Disability Studies

The link to the Google Document is here, and it includes the advertisement as well as footnotes for news I reference. LINK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13REpUzKXYEtbeorUTWry4vmBiiVVR_t77Spy6GqCud0/edit?usp=sharing 

I recommend that y'all read this article from the Los Angeles Times about Eryn Brown, a talent manager at Management 360. She speaks on her experiences in Hollywood as a disabled person and the humiliation of attending physically inaccessible awards ceremonies. She represents Nicole Newnham, the co-writer and co-director of Crip Camp. The article includes some quotes from Newnham and from Jim LeBrecht about disability inclusion in Hollywood.

Hi all! Here's my final paper, which explores the links between capitalism and ableism in the American workplace:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lpbeKZXpjQpUbvcAflyBYuhOFNSokNO1OzQJ7dINF-I/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you all for a great semester! 

Hi friends! Here is the link to my final project :)

“I almost want to get out of my wheelchair and kiss the fucking dirt”: Analyzing the foundations of the disability justice movement in Crip Camp

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11AYDHwzK3j5IdZE9HatMSFEFu2Q2L6V69FuF7khLVKw/edit?usp=sharing

I talked about this a bit in my breakout room last night and I might talk about it in my final project, but I thought I'd share it in a post in case I end up going in a different direction with my paper.

I saw a tweet a few days ago and I've been thinking a lot about it ever since. The tweet reads, "we don't talk enough about the imposter syndrome / burnout crossover when you don't think you are allowed to feel burnout. not to be earnest but it's something I've experienced and something I've observed in my friends in the past. you're burnt out but you don't believe you've done enough or, for lack of a better word, earned it."

We were always taught that deafness is a loss/lack of hearing ability, that it is an unfortunate reality, but what if it is the other way around? What if it is a gift, what if deaf people are luckier than us as they have received access to a dimension of living and communicating that we would have never discovered as hearing people? We should learn from those we used to perceive as ‘lacking’ and reflect on why our ways of perceiving the world are considered the norm. 

Time and time again in this class we have discussed intersectionality. I think that once again, the readings for this week highlighted that cultures can be dependent on one's other identities, and the extent to which they feel welcome in those communities. I think that often, cultures are formed through shared struggles. For the disability community, I've been thinking about how the struggles might vary because the range of disabilities varies so much. Are the goals of wheelchair users the same as those with intellectual disabilities, or blind people, or as folks in multiple or all of those categories? I think ideally communities would all be fighting for the collective liberation of all people; we should not have to pick and choose which communities we fight for.

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Death. Incarceration. Invisibility. Erasure. Undesirability. Helplessness. Capitalism. Institutionalization.

Has it really not changed at all?

Are we stuck in a vicious circle forever?

How do we break free?

Institutionalization. Capitalism. Helplessness. Undesirability. Erasure. Invisibility. Incarceration. Death.

Yeah, don’t be hungry. Have some crayon.

A few years ago, I was eating lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, a local Vietnamese-Thai place called Pho Thai Nam. As our waiter brought over our glasses of water and other table’s drinks, something in the cups caught my attention. Each one had a plastic straw placed in it with a little piece of the paper wrapping covering each top. My dad immediately took his straw out, telling me that he wished they had asked if he wanted one since it just got in the way as he drank anyway. I knew that I did not need one either. Knowing how much plastic ends up in our oceans, I felt guilty wasting a straw.