Sources on ableism
The collaborators in the project personally selected sources that they consider important to understanding and/or challenging ableism. They wish to share these sources. The authors of many of the sources explicitly address their intersecting identities and experiential backgrounds. Many of them identify as disabled, queer and/or people of colour. Below is a selection of the sources collected by each collaborator which is, from their perspectice, relevant to an intersectional understanding of ableism.
For an overview of all collected sources see:
Published data link: https://doi.org/10.11587/YX7NXN
Sources selected by Marjorie Aunos
Aunos, Marjorie; Palmer, Ingrid; Watkus, Heather (2021)
Amplifying voices of Parents with disabilities
Video (English)
Video of an event that shows how parenting is joyful with a disability - stories of parents with disabilities who share about the joy of being a parent.
Izzie, Dani (2022)
Documentary film (English)
The pregnancy follows Dani and her husband - during her pregnancy of their twin girls.
Hull, Eliza; Rippin, Sally (2022)
Children's book (English)
A children's bookabout how different families are similar to all families.
Sources selected by Eva Egermann
Walden, RA (2019)
Notes From The Underlands: a manifesto for a queer future
Shortfilm (English)
Notes From The Underlands is a performative text from the depths of queer disability culture. It is both a future-orientated vision of a sick, disabled and care-giving Utopia, and an urgent call to action in the now. The text is performed through video, audio, large-scale print and subtitles; challenging the notion that the body must be physically present (and abled) in order to perform.
Adebajo, Tobi (2021)
Poem (English)
This is a text/poem by the British artist Tobi Adebjo about a scene in Tobis life, making pancakes with Tobis child. It makes readers aware of the levels of self-loath, self-hatred, self-criticism as aspects of internalized ableism.
Göncü, Kaan (2022)
Article (English/Turkish)
People with disabilities are mostly erased from the sexual world due to constructions, prejudices and misbeliefs about their sexualities. The Author writes about an ‘ableist depiction of the sexual world’ where only those who are ‘able-bodied’ and ‘heterosexual’ can access sexual relations.
Sources selected by Maria R. Palacios
Taylor, Sunaura (2017)
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
Book (English)
This book highlights how ableism has placed disabled people at the same level of animal oppression while recognizing the oneness of life and our own connections to animal rights and collective liberation.
Ulanda Barret, Kay (2020)
Book (English)
Powerful poetry focused on the intersections of queer, disability and race.
Palacios, Maria R.; Watts Belzer, Julia (2023)
Crip Survival Networks: Disabled and Undocumented Communities Resisting Ableism and Abandonment
Interview (English/Spanish)
An interview with Maria R. Palacios which is part of a series of interviews about the intersection of disability and climate chaos and how disabled people survive.
Sources selected by Ingrid Palmer
Toronto Neighbourhood Centres; Palmer, Ingrid (2022)
Report, Ressources (English)
These resources are building off of an initial 3-part series that was developed in collaboration with consultants David Meyers and Fran Odette. Tangled Arts+ shared their learnings around updating and strengthening their own policies and practices to HR staff from 10 member agencies, who were then guided in reviewing their existing policies through a disability justice lens.
Barzak, Sarah; King, Debbie; Patel, Shreya; MacGregor, Nneka; Harper, Jenn; Karpoche, Bhutila; Andrew, Jill; San Pedro, Char; Inder, Karyn; George, Nadia (2022)
Video (English)
This YouTube video provides a background to intersectionality from the perspective of women of colour.
Palmer, Ingrid (n.d.)
Ingrid Palmer's youtube channel: Focus On Ability
Video channel (English)
Ingrid Palmer youtube video library.