The New History of Disability: The Disability Poetics Movement
The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law in 1990. For many, it mostly goes unnoticed. Handicap parking spaces are at worst vague nuisances to some. Entry ramps for stairwells are mostly...
View ArticleAbleism: What it is and Why it Matters
Before one can really talk about disability and disability poetry, one needs a little background. Particularly, it helps to know some of the terms of the disabled world. These next two blog posts will...
View ArticleModels of Disability: How Society Views Impairment
In our last installment, we dealt with ableism- one manner in which the world at large interacts with persons who have disabilities. For this set of exposition, we’ll be looking at the way the world at...
View ArticleA Casual Count of Ableism in Poetry
I picked up a few books of poetry that caught my eye to read this summer- unrelated to this project, in fact. I figured though, as I was going through them, to keep track of the number of times that...
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