Disability Justice and Mutual Aid Pedagogy or: How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Teach Later On
We don’t want to teach students to work themselves to death over a dollar in someone else’s pocket.
The Future is Another Country
We don’t want to teach students to work themselves to death over a dollar in someone else’s pocket.
The irony of placing a reminder of disability history in a stairwell does not escape me nor does it surprise me.
Their stories enrich and expand our understanding of both disability and civil rights activism—not as an afterthought or appendage, but as integral to both.
If critical disability studies is to replace our traditional analyses and modes of intervention, then we must continue to approach dis/ability within the broader matrix of colonization, questioning and challenging the ways in which dominant power relations recognize, regulate, and govern our lifeways.
As we write catalog entries to gather these artifacts into an exhibit and then interpret the connections that will emerge in exhibition guide essays, we hope to raise questions for the audience, to allow those who are disabled to see themselves in the story.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our October 2019 issue, “Burning Borders: Disability Brought to Bear.”
As part of our special issue on “education” for the month of August, The Activist History Review would like to introduce a multi-part series on the experiences of academics from marginalized communities.