To Wear or Not to Wear: Face Masks in Disability Focused Events
Sophie Phillips and Armineh Soorenian outline some of the access difficulties wearing face masks can pose for Disabled people, and how to account for conflicting impairments.
What Do Films Say About Autism?
Gulsabah Palinko explores representations of autism in seven recent films, considering their impact on public perceptions.
Addiction and the Scope of Ableism
John T. Maier explores the idea of addiction as a disability and proposes a moral and metaphysical argument for its reclassification in UK law. Even when we aim to be inclusive, it can be
Life and Death in the Nervous System: A Review of Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s ‘Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age’
James Rakoczi reviews Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Unraveling is about facilitated communication, regimes of personhood, and just how far our nervous systems