It’s not black and white, and it shouldn’t be red or blue, either. When I first started my position at the University of Illinois at Chicago back in 1997, I was a faculty member in a newly formed ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- In 1977, over 100 disabled activists occupied a federal building in San Francisco for nearly a month, demanding their civil rights be recognized. Today, that same spirit of resistance ...

Workplace stereotypes often place people with disabilities on either extreme of a very damaging spectrum—either they are considered incapable of performing their job responsibilities due to their ...

The University of Arizona Disability Cultural Center is one of the very few in the nation. A cultural center, as defined by the UA DCC, is a physical space that brings together students, faculty and ...

Support groups provide "counternarratives of empowerment," challenging societal norms and allowing individuals with MS to redefine their identities. The author critiques pharmaceutical representatives ...

At the grand opening of Connecticut College’s Disability Cultural Center on April 1, advocate and educator John Sharon ’86 recalled organizing Conn’s first Disability Awareness Week more than 40 years ...

In today’s diverse society, cultural understanding is no longer optional in healthcare—it’s essential. Nowhere is this more evident than in home care and disability services, where the most vulnerable ...

The University of Michigan Central Student Government unanimously passed Assembly Resolution 13-046 in favor of establishing a Disability Cultural Center on campus at the CSG meeting Tuesday evening.

What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...