“I’ll Pick You Up By Your Back Brace and Throw You Like a Suitcase”: On Naming Discrimination Against Disability

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2004
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Weise, Jillian
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University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies
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What word is there for discrimination practiced against disability? In the following essay, I will explore—through personal narrative—incidents of discrimination in the academic, non-academic, and reader-text environments. Then I will discuss the various meanings of the word ableist and the importance of placing a name for discrimination against disability in the public domain.
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Disability, Discrimination, Ableist/Ableism
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Weise, J. (2004). “I’ll Pick You Up By Your Back Brace and Throw You Like a Suitcase”: On Naming Discrimination Against Disability. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 1(1).
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