Resources

Note: I rarely update these. If you know of resources, please email me and I will add them when I can. Thanks.

 

Disability Specific:

In pretty random order.

Web

Mia Mingus’ Changing the Framework: Disability Justice How our communities can move beyond access to wholeness

Loree Erickson

Disability Studies Quarterly

Canadian Journal of Disability Studies

Disabled People Against the Cuts (UK)

Crip Chick

The Other Side of Dreaming

Leaving Evidence

G.I.M.P. Boot Camp Video

The Disability Social History Project

A Queer and TransFat Activist Timeline

Ouch Podcast

Ragged Edge

Disability in the Media

Code of the Freaks – Disability in Film

Stop Shrinks

Speaking Differently

Heart Failure: Diary of a Third Year Medical Student

A Legal Guide For Activists With Physical Disabilities and Health Issues

Disability Justice Activists Look at Ways to Maintain Ablism and Counter How Our Bodies Experience Trauma in the Medical-Industrial Complex

Psych Survivors and People with Mental Health Issues and the Law

Disability Scoop

Here Be Dragons

People Who sit In The Disability Seats When I’m Standing On My Crutches

Colin Philips’ Independence, Community and Empowerment conference presentation

Books:

Disability Politics and Theory A.J. Withers

Exile And Pride: Disability, Queerness And Liberation Eli Clare

The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames

Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability Paul K. Longmore

From Abrotion to Reproductive Freedom Transforming a Movement Ed. Marlene Gerger Fried

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability Robert McRuer

Exploding the Gene Myth Ruth Hubbard and Elija

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide Robert Jay Lifton

Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract: A Warning From an Uppity Crip Marta Russell

From Asylum to Welfare Harvey G. Simmons

Shrink Resistant: the struggle against psychiatry in Canada Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz eds

Upstairs in the Crazy House Pat Capponi

Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto

Eugenics Archive

“The Other Side” Radio Show

Truth Not Tasers

Organizations Disability Specific:

Ethno-Racial People with Disabilities Coalition of Ontario (ERDCO)ADAPT (U.S.)
D.A.N. (Disabled people’s Direct Action Network) (U.K.)
Sins Invalid (U.S)
Disabled Women’s Network Ontario (DAWN)
Mad Student Society

 

Send me your groups, this list is pathetic!

Take Action, check out these groups:

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (Toronto)
Idle No More (Turtle Island)
No One Is Illegal (Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa)
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (Toronto)
Black Lives Matter
Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Group
DRUM (New York)
Take Back the Land (US)