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

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
A Kind of Spark
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
Hunchback
Out on a Limb (Out, #1)
You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! (Scholastic Gold)
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
Flowers for Algernon
I Hear the Sunspot, Vol. 1 (I Hear the Sunspot #1)

Most Read This Week

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
The Words in My Hands
Conditions of a Heart
Fighting for YES!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann
Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
Crip Theory by Robert McRuerDon't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by John CallahanTwirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed by Jeannie Davide-RiveraFeminist, Queer, Crip by Alison KaferIllness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
disability studies
200 books — 48 voters
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanV for Vendetta by Alan             MooreChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
477 books — 379 voters


Haben Girma
Somehow, someway, I'm going to create a community of people who believed that disability itself is not a barrier; the biggest barriers are social, physical, and digital. ...more
Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Rebecca Yarros
Would you not call yourself fragile?' 'I am who I am. ...more
Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

More quotes...
Inspired by Nicola Griffith's #CripLit twitter chat and the Fries test. The representation of pe…more
1 member, last active 8 years ago
Orlando Leadership Action Team- Intersectional Feminist Book Club This group is a place for the Orlando Leadership Action Team, or any Planned Parenthood supporte…more
6 members, last active 8 years ago
Worlds Beyond the Margins Celebrating Adult Fantasy, Scifi, and Horror books that promote diversity and inclusion. In al…more
2,112 members, last active 2 hours ago
The Pedantic Zebra Book Club Hi and welcome to The Pedantic Zebra. The quarterly book club (audio or text) where we learn alo…more
52 members, last active 5 months ago

Tags

Tags contributing to this page include: ableism and disablism