This interdisciplinary minor examines disability from perspectives in health sciences, humanities and social sciences. Gaining a well-rounded understanding of disability history, rights, and lived ...
In her candid memoir, Homeless: Growing up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India (2023), K. Vaishali shares her encounters with a world that almost always misunderstands disabilities and negates the lived ...
Narrative prosthesis and the materiality of metaphor / David T. Mitchell -- Visible cripple (scars and other disfiguring displays included) / Mark Jeffreys -- Tender organs, narcissism, and identity ...
If one were to strip descriptions of one’s ethnic or racial appearance from a story, the way Toni Morrison does in Recitatif, then a search for a person’s race will often rely on interconnectedness or ...
Undergraduate, graduate and professional students are advocating for the institution of an official disability studies department at Yale. The Yale Disability Studies Network, a multidisciplinary ...
On Oct. 13, disability studies took center stage in Red Square at Ramping Up for Access, an event hosted by the Disability Cultural Initiative. Amy Kenny, inaugural director of the initiative, remarks ...
To cite this work: Bramley, R. (2025). Dancing on Thin Ice: Adventures in Reconciling the Deaf Studies/Disability Studies Divide. Disability Dialogues. Sheffield: iHuman, University of Sheffield. Ryan ...
Disability studies is a diverse interdisciplinary field that investigates broad questions about the nature, meanings, and consequences of disability from interrelated social, historical, cultural, ...
Book cover image of the Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies has been published (March 2024). Led, curated and driven by Dr ...