing Representation: A Review of “Stigma: An Enigma Demystified” by Lerita M. Coleman Brown
- Looking into Language: A Study of How Medical Students View Disability
- Investigating Silences: A Review of “The Rhetoric of Ableism” by James L. Cherney
- On Communication and Double Standards: David Smukler’s Critique of the Theory of Mind Theory of Autism
- Caught Inside a Paradox: How Cultural Representations Perpetuate Disability Stigma
- The Body as Social Theory: An Analysis of Tobin Siebers’ Disability Theory
- Staring But Not Seeing: A Review of Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race by Patricia Williams
- Where Are the Elders with Autism? Reflections Upon Reading Fred Pelka’s What We Have Done
- Ableism in the Anti-Vaccination Movement: A Qualitative Content Analysis of the Great Mothers Facebook Page
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