This resource list was created to aid the Tisch community in engaging with disability and accessibility advocacy. Prioritization was given to intersectional, experiential, and artist driven works and organizations.
RESOURCES AT NYU
- NYU Student Disability Union
- NYU Center for Disability Studies
- NYU Disabilities, Inclusion and Accessibility Working Group (DIA) – Working to advance inclusion for all
- NYU Moses Center for Student Accessibility
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- National Disability Institute
- Center for Accessible Technology
- Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)
- American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)
- Gallaudet Deaf and Disability Organizations and Schools
- Disability Rights Education and Defence Fund
- American Association of People with Disabilities
- Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
- National Disability Rights Network
- National Association of the Deaf
- National Alliance of Multicultural Disabled Advocates (NAMD Advocates)
- American Foundation for the Blind
- GADIM - Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network
- Autistic Women and Non-binary Network
- Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities (HEARD)
- Health Justice Commons
SUGGESTED MEDIA
Films
- CripCamp (Nicole Newnham, James Lebrecht) - Netflix
- When I Walk (Jason DaSilva) - Prime Video
- When We Walk (Jason DaSilva) - Streaming Soon
- Out of My Head (Jacki Ochs, Susanna Styron) - Available to rent
- Far from the Tree (Rachel Dretzin) - Hulu
- Margarita with a Straw (Shonali Bose) - Hulu
Television
- Undone (Kate Purdy, Raphael Bob-Waksberg) - Prime Video
- Switched at Birth (Lizzy Weiss) - FreeForm
- Speechless (Scott Silveri) - Hulu
Videos
- Casual Ableist Language [CC]
- Disabled Person OR Person With a Disability?[CC]
- Leroy F. Moore, Jr. – Black Disabled Art History 101
- "How Access Really Happens: Disability, Technology, and Design Thinking," Josh Miele
- In My Language
- Not Special Needs
- Crip Bits
Podcasts
- Disability Matters
- Xceptional Leaders
- Disarming Disability
- Pigeonhole Podcast
- The Accessible Stall
- “Disability Visibility” with Alice Wong
- “Access Champions” podcast, with Phillip Dallman
- Contra* podcast — Mapping Access
WEB BASED RESOURCES
- Axs Lab
- The Arc
- Disability Justice Culture Club
- Virtual Museum of disABILITY
- Accessibility Mapping Resource: axsmap.com
- Arts for All Abilities Consortium
- Disability Justice — Project LETS
- The Harriet Tubman Collective A Collective of Black Deaf & Disabled Organizers
- Sins Invalid -Disability Justice Based Performance Project Centralizing Artists of Color and LGBTQ Artists
PEOPLE TO FOLLOW
Blogs
- Dustin P Gibson - Community Builder and artist focusing on the nexus of Race, Class and Disability
- Words I Wheel By - Emily Ladau - Writer, Speaker, and Disability Rights Activist
- Krip Hop Nation
- Rooted in Rights - the intersection of disability rights, Black, and Queer liberation
- GRETABILITY – finding ability in disability
- ROSARY SOLIMANTO – Interdisciplinary Activist Artist
- Talila A. Lewis - Blog
- Mia Mingus’s blog
- https://eliclare.com/what-eli-offers/lectures/lessons Trans+LGB Disability Justice
Social Media
- Imani Barbarin @Imani_Barbarin
- Chancey Fleet @ChanceyFleet
- Judy Heumann @judithheumann
- Alice Wong @SFdirewolf , @DisVisibility
- Annie Segarra @annieelainey
- Keri Gray @keri_gray
- Justice Shorter @JusticeShorter1
- D'Arcy Neal @DrChairington
- Kings Floyd @kings_floyd
- Andrew Pulrang @AndrewPulrang
- Maria Town @maria_town
- Lorie Novak @migraineregister
HASHTAGS TO FOLLOW
- #AbleismExists Highlights the everyday ableist experiences of people with disabilities.
- #AccessIsLove The hashtag that coincides with the Access is Love campaign, which aims to help build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love.
- #ActuallyAutistic Highlights the voices and experiences of people who identify as autistic.
- #CripTheVote A nonpartisan campaign to engage both voters and politicians in a productive discussion about disability issues in the United States.
- #DisabilityTooWhite Focused on meaningful conversations about race and intersectionality in the disability community.
- #InaccessibilityMeans Addresses the social, cultural, emotional, and physical issues caused by inaccessible spaces and systems.
- #ThingsDisabledPeopleKnow Highlights the realities of the disability experience.
ARTICLES TO READ
- Howling at the moon: Six interviews with artists who redefine illness and disability | Medium
- I'm in a Wheelchair, and This Is What It Meant to See Someone Like Me in a Fashion Ad, Disability | New York Times
- Black Disabled Lives Matter: We Can't Erase Disability in #BLM | Teen Vogue
- Target, Don’t Tell Me You ‘Stand With Black Families’| New York Times
- The Madwoman in the Academy, or, Revealing the Invisible Straightjacket: Theorizing and Teaching Saneism and Sane Privilege | Disability Studies Quarterly
- Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and A Practice | Recess & Common Field
- Don't Mourn for Us | Autreat.com
- Angry About The White Lesbians Suing For Having A Black Child? You're Missing Something | BGD Blog
BOOKS TO READ
- Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
- Being Heumann by Judith Heumann
- Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation and Liberation by Eli Claire
- Criptiques edited by Caitlin Wood
- Good Kings, Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaun
- Claiming Disability by Simi Linton
- One Little Finger by Malini Chib
- CARE WORK: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People by Sins Invalid
- Black Disabled Art History 101 by Leroy Moore Jr
- Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
- Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection by Anne Finger
- The Right Way to be Crippled & Naked: The Fiction of Disability edited by Sheila Black, Michael Northen & Annabelle Hayse
- Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, Sheila Black edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Fiona Black, Michael Northen
- The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown
- All the Weight of our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism by Autism Women's Network edited by Lydia X. Z. Brown, E. Ashkenazy, Morénike Giwa Onawiu