Ableism Companion Site

A Word on Language

• Dancer Jerron Herman: 'Disabled, It's Not a Dirty Word'

• A Conversation about Disability and Language with Julie Petty

The Social Model

• The Social Model of Disability

The Medical Model

• The Canadian Encyclopedia: Ableism

• Boston Congress Public Health Review (formerly Harvard Public Health Review)

The Disability Justice Model

• Embracing Disability with Pride

• Intersections of Disability Justice & Transformative Justice

Disability and Intersectionality

• Disability is intersectional ft. Keri Gray #DisabilityInclusion

Ableism and Systemic Violence

• Sterilization of Indigenous Women in Canada

• Eugenics Archive

• Backgrounder: What are Criminalization and Racial Profiling

• Mental Health, Disabilities & the Criminal Justice System

• Valerie Novack Discusses Environmental Racism

Intersectionality Beyond Ableism and Structural Violence

• New Worlds Disability Justice in Indigenous Ceremony TRAILER

• ‘Disabled people keep each other alive all the time’ says Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Organizing in a Pandemic: Disability Justice Wisdom

Ableism and Education

• Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education

• Ableism in the Academy

Scenarios

• Queen's University Accessibility Audit

• Video Accessibility Audit - Stauffer Library

Ableism and Employment Introduction

• Why inclusion in the workplace matters ft. disability activist, Maddy Ruvolo #DisabilityInclusion

• Duty to Accommodate: A General Process For Managers

• Reorienting society for people with disabilities ft. Dessa Cosma #DisabilityInclusion

¹ Lewis, Talila A. “Working Definition of Ableism - January 2022 Update.” TALILA A. LEWIS. https://www.talilalewis.com/blog/working-definition-of-ableism-january-2022-update.

² Dancer Jerron Herma: 'Disabled, It's Not a Dirty Word' | SEEN. Youtube. NowThis News, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDeQT8HVPzg&ab_channel=NowThisNews.

³ Liebowitz, Cara. “I Am Disabled: On Identity-First versus People-First Language.” The Body Is Not An Apology, March 12, 2015. https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/i-am-disabled-on-identity-first-versus-people-first-language/.

⁴ Ibid.

⁵ Morris, Stuart, Gail Fawcett, Laurent Brisebois, and Jeffrey Hughes. A demographic, employment and income profile of Canadians with disabilities aged 15 years and over, 2017. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada, November 28, 2018. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2018002-eng.htm. 

⁶ A Conversation about Disability and Language with Julie Petty. Youtube. Disability and Philanthropy Forum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPe87IjSalU&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=Disability%26PhilanthropyForum.

⁷ Lewis, Talila A. “Working Definition of Ableism - January 2022 Update.” TALILA A. LEWIS. https://www.talilalewis.com/blog/working-definition-of-ableism-january-2022-update.

⁸ Ibid.

⁹ Graham, Melissa. “The Invisible Backpack of Able-Bodied Privilege Checklist.” Sit Down, Fight Back, October 12, 2009. https://melissagraham.ca/2009/10/12/the-invisible-backpack-of-able-bodied-privilege-checklist/.

¹⁰ The Social Model of Disability. YouTube. WhizzKidsUK, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-rEnKcZ5w0&ab_channel=WhizzKidzUK.

¹¹ “What Is Disability?” Ontario Human Rights Commission. https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/policy-ableism-and-discrimination-based-disability/2-what-disability.

¹²  Loeppky, John. “Ableism.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, November 11, 2021. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ableism. 

¹³ “Eugenics and Disability.” Disability & Philanthropy Forum, March 22, 2022. https://disabilityphilanthropy.org/resource/eugenics-and-disability/. 

¹⁴ Appleman, Laura I. “Edition 30 – Hiding in Plain Sight: Public Health, Eugenics, and Covid-19.” HPHR Journal, August 12, 2022. https://bcphr.org/30-article-appleman/

¹⁵ “What Is Disability?” Ontario Human Rights Commission. 

¹⁶ "Introduction to Accessible Education." Ontario's Universities Accessible Campus. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/181128/dq181128a-eng.htmhttps://accessiblecampus.ca/tools-resources/educators-tool-kit/introduction%20-accessible-education/.

¹⁷ "What is Disability Justice?" Sins Invalid, June 16, 2020.
https://desis.osu.edu/seniorthesis/index.php/2021/09/26/what-is-disability-justice/

¹⁸ Embracing Disability with Pride. YouTube. Brut America, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI6MtltE8v4&ab_channel=BrutAmerica.

¹⁹ Intersections of Disability Justice and Transformative Justice. YouTube. Barnard Centre for Research on Women, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dKystkbHKQ&ab_channel=BarnardCenterforResearchonWomen.

²⁰ “Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later.” Columbia Law School, June 8, 2017. https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality-more-two-decades-later. 

²¹ Feder, Jill. “What Is Intersectionality?” Accessibility.com: Empowering digital accessibility for businesses, September 24, 2021. https://www.accessibility.com/blog/disability-language-intersectionality. 

²² “Canadian Survey on Disability, 2017.” Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. November 28, 2018. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/181128/dq181128a-eng.htm.

²³ “Housing vulnerabilities among Canadians with mental health-related disabilities.” Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. January 28, 2021.

²⁴ "The Visible Minority Population with Disability in Canada: Employment and Education." Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. December 3, 2020. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-627-m/11-627-m2020086-eng.htm.

²⁵ Disability is intersectional ft. Keri Gray #DisabilityInclusion. YouTube. Disability & Philanthropy Forum, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuO81byl_OA&ab_channel=Disability%26PhilanthropyForum.

²⁶ Kendi, Ibram X. “Ableism & Racism: Roots of the Same Tree: Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi.” Pushkin Industries, June 2021.
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/be-antiracist-with-ibram-x-kendi/ableism-racism-roots-of-the-same-tree.  

²⁷ Kresh-Nash, Isabelle. “Racism and Ableism.” AAPD, November 10, 2016.
https://www.aapd.com/racism-and-ableism/. 

²⁸ Pfeiffer, David. “Eugenics and Disability Discrimination.” Eugenics and Disability Discrimination | Independent Living Institute, 1994. https://www.independentliving.org/docs1/pfeiffe1.html. 

²⁹ Stote, Karen. “Sterilization of Indigenous Women in Canada.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, April 17, 2019. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sterilization-of-indigenous-women-in-canada. 

³⁰ “End Racial Profiling & the Criminalization of People of Color.” YWCA USA, April 19, 2018. https://www.ywca.org/advocacy/policy-priorities/racial-justice-and-civil-rights/. 

³¹ "Broken Record: The continued criminalization of mental health issues." Mental Health, Disabilities, & the Criminal Justice System. John Howard Society of Ontario, February 2021.          https://johnhoward.on.ca/research-topic/mental-health-disabilities-and-the-criminal-justice-system/. 

³² “History of Racism, Ableism, Eugenics and Marginalization.” College of Education and Human Development, Institute on Disabilities, April 29, 2021. https://disabilities.temple.edu/school-to-prison/training-1-part-2. 

³³ Kresh-Nash, Isabelle. “Racism and Ableism.” 

³⁴ Gambini, Bert. “Book Explores the Intersection of Slavery and Disability in the U.S.” University at Buffalo, February 15, 2022. https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2022/02/017.html. 

³⁵ Valerie Novack Discusses Environmental Racism. YouTube. Disability & Philanthropy Forum, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4nE0dGxeCE&ab_channel=Disability%26PhilanthropyForum.

³⁶ New Worlds Disability Justice in Indigenous Ceremony TRAILER. YouTube. Audrey Huntley, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6clNwNqFHk

³⁷ ‘Disabled People Keep Each Other Alive All the Time’ Says Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. YouTube. Washinton Post Live, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH2K735DIL0. 

³⁸ “Organizing in a Pandemic: Disability Justice Wisdom .” Episode. Irresistible (Fka Healing Justice Podcast), April 2020.

³⁹ Dolmage, Jay. Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017, 24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvr33d50

⁴⁰ Ibid, 44. 

⁴¹ Ibid, 45. 

⁴² Ibid, 24.

⁴³ Queen's University Accessibility Audit. YouTube. AMI: Accessible Media Inc, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2e71dwFBU4&ab_channel=AMI%3AAccessibleMediaInc.

⁴⁴ Video Accessibility Audit - Stauffer Library. YouTube. Accessibility Hub Queen's University, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGoGtK9SEMc&ab_channel=AccessibilityHubQueen%27sUniversity

⁴⁵ Why Inclusion in the Workplace Matters Ft. Disability Activist, Maddy Ruvolo #DisabilityJustice. YouTube. Disability & Philanthropy Forum, 2020.                                                                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kygK5shIDPY&ab_channel=Disability%26PhilanthropyForum.

⁴⁶ Schmidt, Leah. “What Is Disability Discrimination in the Workplace?” Canadian Equality Consulting, August 9, 2022. https://canadianequality.ca/disability-discrimination-in-the-workplace/. 

⁴⁷ Ibid. 

⁴⁸ Workplace accommodations for employed persons with disabilities aged 25 to 64 years, by sex. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada, December 3, 2019. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1310074901. 

⁴⁹ “Duty to Accommodate: A General Process For Managers.” Canada.ca. Government of Canada, November 4, 2011. https://www.canada.ca/en/government/publicservice/wellness-inclusion-diversity-public-service/diversity-inclusion-public-service/working-government-canada-duty-accommodate-right-non-discrimination/duty-accommodate-general-process-managers.html. 

⁵⁰ Reorienting Society for People with Disabilities Ft. Dessa Cosma #DisabilityInclusion. YouTube. Disability & Philanthropy Forum, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1g5z3bh02k&ab_channel=Disability%26PhilanthropyForum.