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Publishes peer-reviewed original articles that advance research in the multidisciplinary, international field of disability studies. Foregrounds a critical disability studies perspective, committed to disability rights.

Bilingual, interdisciplinary journal, publishing articles that focus on experiences of disability from a critical perspective.

Committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society.

Hart Club is an organisation founded in 2018 dedicated to championing neurodiversity in the Arts. It started as a gallery and journal to platform the work of artists that so often go unseen due to the exclusionary structures that shape the art world.

Peer-reviewed journal focusing on the issues of disabilities, the rights of people with disabilities, and efforts to promote an all-inclusive society.

Focuses on cultural and especially literary representations of disability.

Number one, says Eliza Chandler of Tangled Art + Disability: recognize that disabled people aren't just audiences—they are artists, too.

Guided by five main tenets, Papalia’s Open Access approach moves beyond conventional concerns related to access—that buildings can be entered via wheelchair, for example—and instead proposes a rethinking of the terms on which all of us care for and coexist with one another. It’s not a checklist that can be swiftly ticked off, or a set of demands that can be enforced from the top down. Instead, Open Access needs to be embodied, integrated at all institutional levels and constantly negotiated.

"This research introduces ‘hope labor’ as a motivation for voluntary online social production, defined here as ‘un- or under-compensated work carried out in the present, often for experience or exposure, in the hope that future employment opportunities may follow’. Drawing from interviews with SB Nation sports bloggers and Yelp consumer reviewers, this research expands current understandings of the motivations behind online social production. Structurally, we distinguish hope labor from other forms of free labor by emphasizing the temporal relationship between present and future work—a relationship that shifts costs and risks onto the individual. Hope labor is naturalized and normalized through neoliberal ideologies. It is seen as an investment that pays off for individuals based on merit, despite its deleterious impact on employment prospects in desired industries. Our theorization of hope labor can be seen as a complement or corrective to celebratory accounts of meaning making, creativity, and community in online social production."--provided by publisher

"This paper aims to explore how (in)visibility is constructed and deployed in the construction of normalcy by using an intersectional approach to queer and disabled experiences. In the frist part, the focus is on able-bodiedness and heteronormativity as similar systems of compulsion in the production and the definition of normalcy. In the second part, the challenges posed to the presumptions of systems of compulsion are discussed: inhabiting a grey zone of indefinite readability, these cases subvert common assumptions on visibility and embody the possibility of framing invisibility as a political choice. In the third part, the figure of the acousmatic subject is presented: a subject that produces voices from a position of invisibility, challenging the idea of passivity often connected to oppression and marginalisation. The final aim is to critically discuss some of the issues connected to (in)visibility and to overcome its limits through expansion towards a more encompassing metaphorical figuration."--provided by publisher

Abolition and Disability Justice Coalition (ADJ) explores alternatives to policing based in disability justice. As well as information about disability justice and abolition the website also includes archived online roundtable talks, an ASL translation of their guiding principles, shareable zines, a glossary, and a resources guide.

The Body Is Not An Apology (TBINAA) is an international movement founded by Sonya Renee Taylor, committed to cultivating global Radical Self Love and Body Empowerment. TBINAA believes that discrimination, social inequality, and injustice are manifestations of our inability to make peace with the body, our own and others. Through information dissemination, personal and social transformation projects and community building, The Body is Not An Apology fosters global, radical, unapologetic self love which translates to radical human love and action in service toward a more just, equitable and compassionate world. --from /about

This online and on-going resource is part of a community-based research project by BFA, Disability Artist Taryn Goodwin (she/her) addressing ways to break down the isolation of learning, community and skill-sharing outside of faculties, departments, and universities to get to know other Disability artists, designers, and educators through the Social Model of Disability.

This non-exhaustive reading list highlights some of the key debates and conceptual shifts in disability studies.

Includes downloadable PDFs on Dr. Nick Walker's work around autism, neuroqueering and self liberation.

Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Led by disabled people of color, Sins Invalid’s performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body, developing provocative work where paradigms of “normal” and “sexy” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all bodies and communities. --from sinsinvalid.org/mission