Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/School of Social Transformation/Policy Advocacy and Disability (Spring)

This description comes from our syllabus:

This seminar focuses on social policy and critical advocacy as it relates to disability culture, rights and justice. We focus on state, national, and international discourses around disability-related policies, rights, social movements and advocacy/activism. Topics include ableism and intersectionality, socio-cultural issues and education, critiques of curative discourse, Deaf culture, human-animal bond, invisible disabilities, debates about assistive technologies, and the critical issue of decarcerating disability. The disability rights theme, “nothing about us without us” and more recent writing on disability justice frame the course.

Much of our seminar will be spent discussing readings, current policy issues, and questions such as “What are major issues in disability rights movements?,” “How might histories of disability culture and rights inform current debates?,” “What tactics and strategies do disability activists and social movements employ?,” and “What might it mean to decarcerate disability?” Class meetings will offer a balance of theory, application, and concrete strategies for advocacy. Guest speakers, including grassroots advocates and disability rights experts, will help us link the readings with local issues, ableism, and disability activism.

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