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Social justice movement
quotations related to Disability justice. Disability justice is a social justice movement which focuses on examining disability and ableism as they relate
Disability_justice
Observance
Disability Pride Month occurs worldwide, usually in July. Disability Pride has evolved from a day of celebration to a month-long event. It originated in
Disability_Pride_Month
Impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions
Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given
Disability
American disability rights activist (1967–2025)
performance artist, director, and disability justice organizer. Berne was founding member of the disability justice movement and framework, and was the
Patricia_Berne
Liberal think tank in the United States
The Disability Justice Initiative became the first such project at a mainstream public policy advocacy organization not already focused on disability. The
Center_for_American_Progress
2020 essay collection edited by Alice Wong
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century is a 2020 anthology edited and curated by American disability justice advocate
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Disability_Visibility:_First-Person_Stories_from_the_Twenty-First_Century
Korean American writer and activist
who focuses on issues of disability justice. She is known for coining the term "access intimacy". She advocates for disability studies and activism to
Mia_Mingus
View of relationship of mind & body
bodies creates and perpetuates oppression. Wieseler notes that the disability justice movement is working to create a new rhetoric that reframes disabled
Bodymind_(disability_studies)
Type of sexual attraction
Attraction to disability is a sexualised interest in the appearance, sensation and experience of disability or sexual attraction toward disabled individuals
Attraction_to_disability
Prejudiced crime against disabled people
Disability hate crime is a hate crime which involves the use of violence against people with disabilities. This form of violence is not only violence
Disability_hate_crime
Discrimination on grounds of disability
ablism, disablism [in British English], anapirophobia, anapirism, and disability discrimination) is discrimination and social prejudice against disabled
Ableism
Analytic tools in disability studies
Models of disability are analytic tools in disability studies used to articulate different ways disability is conceptualized by individuals and society
Models_of_disability
Korean-American disability activist (1987–2020)
South Korean and American activist for disability justice, advocating for fair treatment of those with disability in the United States. She served on the
Stacey_Milbern
2018 book by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is a 2018 non-fiction essay collection by Canadian-American author and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Care_Work
A disability-rights activist or disability-rights advocate is someone who works towards the equality of people with disabilities. Such a person is generally
List of disability rights activists
List_of_disability_rights_activists
US federal insurance program for income to disabled workers
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a payroll tax-funded federal insurance program of the United States government. It is managed by the Social
Social Security Disability Insurance
Social_Security_Disability_Insurance
Societal failure to adapt to disabilities
The social model of disability proposes that people are disabled by systemic barriers, negative attitudes, and social exclusion, rather than by their own
Social_model_of_disability
Academic discipline examining the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability
Disability studies is an academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability. Initially, the field focused on the division
Disability_studies
American disability rights activist
Foundation. Prior to joining Ford, Cokley was the founding director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress. During the Obama administration
Rebecca_Cokley
Political rallies for women's rights
including women's rights, immigration reform, healthcare reform, disability justice, reproductive rights, the environment, LGBTQ rights, racial equality
2017_Women's_March
American motivational speaker and disability advocate
about overcoming adversity and uses social media to advocate for the disability justice movement and the LGBTQ community. Spencer West was born in 1981, in
Spencer_West
to a 2017 US Department of Justice statistical report Crime Against Persons with Disabilities, persons with disabilities in the US are at risk of a higher
Violence against people with disabilities
Violence_against_people_with_disabilities
Canadian-American writer
abuse and violence. They are also a writer and organizer within the disability justice movement. Piepzna-Samarasinha was raised in Worcester, Massachusetts
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Leah_Lakshmi_Piepzna-Samarasinha
Form of discrimination in environmental movements
ideal way to exist. Advocates argue that environmental justice must include disability justice, guided by the principle of “nothing about us without us
Eco-ableism
Stock short title used for legislation
rights movement Equal opportunity Justice, Manitoba. "Manitoba Laws". Blunt, Shamar (2025-01-17). "Landmark disability rights law passed". Barbados Today
Disability_discrimination_act
American disability activist
organizer, social entrepreneur, musician, founder and CEO of the disability justice organization New Disabled South, and a founding member of the rock
Dom_Kelly_(activist)
Disability justice-based performance project
Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based performance project that focuses on artists with disabilities, artists of color, and LGBTQ / gender-variant
Sins_Invalid
Concept in disability studies
individuals with disabilities. Research into internalized ableism has been informed by broader theories in psychology and social justice, which emphasize
Internalized_ableism
Slang term referring to disabled people
applying a disability justice lens to it. In this and many ways, the reclaiming of "crip" mirrors the reclaiming of queer. People with disabilities deem crip
Crip_(disability_term)
Canadian politician and activist
advocacy as a student at McMaster University. She later co-founded the Disability Justice Network Ontario in 2018 and the Hamilton Encampment Support Network
Sarah_Jama
Accessibility of World Wide Web
with disabilities, including both physical and mental disabilities. Through the curb cut effect, it also benefits people with situational disabilities and
Web_accessibility
describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people
List of disability-related terms with negative connotations
List_of_disability-related_terms_with_negative_connotations
Social movement seeking equal rights for disabled people
The disability rights movement is a global social movement, which seeks to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all disabled people. It is made
Disability_rights_movement
American activist and writer (born 1963)
Queerness and Disability Conference in 2002. His work is associated with the second wave of the disability rights movement and disability justice. Clare has
Eli_Clare
Disability and LGBTQ+ identity can both play significant roles in the life of an individual. Disability and sexuality can often intersect, for many people
Disability_and_LGBTQ_people
American disability rights activist (1974–2025)
Alice Wong (March 27, 1974 – November 14, 2025) was an American disability rights activist and writer based in San Francisco, California. Dedicated to
Alice_Wong_(activist)
Last resort income support program
The Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) is a means-tested government-funded last resort income support paid for qualifying residents in the province
Ontario Disability Support Program
Ontario_Disability_Support_Program
Form of pension
A disability pension is a form of pension given to those people who are permanently or temporarily unable to work due to a disability. An example of a
Disability_pension
activist. Her work focuses on Disability Arts, disability studies, and ways that disability rights and disability justice perspectives can be brought to
Simi_Linton
Disability rights activist
American disability rights activist, policy analyst, social worker, and public speaker who currently works as the Senior Director of the Disability Justice Initiative
Mia_Ives-Rublee
Conscripting of disabled persons for military service
Although people with disabilities are generally exempt from military service, conscription of people with disabilities has occurred on various occasions
Conscription of people with disabilities
Conscription_of_people_with_disabilities
Generalized neurodevelopmental disorder
disability, also disorder of intellectual development and known as learning difficulty (in the United Kingdom and different from learning disability)
Intellectual_disability
Creative works with disability-related themes or contexts
Disability art or disability arts is any art, theatre, fine arts, film, writing, music or club that takes disability as its theme or whose context relates
Disability_art
Form of abuse
Disability abuse is when a person with a disability is abused physically, financially, sexually and/or psychologically due to the person being disabled
Disability_abuse
United States law
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with a Free
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Individuals_with_Disabilities_Education_Act
Assistive devices for people with disabilities
adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and the elderly. People with disabilities often have difficulty performing activities of daily
Assistive_technology
American rabbi and disability rights activist
notable for her contributions to inclusive Torah and advocacy for disability justice. Tuchman was born in 1986, and has been blind since infancy. She was
Lauren_Tuchman
likely to have or incur a disability within their lifetime compared to more financially privileged populations. The rate of disability within impoverished nations
Disability_and_poverty
Autistic disability rights activist
chairperson of the American Bar Association Civil Rights & Social Justice Disability Rights Committee. They are also policy counsel for privacy and data
Ly_Xīnzhèn_M._Zhǎngsūn_Brown
Apparatus to help one walk
or stability while walking, most commonly due to age-related mobility disability, including frailty. Another common equivalent term for a walker is a Zimmer
Walker_(mobility)
Multimedia artist and musician
musician, composer, writer, and performer. Their work concerns disability, justice, temporality, and historical experience. The artist's dysfluency
JJJJJerome_Ellis
Disabilities Act and justice with the creation of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities
Disability in the United States
Disability_in_the_United_States
This disability rights timeline lists events relating to the civil rights of people with disabilities in the United States of America, including court
Timeline of disability rights in the United States
Timeline_of_disability_rights_in_the_United_States
1990 disability rights protest
The Capitol Crawl was a disability rights protest on March 12, 1990, in support of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). It
Capitol_Crawl
Aspect of disabled people's rights in the United States
either a physical, developmental, or learning disability. The barriers that 33.7 million persons with disabilities face within the American electoral process
Suffrage for Americans with disabilities
Suffrage_for_Americans_with_disabilities
United States special education classification
Multiple disabilities is a term for a person with more than one disability. A person with both a sensory disability and a motor disability would qualify
Multiple_disabilities
British academic and activist
and disability rights activist. He was the first Professor of Disability Studies in the world, and key advocate of the social model of disability. Michael
Mike Oliver (disability advocate)
Mike_Oliver_(disability_advocate)
American sound artist (born 1980)
Whitney Biennial in 2019. Her work is often connected to disability art and disability justice. Where she explores concepts of De'VIA in her art in addition
Christine_Sun_Kim
Biomedical view of human disability
The medical model of disability, or medical model, is based in a biomedical perception of disability. This model links a disability diagnosis to an individual's
Medical_model_of_disability
Theory of discrimination
include gender, caste, sex, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, disability, physical appearance, and age. These factors can lead to both empowerment
Intersectionality
Series of US coins
uncovering crucial evidence of dark matter Stacey Milbern, a visionary disability justice activist Althea Gibson, a multisport athlete and first Black athlete
American_Women_quarters
United States government program
because it had been administering a nationwide adult disability program under the Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits (DIB) program since 1956 for
Supplemental_Security_Income
Legal document for special education
specific learning disability, autism, emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, orthopedic impairment, multiple disabilities, hearing impairments
Individualized Education Program
Individualized_Education_Program
This disability rights timeline lists events relating to the civil rights of people with disabilities in Canada, including court decisions, the passage
Timeline of disability rights in Canada
Timeline_of_disability_rights_in_Canada
Limitation on a person's physical functioning, mobility, dexterity or stamina
eating). The term physical disability is very broad, and a range of disabilities are included. Some examples of physical disabilities include: blindness, deafness
Physical_disability
American LGBTQ activist, sex worker and performer (1945–1992)
Tourmaline was one of the first writers to discuss Johnson's life using a disability justice framework on her blog, The Spirit Was. Piepzna-Samarasinha argues
Marsha_P._Johnson
The depiction of disability in the media plays a major role in molding the public perception of disability. Perceptions portrayed in the media directly
Disability_in_the_media
Disability benefit in the United Kingdom
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is a social security benefit in the United Kingdom paid to eligible claimants who have personal care and/or mobility
Disability_Living_Allowance
Fair incorporation of persons with disabilities in society
Inclusion, in relation to persons with disabilities, is defined as including individuals with disabilities in everyday activities and ensuring they have
Inclusion_(disability_rights)
Author, podcaster, and activist
anti-fat bias, and have given talks about sexuality, fat positivity, disability justice, and racism. Rashatwar is nonbinary. In 2023, Rashatwar came under
Sonalee_Rashatwar
Sexuality and disability is a topic regarding the sexual behavior and practices of people with disabilities. Like the general population, individuals
Sexuality_and_disability
1990 U.S. civil rights law
the Department of Justice or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who can sue on their behalf. Title II prohibits disability discrimination by
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990
Disability in the arts is an aspect within various arts disciplines of inclusive practices involving disability. It manifests itself in the output and
Disability_in_the_arts
Treaty of the United Nations
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Convention_on_the_Rights_of_Persons_with_Disabilities
American moral philosopher
Wieseler, Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies (Routledge, 2024) with Mercer Gary, The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability (Oxford
Joel_Michael_Reynolds
Culture of people with disabilities
Disability culture is a concept developed in the late 1980s to describe a unique lifestyle shaped or influenced by disability, distinct from pathologizing
Disability_culture
American art educator (born 1955)
feminist pedagogy, inclusion, disability justice, transdisciplinary creativity, transcultural dialogue, and social justice arts-based research. So co-founded
Karen_Keifer-Boyd
Impact of disasters on disabled people
with disabilities. This issue is recognized and addressed by Article 11 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Disability_and_disasters
WHO classification of health and functioning
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is a classification of the health components of functioning and disability. The ICF received approval
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
International_Classification_of_Functioning,_Disability_and_Health
1999 United States Supreme Court case
people with mental disabilities. The Supreme Court held that under the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals with mental disabilities have the right
Olmstead_v._L.C.
This disability rights timeline lists events outside the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Japan relating to the civil rights of people with disabilities
Timeline of disability rights outside the United States
Timeline_of_disability_rights_outside_the_United_States
Chair with wheels used by people with mobility deficiencies
used when walking is difficult or impossible due to illnesses, injury, disabilities, or age-related health conditions. Wheelchairs provide mobility, postural
Wheelchair
Indian government ministry responsible for affirmative action
The Ministry of Disability Welfare is the ministry in the Government of Maharashtra which was carved out of the Ministry of Social Justice (Maharashtra)
Ministry of Disability Welfare (Maharashtra)
Ministry_of_Disability_Welfare_(Maharashtra)
This disability rights timeline lists events relating to the civil rights of people with disabilities in the United Kingdom, including court decisions
Timeline of disability rights in the United Kingdom
Timeline_of_disability_rights_in_the_United_Kingdom
Act of the Parliament of Australia
The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) is an Act passed by the Parliament of Australia in which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities
Disability Discrimination Act 1992
Disability_Discrimination_Act_1992
American activist (born 1998)
on gun control, voting rights, climate change, environmental and disability justice. Frias was born premature at 27 weeks in West Harlem on January 13
Daphne_Frias
Putting the person before the diagnosis
of disability etiquette, the practice is intended to avoid unconsciously stigmatizing or dehumanizing people with chronic illnesses or disabilities, by
People-first_language
Type of organization distributing masks
Davis. They identify harm reduction outreach, abolitionist work, disability justice organizing, and disaster related mutual aid as their core principles
Mask_bloc
US non-profit civil rights law firm
New York City, specializing in the areas of disability rights, access to health care and environmental justice. NYLPI was founded in 1976 by eleven attorneys
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
New_York_Lawyers_for_the_Public_Interest
This disability rights timeline lists events relating to the civil rights of people with disabilities in Japan, including court decisions, the passage
Timeline of disability rights in Japan
Timeline_of_disability_rights_in_Japan
People who require assistance for disabilities
(or additional needs) refers to individuals who require assistance for disabilities that may be medical, mental, or psychological. Guidelines for clinical
Special_needs
Disability beginning before adulthood
Developmental disability is a diverse group of chronic conditions, comprising mental or physical impairments that arise before adulthood. Developmental
Developmental_disability
with disabilities globally, with 80% living in the developing world, therefore lacking access to education, healthcare and employment. Disability includes
Youth_and_disability
Profession that helps a disabled person function in everyday life
Following this, American orthopedic surgeons began treating children with disabilities and employed women trained in physical education, and remedial exercise
Physical_therapy
Wheelchair propelled by electric motor
themselves to a bus stop is still not eligible for a power wheelchair. Disability rights activists are campaigning for prescription procedures to focus
Motorized_wheelchair
The intersection of disability and religion concerns the manner in which disabled people are treated within religious communities, the religious texts
Disability_and_religion
Disability affecting recognition and control of emotions
An emotional or behavioral disability is a disability that impacts a person's ability to effectively recognize, interpret, control, and express fundamental
Emotional or behavioral disability
Emotional_or_behavioral_disability
American autism rights activist
Unacknowledged on a demographic form. Thompson, Rachel (September 3, 2020). "Disability Justice Advocate and Writer Lydia X. Z. Brown on Autism and Neurodivergence"
Kassiane_Asasumasu
Government ministry of India
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is a Government of India ministry. It is responsible for welfare, social justice and empowerment of disadvantaged
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Ministry_of_Social_Justice_and_Empowerment
American institute studying disability in society
The Center for Disability Studies (CDS) at New York University (NYU) is a United States-based institute that promotes disability scholarship, artistic
Center_for_Disability_Studies
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