Ableism

Ableism (also known as ablism, disablism , anapirophobia, anapirism, and disability discrimination) is discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities or who are perceived to have disabilities. Ableism characterizes persons as defined by their disabilities and as inferior to the non-disabled. On this basis, people are assigned or denied certain perceived abilities, skills, or character orientations.

There are stereotypes associated with various disabilities. These stereotypes in turn serve as a justification for ableist practices and reinforce discriminatory attitudes and b ...more

Ableism Books

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! (Scholastic Gold)

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

I Hear the Sunspot, Vol. 1 (I Hear the Sunspot #1)

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Quotes Tagged “Ableism”

“ Systems of supremacy and domination ultimately imperil even those who, in many crucial respects, benefit from them. Racism, while it elevates whiteness, is weaponized to erode the welfare and wages that would enable white people to lead healthier, less precarious lives. Misogyny hurts men economically and emotionally, as gendered pay gaps suppress overall wages and through the trap of destructive and often violent standards of masculinity. Transphobia impacts everyone by imposing state-sponsored ...more ”
― Astra Taylor, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

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“ In turn, they began to argue that perhaps the problems they all experienced had less to do with their brains being brokem, and more to do with societal failure to accommodate their neurological differences. They thus started to argue for what one 1997 report from the New York Times described as a form of ‘neurological pluralism’. This emphasised the need for the behaviours and processing styles of atypical people to be accepted and supported rather than framed as medical pathologies to be contro ...more ”
― Robert Chapman, Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

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