Search Results for disability activism

... This chapter traces the historical roots of disability activism and caring practices in Denmark and Sweden. It documents how the two countries came to diverge on the issue of sexuality and disability. In both Denmark and Sweden, what is known as the “normalization principle” guided reforms...

... Niels Erik Bank-Mikkelsen disability activism legal reform normalization principle Inger Nordqvist ...

... and the activist. The gloves remedicalize the body of the activist. Disability activism emerges from a moment of circumventing one’s submission to medical sovereignty. It is an attempt to rescript the atomizing force of disease into one of political solidarity, in which one’s body becomes the possible grounds...

... The current system of accommodation in higher education is not only ineffective; it actively impedes sustainable access. Crip spacetime, a theory of disability that focuses on systems, power, and privilege rather than individuals, demonstrates how and why that occurs. The theory of crip...

... performances. Their research preceded and coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, when many activities shifted online, creating unexpected challenges and opportunities in the disability arts world. They met with and interviewed artists and activists, attended workshops, rehearsals, performances, and exhibits...

... and sustain a culture in which disabled people’s sexuality is ignored and hindered. This attitude, and the policies and practices that emerge from it, is contrasted with the situation in Denmark, where helpers assist people with significant disabilities to perform activities like masturbation or engage in sex...

... their legal rights, and protecting them against the bullying this recognition too often entails. Parents' hard-won disability expertise and activism impressed the authors as moxie, a feisty willingness to insist on their children's rights and capacities. Without their lively insistence on their children's...

... This conclusion shares a speech the author gave to students at Georgetown University on the concept and enactment of cura personalis , or Georgetown’s mission of care of the whole person. It offers the disability justice principle of the right to have needs to remind students that their worth...

... transabled people’s active choosing of disability. He declares his lifelong struggle to love his disabled self exactly as it is irreconcilable with his use of medical technology to reshape his gendered body. This theme of contradiction is continued through an examination of how gender transition...

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... vitalities are needed to offer necessarily messy toolkits toward addressing the necessarily messy features of life. trans studies coalitional activism radical cartography community-based research Queer anthropology has yet to contend in a substantial way with disability, ableism, and crip...

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..., and the postfeminist gender settlement, I explore the extent to which the strategies were enabling as well as disabling of women’s activism. school lunch motherhood femininity ...

... expressed by regulators. They build from key bodies of knowledge, including sex worker rights, HIV activism, feminist care ethics, disability justice, anarchism, and anti-capitalism. In conversation with local and international social movements, the experiential knowledge of performers influences...

..., marketing, and distribution. These ethics go far beyond the WHS concerns expressed by regulators. They build from key bodies of knowledge, including sex worker rights, HIV activism, feminist care ethics, disability justice, anarchism, and anti-capitalism. In conversation with local and international social...

... another. Murphy observes how, through skinship, BTS illustrates a tactile life not limited to traditional notions of sex and sexuality, and afforded to her a mediated closeness in the midst of its necessary absence. intimacy skinship disability chronic illness sex and sexuality In “‘Gender...