Disability, Chronic Illness, and Deafness (talk page)
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Grace Keller wrote:
Comments From a friend:
- Eli Clare has a good page of resources http://eliclare.com/background/queer-disability-resources
- I love this and all writing by Mia Mingus http://www.resistinc.org/newsletters/articles/changing-framework-disability-justice
- and I notice that the first time disability justice is mentioned is about integrating it into a curricula. I think it should have its own section a lot sooner. I think there should be a section about the independent living movement and it's giant success as well as the current DJ critiques of it.
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I think then you are missing the best definition of legally defined disability "the ADA defines a person with a disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. This includes people who have a record of such an impairment, even if they do not currently have a disability. It also includes individuals who do not have a disability but are regarded as having a disability"
Http://adata.org/faq/what-definition-disability-under-ada
The politics of disability can be better understood by examining different "models" (approaches blended with basic assumptions) of difference, disability, and illness.1
Each model has ways of interpreting and contextualizing issues faced by many different, disabled, and ill people like alienation, discrimination, role accomodation, poverty, suffering, and chronicity.