The narratives embedded in disability policy influence everything from budget priorities to program eligibility and ...
Disability equity is not a distant aspiration; it is a political necessity.
Think about your underlying assumptions about disability. What causes disability? What are the sources of and solutions to disability-related challenges? Experts categorize ways of thinking about ...
Ways of thinking about disability differ across cultures and can be classified into three general models: the moral model, the medical model, and the social model (Olkin & Pledger, 2003). Under the ...
Disability forms part of a man’s condition. At one point or the other, almost everyone will be impaired temporarily or permanently. It is a multiplex, progressive, contested, and a subject that is ...
The Disability Discrimination Act remains one of Australia’s most important human rights laws, but for it to protect people ...
We live in a world shaped by the stories we tell — about ourselves, about others, and about what it means to live a good life. But when society tells only one story about disability — that it is a ...
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I sometimes think back to that little girl in 6th and 7th standard who started falling apart quietly inside, and eventually ...
Welcome back to Mixtape, the TechCrunch podcast that looks at the human element that powers technology. For this episode we spoke with Meredith Whittaker, co-founder of the AI Now Institute and ...