The following resources have been recommended or shared by the AE community of providers and do not necessarily reflect the views of Multnomah County.
- “A Shared Struggle for Equality: Disability Rights and Racial Justice” describes the close history between the Civil Rights movement and the Disability Rights movement.
- “‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: 16 Moments in the Fight for Disability Rights” shares many pivotal moments in the fight for Disability justice in the United States.
- Black Disability Justice Syllabus by Sins Invalid provides a robust list of resources to “honor the legacies of Black disabled artists, thinkers, activists, and leaders and a tool for future work.”
- OSU Disability Archives: Disability History in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center: Oregon's Disabled Community Histories led by Oregon State University Professor Natalia Fernandez shares archival resources for the disability community in Oregon and Corvallis.
- Regarding person-first and identity-first language: The Significance of Semantics: Person-First Language: Why It Matters provides a list of citations to folks who use person-first language, identity-first language, and those who use both interchangeably at the bottom of their blog. On “Person-First Language”: It’s Time to Actually Put the Person First adds extra nuance to this conversation and explains how language has changed.
- “How Donald Trump Inadvertently Sparked a New Disability Rights Movement” in TIME Magazine, profiles the work of activists and their resistance to proposed policies that harm the disabled community.
- "Let's Play Ableism Bingo!": A tool, reflections, and resource list from Fakequity guest blogger Carrie Griffin Basas: "Catching people, including yourself, in violations of this card should be an opening, not a closing or judgment. Truth be told, you could catch me in violations of this card at different moments. And I just might have spilled my single-origin hemp latte on the entitlement bingo card. Just because I have a disability does not mean that I do right by all people with disabilities all of the time, whatever my intent."
- Who am I to stop it? A documentary film on isolation, art, and transformation after brain injury: “We’re making this film to explore the role art plays in many people’s lives for connecting communities, bringing peace and peace of mind, engaging in work, and, in the case of our subjects, exploring their new lives after brain injury (TBI). It was important for us to make a film from within the community, and Co-Director Cheryl Green identifies as a peer with TBI.”
- Trauma Informed Workplace Accommodation: From Trauma Informed Oregon's newsletter: "What happens when the American Disabilities Act (ADA) and Trauma Informed Care (TIC) meet? Kelly Myers, Graduate Research Assistant at TIO, shares some insight around how to make workplace ADA accommodations trauma informed especially when the dis/ability doesn't have outward symptoms."
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- What You're Saying When You Say "I Don't Need a Mic": This piece shares perspectives from the Unitarian Universalist Association that are important within and outside of faith-specific settings. "Failing to use a microphone, in other words, is a form of exclusion. 'When I'm excluded,' our anonymous leader continues, 'I feel weary, frustrated, and invisible. It's as though I'm on the other side of a plate glass window from the room where almost everyone else is, and they don't even notice that I'm stuck outside of their conversation.'"
- I'm Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much - a humorous and heartfelt TED Talk from Stella Young, a comedian and journalist who explains why she believes "Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does."