Summer Roundup: Inhabitable Worlds, Part One by Deanna Day
Continuing our summer roundups, today we are highlighting a first set of essays from our Inhabitable Worlds series, brought to us by editors Michele Friedner and Emily Cohen.…
Continuing our summer roundups, today we are highlighting a first set of essays from our Inhabitable Worlds series, brought to us by editors Michele Friedner and Emily Cohen.…
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Elizabeth Lewis, who is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Texas at…
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon Pastor Peter Ngoma leads the Easter service for members of the International Federation of People with Albanism and Blindness (IFPAB) on the theme of Revelation |…
Loneliness and Its Opposite: Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement by Don Kulick and Jens Rydström Duke University Press, 2015, 376 pages Access to opportunities for the…
Despite increasingly widespread attention to disability rights, disability outcomes in the United States remain shockingly divided by race. Few people realize that having a disability today is literal…
Gwaltney, John L. 1967. The Thrice Shy: Cultural Accommodation to Blindness and Other Disasters in a Mexican Community. New York and London: Columbia University Press. 219 pp., including…
Vakas is a Russian man in his 30s with a traumatic brain injury acquired during childhood. He spends most of his days in his room in his family…
I have a confession: there are many days when I wish I was anything but a disability researcher. I think wistfully to my high school aspirations of becoming…
Here is a curated collection of last week’s disability news. Enjoy! History: “Laura’s World” (Louis Menand) New Yorker feature story on Laura Bridgman, the first deafblind chil…
This is the second installment in a two-part series about siblings and disability. The first part can be found here. What does Disability Mean for Typical Siblings? First…
I am an anthropologist researching postwar revival and development in Lao PDR (Laos), the most cluster-bombed country in the world (Branfman 2013). Through fieldwork with development organizations an…
Here are some of the disability news features that I found most interesting from the past week. Please send other suggestions my way! Disability and Race “Claim: Minorities…
Disrupting Assumptions and Digging Deeper Growing up with a sister who had CHARGE syndrome and was deafblind, there were many times when I felt alone in my experience.…