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Tikkun (2000) 15 (3): 76–79.
Published: 01 August 2000
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 21.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Check out the powerful web-only articles on this topic at tikkun.org/disability . In this special issue, we share the perspectives of activists, theologians, and theorists writing from the front lines of disability justice work. Some expose the threat of violence against people...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 22–23.
Published: 01 November 2014
...TOM SHAKESPEARE The key ideological principle at the core of the global disability movement is called “the social model.” The social model of disability contends that disability is not a medical issue but rather an equality issue like gender, race, and sexuality: the problem is one of social...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 27–28.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of inappropriate venues; I didn’t flinch. “I have a disability,” I said, though it was plain she’d already noticed. A firm full stop followed that statement, though I knew full well I didn’t answer her question. I’m more than willing to talk about disability, but I’m disinclined to do so while waiting...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 31–32.
Published: 01 November 2014
...LYDIA BROWN Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 A ndre mccollins was eighteen years old in 2002 when he was a student at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts. Like many of the students at the center, a residential institution for people with disabilities, Andre is autistic...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 37–38.
Published: 01 November 2014
...LAVONNA LOVERN Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 M ost u.s. progressives share the view that the destigmatization of “disability” is a positive thing. Translating that vision into widespread social practice, however, is proving difficult to do. The U.S. mainstream has much to learn from...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 33–35.
Published: 01 November 2014
... impediment did not obviate his responsibility to lead the people of Israel out of slavery. Follow Me by Shoshanna Bauer. Judaism stands strongly against the exploitation of those with disabilities, which are described in Hebrew as moom (blemish, impairment, disability, or handicap). Nevertheless...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 43–44.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of disabled people continues to be regarded as a burdensome after thought. In a similar vein, many workplaces and union offices frequently fail to have the ramps in place that would allow disabled people who require wheelchairs for mobility to flourish. Even for religious progressives and advocates...
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (2): 24–25.
Published: 01 April 2015
...JULIA WATTS BELSER Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 A recent class-action lawsuit brought against the city of New York by Disability Rights Advocates affirmed that residents with disabilities face disproportionate risks of catastrophic harm and death during large-scale disasters...
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Published: 01 November 2014
David M. Planka ( plankomatic.com ) When disabilities are diagnosed in utero, some turn to religious authorities for advice. “My friends presented the possibility of abortion as a Jewish legal question,” the author writes. Self-Portrait as a Schizophrenic by David Planka. More
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Published: 01 November 2014
Tom Olin Participants in ADAPT, a grassroots disability rights group, demonstrate against proposed cuts to Medicaid in Washington, D.C. More
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Published: 01 November 2014
Cheryl Kaplan “Is this what disability spiritualities might look like?” the author writes. “Here is a sanctuary, created by nothing but bodies, attention, and soft fabrics.” More
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Published: 01 November 2014
Creative Commons/U.S. Department of Labor Disability rights activists from ADAPT talk with U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Seth Harris about federal rules governing personal attendants. More
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Published: 01 November 2014
Creative Commons “Because the spirit is always whole, there is no designation of some people as able and others as disabled,” Lovern writes. More
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Published: 01 November 2014
Mareva Minerbi Participants in “Helping Dances” gather outdoors to enact loving interdependence, offering caring touch and affirmation to other people with disabilities. More
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 24–26.
Published: 01 November 2014
... affective barriers to religious participation for people with disabilities. With accessibility as the rallying cry, religious communities can move even closer to justice for and inclusion of all — disabled and non disabled alike. Reading the gospel of John through a hermeneutic of liberation, Christian...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 41–42.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... Just as so many others have done before, the stranger chose to bestow the blessings of God on me — a Latino man with cerebral palsy — in particular that night, singling me out among all the people in the street that evening. Did he single me out because he assumed I had a disability? If so, did he see...
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Emily Rabasto At a candlelight vigil in Sacramento, a mourner from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network weeps for the hundreds of disabled people who have been killed by their parents or caregivers. More
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 29–30.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Cheryl Kaplan “Is this what disability spiritualities might look like?” the author writes. “Here is a sanctuary, created by nothing but bodies, attention, and soft fabrics.” ...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 35–36.
Published: 01 November 2014
...ELI CLARE Copyright © Eli Clare 2014 L et me lay it down. I am furious with you — you who are known in the media only as the father of a disabled girl you call Ashley. You say she has the consciousness of a three-month-old. You chose a surgeon to lift her six-year-old uterus out of her...
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