These selected resources are meant to serve as a starting point for learning more about disability justice. Please feel free to browse them in order to find ones that are suitable for your learning style and the amount of time you have to spend.
Instagram Accounts
@DiversAbility: “Elevating disability pride, together, to change how the world perceives disability. WOC-led & 100% disability-run.”
WOC stands for Women of Color.
@HealthJusticeCommons “HJC is a movement-building project with a deep commitment to Disability Justice and an abolitionist approach to the Medical Industrial Complex.”
@Higher_Priestess A disabled autonomist and abolitionist advocating for intersectional disability justice.
@KeepSJSUHybrid A student-led, SJSU based movement that centers disability justice. It prioritizes the safety of students, staff, and their extended communities by demanding as many courses as possible be moved to an online format utilizing hybrid/HyFlex instruction.
@ProjectLets “We build radical peer support collectives + provide political education & advocacy services. By/for mad, mentally ill, Disabled, neurodivergent folks.”
Podcasts
Disability After Dark hosted by Andrew Gurza is “like sitting down with a really close friend to have real conversations about disability, sexuality and everything else about the disability experience that we don’t talk about; the things about being disabled we keep in the dark.”
Disability Matters with Joyce Bender “focuses on the employment and empowerment of people with disabilities.”
Disability Visibility hosted by Alice Wong discusses life “from a disabled lens” and features “conversations on politics, culture, and media with disabled people.”
Enabled Disabled Podcast hosted by Gustavo Serafini was “created to shift the narrative around disability.”
The Accessible Stall hosted by Kyle Khachadurian and Emily Ladau is a disability podcast that “keeps it real about issues within the disability community.”
Videos/Films
Crip Camp, also available for free on YouTube, is a political documentary (rated R) about how a “groundbreaking summer camp galvanizes a group of teens with disabilities to help build a movement, forging a new path toward greater equality.”
Books
Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People by Sins Invalid (2nd edition) is considered a disability justice primer.
$7 for digital download, which is compatible with screen readers.
$21 plus shipping for physical copy.
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay Timothy Dolmage “brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education.”
Free electronic access is provided via the publisher, Kindle, JSTOR, and other electronic formats.
Free audio download is provided via the publisher, although it is necessary to click ‘add to cart’ and complete the checkout process. This involves providing your email and mailing address in order to receive the free download. It is available as an iTunes audiobook or an MP3 zip file.
Physical copies are available for purchase beginning at $24.95.