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people with medical issues are not “putting a strain on the medical system”. that’s what the medical system is for. yes this includes people with substance use related medical issues and other people considered “undeserving” of help
“putting a strain on the medical system” = politicians
The thing about all the high functioning vs low functioning/masking vs non-masking disability discourse is that it isn't a case of not being believed and supported vs being believed and supported because basically none of us are being believed and supported. These terms are about how capable you are of making up for and coping with insufficient support and yes being better at this generally places you in a more privileged position than the disabled people who can't do it
Episode 3 of the Museum of Disability is now out, and this month we go back four thousand years to the time of the Old Babylonian Empire to look at disability in ancient Mesopotamia. Our object this month is a cylinder seal engraved with a presention scene including a depiction of disability, which we use to look at broader ideas of disability in 1800 BCE.
We're in the second month of our 12 part series showcasing objects from disability history. The aim of the project is to provide a unique museum experience for people who are disabled or chronically ill and so cannot easily make it to in-person museums.
This episode features a selection of letters you won't want to miss from the legendary French writer Colette and a close friend regarding her disability and experience with arthritis.
Announcing Episode 2 of the Museum of Disability series! Releasing early June on Youtube
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This episode features a selection of letters you won't want to miss from the legendary French writer Colette and a close friend regarding her disability and experience with arthritis.
Announcing Episode 2 of the Museum of Disability series! Releasing early June on Youtube
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This episode features a selection of letters you won't want to miss from the legendary French writer Colette and a close friend regarding her disability and experience with arthritis.
Lepers were not excluded to prevent contagion, any more than in 1657, 1 per cent of the population of Paris was confined merely to deliver the city from the "asocial". The gesture had a different dimension: it did not isolate strangers who had previously remained in visible, who until then had been ignored by force of habit. It altered the familiar cityscape by giving them new faces, strange, bizarre silhouettes that nobody recognised. Strangers were found in places where their presence had never previously been suspected: the process punctured the fabric of society, and undid the familiar. Through this gesture, something inside man was placed outside of himself, and pushed over the edge of our horizon. It is the gesture of confinement, in short, which created alienation.
Michel Foucault, History of Madness, translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa.
yes please i'd like a book list
Okay I should preface this by saying that I did my BA in Disability Studues in the US so my curriculum was very American-focused, therefore, most of these books are American-focused as well. Also, Disability Studues as a field is interdisciplinary which means it encompasses a wide range of fields (science, medicine, sociology, history, etc)—I'm trained as a historian so a few of these books will be disability history. I could actually do a whole list that's just books on disability history, but for now, the books on this list will be all different sectors of Disability Studies.
This is by no means an exhaustive list, but this list includes the books that I read as part of my BA + a few other books that are just personal favorites.
Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau
What Can a Body Do? by Sara Hendren
Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew
Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design by Beth Williamson
The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority by Rebecca Monteleone (Becca was one of my professors for my BA, she's an expert on everything disability and technology)
A Disability History of the United States by Kim Nielsen (Kim was another one of my undergrad professors; she's one of the world's leading experts on US disability history)
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (this book is open access—if you search the title on scholar.google.com you can find a free PDF of the whole book)
Staring by Rosemarie Garland-Thompson (another leading scholar in Disability Studies)
There are so many more books in the field of Disability Studies that I have yet to read; I could continually update this list. A great resource is the New Books Network Disability Studies podcast. Just search "new books network disability studies" wherever you get your podcasts—every episode is an interview with a different author who has published a book in the field of Disability Studies.
I wish that I had more on Disability Studies in other countries; it's something I'm actively searching for more and more. Disability Studies as an academic field has only been around for about 15 years so it's still a growing field.
People in wheelchairs surrounded and barricaded two city buses over the course of two days, demanding wheelchair lifts and chanting, "We wil
On the day after the Fourth of July in 1978, a group of young disabled people blocked two city buses at one of the busiest intersections in downtown Denver – to declare their right to live independently. The Gang of 19, as they'd be called, demanded that the city install wheelchair lifts on more than 200 newly-ordered buses, so they could ride public transit. The protest lasted some 24 hours. At night, some of the protesters got out of their wheelchairs and slept on the hard asphalt. It was an act of civil disobedience that got little attention at the time and has now been largely forgotten. But those people with disabilities secured wheelchair access on Denver buses and eventually helped spur a nationwide movement.
A note for readers: curb cuts were not common in the USA - or even required - until after the Americans with Disabilities Act became law in 1990. You might also be interested in the concept of the "curb cut effect"
incase you didn't know being ableist is inherently the most inhumane thing you can do.
the earliest evidence we have of human society is a healed femur. we have found remains of people of all ages who lived with disabilities that would've required constant care— in a time when we were nomadic hunter-gatherers dodging predatory megafauna. there are countless artifacts that reflect rudimentary splints and possibly even mobility aids.
we have been supporting our disabled community members since the dawn of humanity. to care for the sick and weak is to be human. there is no way around this.
it makes my bones deeply ache, our ancient ancestors used to love each other so dearly and deeply. hand prints on walls, making canes for physically disabled people. helping to their best abilities and knowledge at the time to take care of each others health. loving autistic people as who they are and not forcing them to change. elderly people were taken care of. disabled people were so loved and care for.
now elderly and disabled people are left to die in abusive surroundings and no one cares. autistic people are shunned and ostracized for being themselves.
there's billions of people on this planet and yet so little community.
Finally the discussion "Gen AI is for disabled people to do art" got to me. And I want to use it as an excuse to write about disabled artists.
In my opinion, art is preserved for disabled people. It's our place to be. We don't need a toxic tool to be both disabled and artists, we have always been here. Gen AI doesn't help disabled people to get included in the world that was closed from them otherwise. That's the point of disability accommodations: to help us be a part of the society.
And art itself is that accommodation! That's why art therapy is a thing, and that's why we have art made by intellectually disabled people, and that's why artists continued to paint while they were in the mental hospitals. The process of creation is the accomo that helps disabled people to be valued by society, to feel included, to earn their living.
So I'll start on my favorite disabled artist:
Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec
Toulouse-Lautrec was a French post-impressionist, and his art provides a unique perspective of life he had: he depicted people ugly in terms of conventional beauty, but the feeling, the dynamic of his works is rad.
Are you bothered with your second chin? Your big cheeks, your crooked legs? Don't you worry, Monsieur Toulouse-Lautrec would draw you a hundred times worse than you are and you would still look great.
Because humans are great. We can't do anything with it, we are social creatures, and for us other humans will always be the best company. There's nobody else who suits us better than other humans, who can get us, see us, love us and be loved by us.
Charisma and action is what makes Toulouse-Lautrec's characters amazing. You know how it's hard to caption a person's beauty in a static picture? You see them as the most gorgeous creature ever been on earth, but their photos don't show how charming they are. Because photography is too literal. That's why we need painting.
Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec was amazing draughtsman and printmaker. The modern art of posters and advertising owes him a lot. And I'd say that animation took a lot from him too.
Henry was a child of a very inbred family, which resulted in his disability. What we know for sure is that he got both legs broken at the age of 13-14, and it didn't heal properly. He broke femurs, or the thigh bones, the longest, the strongest and the thickest bones in the human body. His bones were really fragile.
His alleged diagnosis is either pycnodysostosis (Toulouse-Lautrec Syndrome), osteopetrosis, achondroplasia, or osteogenesis imperfecta. Because of his condition, Henry could not participate in the society as a proper aristocrat, the son his father Count Alphonse wanted him to be. Henry was an outcast of his own class, so he vibed with the lower class folks, like sex workers, washwomen, performers from Moulin Rouge. If he lived today, he would love drag queens and kings, I'm sure.
He died early, at the age of 36, but his art was the thing that made him a part of the community, an honorable man and a much more noticeable person than his aristocracy and money could have ever made him. And his disability was one of the reasons why Toulouse-Lautrec became the immortal artist known worldwide.
The Fight of Our Lives by David Levithan; Gabriel Duckels:
Award-winning author David Levithan and University of Cambridge PhD Gabriel Duckels detail a history of the epidemic, touching on key moments and figures. Threaded throughout are poems, essays, and first-person interviews to reminder us:
We must remember. We need to know what happened and why. Our voices are powerful, and they can make a difference. …
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reading through notes on a post and it geniuenly seems like some people think disability aids only started existing in the past 20 years
A Quiet Choice of Love: What an Ancient Burial Reveals About Compassion in Qing Dynasty China
History often records the spectacular triumphs of medicine and power. For generations people have shared the legend of an ancient Chinese medical procedure in the year 390 AD, where a surgeon purportedly performed a successful cleft lip repair on a patient who eventually rose to become a powerful Governor General. These stories of elite miracles and prominent historical figures easily capture the…
Centre for the reintegration of disabled children. Kigali. Rwanda. 2007
One of the advantages of working across multiple forms is that the throughline becomes clearer over time.
From research at the Library of Congress to theatre access and operational protocol, from my historical training at the University of Edinburgh to her absurdist observational writing, Kelsey Maurine Brickl remains interested in how institutions interpret evidence, narrate harm, and respond when abstract values are tested by concrete realities.
That question has shaped her work in history, disability and access writing, criticism, and screenwriting alike. She is especially interested in the point where administration, ethics, public narrative, and lived human experience converge, because that is often where institutional character becomes most visible.
Her work across these forms is gathered at kelseybrickl.com.
