Though grateful for the work by organizers and advocates who pushed for the ADA, multiply-disabled philosopher Ashley Shew expresses that the work towards full civil rights for disabled people is far from over. Continue Reading Passed, but Not Enacted: The Law is Not the Power
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There are No Infirmities: Disability in Post-ADA Media
In identifying disability as a category of legally protected civil rights, the ADA assert the rights of disabled people as consumers and workers. Disability’s presence within commercial media—especially tech ads—Bess Williamson argues, inadvertently erased disability as an identity category almost as soon as it appeared. Continue Reading There are No Infirmities: Disability in Post-ADA Media