Disability has long been framed as an individualized, bio-medical deficit in need of remediation, control, or erasure. Dominant definitions have deferred to the “expert knows best” over the person themselves. These framings originated from medicalized perspectives that approached illness or impairment as a problem to be solved. In educational spaces, special education classes for students … Read More
How do we reckon with and repair the injustices of institutionalizing disabled people? Haunted house attractions, exclusive housing estates, and abandoned buildings are some of the common afterlives of disability institutions … justice and reparations are not. However, there is increasing momentum at the international human rights and local community levels for truth-telling and reparations … Read More
How can histories of violence be narrated? What can be done to produce more critical, complex, and nuanced pictures that attend not simply to the individual experience of victimization, but might … Read More