Video

Disabled Women: Visions and Voices from the 4th World Conference on Women

Conferences

DISABILITY HISTORY: THEORY AND PRACTICE: San Francisco State University's Institute on Disability, the Disability History Association, and the Disability History Group of the United Kingdom invite submissions for papers to be given at a conference at San Francisco State University, 31 July through 3 August 2008.

Exhibitions

Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember: Until July 13, 2008 - Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember explores the history of disabled people in Canada. A display of thirteen diverse objects reveals a rich and nuanced story that pays tribute to the resilience, creativity, and the civic and cultural contributions of Canadians with disabilities.

Interesting Stuff on the Web

Seeing Beyond Sight, by Tony Deifell — photographs by blind teenagers — "What are you thinking, teaching photography to blind people?"

Images of Disability — The aim of Images of Disability is for disabled people to be included in UK advertising and publicity in the same way that people of various ages, races and genders are.

Observe But Do Not Interfere— "Home to Arguably the Most Controversial Deaf Blogger in America" - Ricky D Taylor's long, almost daily posts on politics in the deaf community and elsewhere.

Ouch! ...it's a disability thing — Actor Mat Fraser and comedian Liz Carr now have a podcast of their monthly disability talk show.

Deaf 24/7 — Internet resource for all British Sign Language and deafness related information.

In Touch — A BBC Radio series with journalist Peter White - News, views and information for people who are blind or partially-sighted.

IN TOUCH WITH KNOWLEDGE: The Educational History of Blind People

Books and Articles on Disability History

Faces of War, Smithsonian Magazine, February 2007 – Wounded tommies facetiously called it "The Tin Noses Shop." Located within the 3rd London General Hospital, its proper name was the "Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department"; either way, it represented one of the many acts of desperate improvisation borne of the Great War, which had overwhelmed all conventional strategies for dealing with trauma to body, mind and soul.

Make them go away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and The Case Against Disability Rights by Mary Johnson, Advocado Press, 2003

Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability by Paul Longmore, Temple Press, 2003

Silence is a four-letter word: On art and deafness by Raymond Luczak, The Tactile Mind Press, 2003

"The Political Economy of Disablement: Advances and Contradictions," by Marta Russell and Ravi Malhotra, from the Socialist Register 2002

The New Disability History : American Perspectives (History of Disability) by Paul Longmore and Lauri Umanksy (eds.)

The Disability Rights Movement : From Charity to Confrontation by Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames

Events

Disability Projects on the Web

Education for Disability and Gender Equity, a high school curriculum incorporating disability and gender issues into humanities and science

THE CHAIR: Holocaust Memorial to Disabled People