Disability Pride Month
July is Disability Pride Month! This month marks the 35th anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), landmark legislation that broke down barriers to inclusion in society. To learn more about the history of disability rights and advocacy in the United States, visit UC Berkeley's collection of written and oral histories by disability advocates, compiled in the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Project.
Accessibility can be more than just physical! To learn more about and improve digital accessibility across campus, see BU's collection of learning resources compiled by the BU Office of Distance Education.
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Combatting Disability Harassment at Work: Human Rights in Practice
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Focuses on legal measures to combat disability harassment at work around the world. It sets disability harassment in its human rights context, and explores the capacity of the law to address intersectional harassment, particularly that faced by women with disabilities. -
Singlehandedly: Learning to Unhide and Embrace Connection
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Location: Pardee Stacks HV1568 .R38 2022Publication Date: 2022Ruth Rathblott was born with a limb difference. In her compelling and intimate memoir, she recounts the years she spent overachieving and trying to hide her disability before she learned to unhide. She takes us on a journey of discovering her difference and ultimately finding self-acceptance and connection with others. -
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Exploring the rich histories of the neurodiversity and disability movements, Robert Chapman shows how the rise of capitalism created an 'empire of normality' that transformed our understanding of the body into that of a productivity machine. This is an essential guide to understanding the systems that shape our very selves - and how we can undo them.
Books for Disability Pride
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Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Uncovers the harsh reality of people with disabilities in the United States who are forced to work in unethical conditions for subminimum wages with little or no opportunity to advocate for themselves, even as CEOs grow wealthier as a direct result. -
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). -
Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century
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Location: Online and Mugar / Alumni Medical / Howard Thurman HV1552.3 .D57 2020Publication Date: 2020An urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It celebrates and documents disability culture and looks to the future and the past with hope and love. -
Neurodiversity and Work: Employment, Identity, and Support Networks for Neurominorities
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024This interdisciplinary work explores how organizations can promote true inclusion for neurominorities, a large segment of the emerging workforce while underlining the difficulties as well as the strength-based characteristics faced by this population. -
Disability and Employment: Towards a Humanistic Economy
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024This book offers new knowledge on the intricate interplay between employment and disability. It provides a timely scholarly deliberation and presents policy solutions to tackle the persistently high unemployment among people with disabilities. -
The Neurodiversity Edge: The Essential Guide to Embracing Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Differences for Any Organization
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Location: Innovation Center HV3005 .D84 2024Publication Date: 2024This indispensable guide is based on more than two decades of immersive cognitive science research, case studies, stories from neurodivergent voices, in-the-trenches work with hundreds of organizations from start-ups to global Fortune 500 titans, and Dr. Dunne's own lived experiences as a neurodivergent employer, entrepreneur, board member, and CEO.
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