Disability Justice Goes Beyond the Social Model
The social model of disability successfully turned the focus from biomedicine toward society. Is disability justice the next step?
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The social model of disability successfully turned the focus from biomedicine toward society. Is disability justice the next step?
Alice Wong, author of the 2022-2023 KU Common Book "Disability Visibility," talks about disability activism and hopes to educate students on societal discriminations against disabled people.
"I pushed the button on the battery-powered component of my wheelchair. It didn’t work. Before starting to panic, I pressed it again. Nothing."
We’ve taken our -isms too far.
Universal masking may be “an important tool for mitigating the effects of structural racism in schools,” according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.