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Fascinating and informative history of disability in the United States, as a legal definition and a population. Particularly fascinating to learn how various native American cultures treated disabled people. and conceived of disability

Last November review: good, although concise disability history in the US (just under 200 pages). The book discusses how the US has shaped the narrative around disability. How policies & programs have been developed as the ideas around disability has changed. It‘s a very brief overview of different periods/movements in the US. Good for people interested in disability history & policy. #bookspin book

#bookspin list for March 2022: March is Women‘s History month as well as Developmental Disability Awareness month so I have put books with these areas in mind on my list. Not sure how much time there will be to read as grad school is wrapping up & a professor I‘m helping got accepted to present our research study from this past summer at INSAR (International Society for Autism Research). Exciting but we have a lot of coding to do by April.

Accessible and very brief at under 200 pages minus footnotes! Each chapter could be fleshed out into its own book, for better and for worse. Takes care to illuminate history using individual people‘s stories, using quotes when possible, beginning at the earliest written record of the land. Intersectional, focused on communities and movements, with a mildly sardonic tone that took for granted that the reader respects disabled people. I liked that.

Here‘s my #bookspinbingo list for January 2021. I‘m hoping that I can continue to work through my TBR and get some good reading done before the Spring semester starts.

As some of us are looking to 2021's reading challenges, it's a good time to remember to be intentional with integrating our shelves beyond the challenges that are specifically about diversity!

I have a huge hole in my reading of disability stories, so I'm planning to pick up this to start, while also integrating more fictionalized stories with disabled characters as well.

As always, recommendations are welcome!

#IntegrateYourShelf

This book attempted to cover a lot of material. I learned a lot. Some things I had known but overall there were a ton of ways to look at historical events from a different perspective.

I worked with Willowbrook “case clients” in my early 20‘s. They had special protections because of the atrocities at this #monsterhospital There are some stories I will never forget. I do not know the book I tagged, there are no books written about Willowbrook- but google has a lot of info. #timbittunes

A very accessible survey of the lives of people with disabilities across US history.

I loved this book. As a queer disabled woman, it was amazing and terrifying and humbling to see the history of people like me. All of the information was fascinating, and usually overlooked in discussions of civil rights. My only problem was that it was very short-- only 185 pages. It could have gone further in depth and longer. A wonderful book, though, and one every American should read.

They always get rid of the undesirables first.

Same as we do today! Kick the homeless, mentally ill, and disabled into other states to let them deal with the problem. Good to see we're keeping our traditional values. /sarcasm

OH MY GOD THIS. I use a cane a lot (I'm 26, for reference) and I hear shit like this CONSTANTLY. You're not welcome to my medical info, people!