Resources

UBC Equity and Inclusion Office (link)

• Human Rights & Conflict Advising – A place to get support to address discrimination or conflict
  
• Activating Inclusion Toolkit – Read UBC’s Inclusion Action Plan, complete the Inclusion Self-Assessment Tool, and access other tools and resources
  
• UBC Policies and Reports – Review UBC’s employment equity policy, discrimination & harassment policy, and various reports from UBC units
  
• UBC Disability-related Academic Programs and Research – Explore programs and research groups specifically related to Disability work at UBC
  
• Guide to Accessible and Inclusive Event Planning – Tips and resources to plan all aspects of an event to ensure accessibility and inclusiveness
  
• Funding Opportunities – For UBC Employees and Students at UBCO and UBCV with Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI)-themed project ideas
  
• Accessibility Guidelines for Facilitators – UBC guidelines for designing presentations

UBC Workplace Accommodations (link)

UBC Centre for Workplace Accessibility (link)

• Workplace Accommodations Fund – submit a form to request funding for equipment or accommodations-related workplace expenses
• ErgoAccess Demo Program – currently UBCV only; test out Ergonomic and Accessiblity equipment to see what would best support you
• Webinars:
  • Disability and Wellness: Hard of Hearing in the Workplace
  • Disability Inclusion in Hiring
  • Disability Inclusion in Teaching and Learning
  • Deaf Culture in the Workplace
    

UBC Web Accessibility – (link) Resources for web publishers

UBC Disabilities United Collective (DUC) – (link) Resources, support and advocacy for UBC students

UBCO Students with Disabilities Discord Server – (link) a space to connect, created by students for students. The UBCO disability discord server aims to bring together disabled students at UBCO as a place to form friendships, discuss our interests and passions, and in addition, pursue disabled-led advocacy, beginning at UBC.

The Kindness Project – (link) Promoting cultural change in academia and beyond to a shift towards kindness

Critical Axis – (link) Analysis of disability representation in the media

Rewrite The Rules Campaign – BC Office of the Human Right’s Commissioner – (link) This campaign hopes to drive more conversations about ableism. It is intended to encourage self-reflection and exploration

Job Demands & Accommodation Planning Tool (JDAPT) (link) – An easy-to-use online tool designed for workers with an episodic disability—that is, a chronic health condition, often invisible, that reoccurs, fluctuates or is getting worse over time. If that includes you, the JDAPT can help you identify the support you may need to continue working comfortably, safely and productively in your job.

UBC Career Resources for Historically Marginalized Communities (link) – support for individuals from historically marginalized groups with career options and seeking employment

Crips and Allies Reading List

• Fostering a Culture of Accessibility within UBC Geography Guide
• Calls to Action by Disabled UBC Students

Articles:

Chow, A. “This is not going to control my life: Young and Living with Fibromyalgia.” In Dissonant Disabilities: Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives. Canadian Scholars’ Press, Toronto, 2008. P. 99-108.

Cohen-Rottenberg, R “Where are All the Disabled People in the Body Positivity Campaigns?” September 28, 2017. available at: https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/where-are-all-the-disabled-people-in-the-body-positivity-campaigns/

Clare, E. “Gaping, Gawking, Staring.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Vol. 9. No. 1-2. 2003. p. 257-261.

Demas, D “Triple Jeopardy: Native Women with Disabilities,” Canadian Woman Studies Vol. 13, No. 4, 1993. P. 53-5

Goering, S. Rethinking disability: the social model of disability and chronic disease. Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine. 8(2), p. 134-138 2015.

Jones, M “‘Gee, You Don’t Look Handicapped . . .’: Why I Use a White Cane to Tell People that I’m Deaf;” July–August 1997 (Web Edition of The Ragged Edge) [6 pages] available at: http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/archive/look.htm

Hamilton, A, “Oh the Joys of Invisibility,” Electric Edge, July–August 1997 (Web Edition of The Ragged Edge) [6 pages] available at: http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/archive/look.htm

Kerschbaum, S. L. (2014). On rhetorical agency and disclosing disability in academic writing. Rhetoric Review, 33(1), 55-71.

Kittay, E. “The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political: A Philosopher and Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes From the Battlefield.”  Metaphilosophy, Vol. 40, No. 3/4, 2009.

Lorde, A. “II: Breast Cancer: A Black Lesbian Feminist Experience,” in The Cancer Journals, p. 24-54. (read her fantastic introduction, p. 1-17).

Mingus, M (2011). Access intimacy: The missing link. Leaving Evidence. https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/.

Mingus, M “Reflecting on Frida Kahlo’s Birthday and the Importance of Recognizing Ourselves for (in) Each Other)” 2010. http://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/reflecting-on-frida-kahlo’s-birthday-and-the-importance-of-recognizing-ourselves-for-in-each-other/

Miserandino, C. “The Spoon Theory Written by Christine Miserandino” available at: https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

Stats Can: Harassment and discrimination among faculty and researchers in Canada’s postsecondary institutions: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2021001/article/00006-eng.htm

Temple-Jones, C. (2020). Dropping the disability beat: Why specialized reporting doesn’t solve disability (mis)representation.In Ellis, K., Goggin, G., Halle, B., & R. Curtis. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media. (pp. 329-340). Routledge.

Wendell, S. “Notes from Bed: Learning from Chronic Illness.” In Dissonant Disabilities: Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives. Canadian Scholars’ Press, Toronto, 2008. P. 209-217.

White, J. (2024) Mental Health Disability Rights in the Workplace: A Guide for Employees https://onlinemftprograms.com/mental-health-rights-in-the-workplace/

Whittington-Walsh, F. “From Freaks to Savants: Disability and Hegemony From the Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) to Sling Blade (1997)” Disability & Society, Vol. 17, No. 6, 2002. P. 695-707.

Wolframe, P. M., “The Madwoman in the Academy, or, Revealing the Invisible Straightjacket: Theorizing and Teaching Saneism and Sane Privilege.” Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2013. Available at: http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3425/3200

Books:

Beckman L and Davies, M.  (2013).  Democracy is a Very Radical Idea. In Menzies, R. J., Reaume, G., &   LeFrançois, B. A. (Eds.), Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies.

Clare, E. Exile and Pride: Queerness, Disability, and Liberation. Duke University Press, 2015.

Davis, L. The Disability Studies Reader (DSR) 5^th edition. ed. Routledge, New York, 2017

Dolmage, J. (2018). Academic ableism: Disability and higher education. University of Michigan Press. 

Forney, E. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me. Penguin Books, New York, 2012.

Frazee, C (2023) Dispatches from Disabled Country https://webcat.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=12826994

Kafer, A. (2013). Feminist, queer, crip. Indiana University Press.

Menzies, R. J., Reaume, G., & LeFrançois, B. A. (Eds.), Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies. Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc.

Piepzna-Samarasinha, L. L., Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)

Price, M. (2011). Mad at school: Rhetorics of mental disability and academic life. University of Michigan Press.

Wong, A. Disability Visibility : First Person Stories from the Twenty-first century Vintage, 2020

Wong, A. Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life (2022)

Other Media:

Berne, P., Arnold, R., Gauthier, L., New Day Films, Kanopy (Firm), & Sins Invalid (Organization) (2013). Sins invalid: An unshamed claim to beauty in the face of invisibility. New Day Films. Watch the trailer and purchase here: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/documentary

Krip Hop Institute. Krip Hop: The Movie. Krip Hop Nation. https://kriphopnation.com/krip-hop-the-movie/

Lebrecht, J. & Newnham, N. (Directors). (2020). Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution [Film]. Higher Ground Productions. Netflix.

Penrose, L. (Host). (2020, December 23). Episode 9: Accessibility Friendly Gaming. [Audio podcast]. In Behold Her. https://lysapenrose.com/beholdher/9  

Wong, A. (Host). (2017, October 8). Episode 4: Disabled People in Media & Journalism [Audio podcast]. In Disability Video Project. https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2017/10/08/ep-4- disabled-people-in-media-journalism/

Young, S. (2014, June 9). I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much. TED.https://www.ted.com/talks/stella_young_i_m_not_your_inspiration_thank_you_very_much?