#DisabilityPrideMonth history lesson! 📚 ♿

Did you know the 504 Sit-In for #disabilityrights took place outside ERA's former San Francisco office ❓❓

Led by Judy Heumann, Kitty Cone & strongly supported by the Black Panthers, the sit-in spread nationally & helped change federal law.

#AccessIsLove #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityAdvocate #DisabilityAwareness #DisabilityIsNotInability #DisabilityJustice #DisabledQueer #DisabledLGBT #DisabilityHistory #DisabilityPride #DisabilityCommunity

Friendly reminder that Helen Keller was a socialist through most of her life #HelenKeller #Socialism #History #DisabilitlyRights #DisabilityHistory

'As a black person with a learning disability, I’ve often wondered where I might fit as an activist.

'The lives and experiences of black British people like me are under‐represented in the UK history of learning disabilities.'

Great words from campaigner and self-advocate Paul Christian, shining a much-needed light.

#blackhistory #disabilityhistory #learningdisability

https://twitter.com/CommLivingMag_/status/1638499088344784897

Check the episode out on my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/xsUybDVVbTQ. Please remember to subscribe to my channel, and turn on your notifications! Thank you everyone!

#alwayslookingup #podcast #dwarfismawareness #dwarfism #disabilityadvocate #disabilityawareness #disabilityrights #disabilityrepresentation #disabilityhistory #disabilityjustice #representationmatters #disability #disabilitypride #accomplice #allyship #intersectionality #activist #activism #journalism #disabilitynews

Today's research read 📚

Not surprised to find that for centuries the philosophical discourse around #blindness was mostly a bunch of sighted men talking to other sighted men about what it means to be blind 🙄

#DisabilityHistory

Als ich mich dann vor zwei Jahren auf das #CPACC vorbereitete, habe ich mir nebenbei ihre Memoiren "#BeingHeumann" angehört. Ein sehr wertvolles Werk über #DisabilityHistory und eine bedeutende Persönlichkeit. Danke für alles, Judy, Rest in Power!

Queer Dis-eases: Disruptive Histories, Politics, and Bodies @EUI_EU

Application deadline: 31st January

[https://gender.eui.eu/activities/lgbtiq-interdisciplinary-working-group/]

#CripTheory #QueerTheory #GenderStudies #FeministStudies #DisabilityHistory

This book, "Blind in Early Modern Japan", may be of interest to followers who like #DisabilityHistory. Reading the synopsis, it seems being blind wasn't too bad back then. If you have a qualifying reading disability, you can get it on Bookshare. https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/4884158?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPWJsaW5kJTJCaW4lMkJlYXJseSUyQm1vZGVybiUyQmphcGFu

We are very excited to announce the publication of Betty's story https://afewforgottenwomen.wixsite.com/affw/post/betty-s-story-a-new-forgotten-woman-is-remembered #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Woman'sHistory #DisabilityHistory #SocialHistory

With #DisabilityHistoryMonth ending today, a reminder of our project focus on #DisabilityHistory - and that this is a topic we're interested in year-round!

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RT @RWLDproject@twitter.com

'I do not think that this disability had any bearing on the accident.'

#ICYMI our current blog post relates to #DisabilityHistoryMonth.

We look at John Duncan's sight loss & his subsequent accident at #Thornton in #Scotland in 1930:

https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/seeing-disability-in-our-database/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RWLDproject/status/1603359659758391298

We welcome guest blogs on past railway staff disabilities, in relation to safety & accidents, so please get in touch with your ideas!

For all our project #DisabilityHistory blog posts so far, have a look at:

https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/category/disability/

#DisabilityHistoryMonth

Being super lazy (battling deadlines!), here's a handy compliation of blog posts touching on #DisabilityHistory from a couple of years ago - though we've done an awful lot more since then, of course:

https://twitter.com/RWLDproject/status/1198546298904989696?s=20

#DisabilityHistoryMonth

Call: Disability in the Vast Early Americas, https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/11919311/disability-vast-early-americas

#DisabilityHistory #CFP #Histodons #EarlyAmerica

HT @jackiantonovich

#DisabilityHistoryMonth

Arthur Pew was a lance corporal in WW1, trusted with responsibility for his fellow men.

Pew also had a learning disability.

Before signing up, he was regarded as incapable of contributing to society and was segregated in an institution.

This is an old piece for @BylineTimes but one I loved writing with brilliant campaigners at UK charity My Life My Choice.

#inclusion #disabilityhistory #learningdisability #journalism #research

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/12/16/last-in-line-the-forgotten-learning-disabled-soldiers-of-world-war-one/

RT @packrat74@twitter.com

@RWLDproject@twitter.com #AncestryHour My top tips for researching #DisabilityHistory:
1. Know/Learn what records might have clues
2. Read the instructions if possible; learn about the records so you know the significance.
3. Read the entire record so you don't miss clues.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/packrat74/status/1595132033906319360

And as we've mentioned #DisabilityHistoryMonth during #AncestryHour, needless to say #DisabilityHistory features in our project work!

Our current blog posts pay particular attention to disability in our free database of accidents to railway workers:

https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/work-caused-disability-frederick-potter-portsmouth/

Hi #AncestryHour, hope all are well?

It's #DisabilityHistoryMonth in the UK at the moment, so we're interested: how many of you have found disability in your #familyhistory

Any top tips for researching #DisabilityHistory to share?

RT @StefanieHuntKe1
Looked what arrived in the mail today! So excited to read Esme Cleall’s newest book. #DisabilityTwitter #disabilityhistory #dishist #disabilitystudies

#LibrarianAtWork

A thread of new/recent/forthcoming #book releases focusing on #Disability related titles

New paperback edition:

Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History by Jaipreet Virdi (@jaivirdi)

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo48885494.html

#BookStodon #librarian #libraries #NewReleases #Deaf #DeafHistory #DisabilityHistory #DisabilityVisibility #memoir #DisabilityStudies