Overview
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This page is the main page for a reading group of Jay Dolmage’s Academic Ableism that I am co-leading at Calvin University. There will be a sub-page for each of the chapters, as well as the introduction. Each of these pages will include an overview of some of the main ideas in that chapter and links to other related resources. It’s my hope that these pages might be useful for others seeking to make their own universities more accessible to disabled faculty, staff, and students.
As I have argued elsewhere, communities–including academic communities–will be better off when they are structured to properly value and welcome disabled people.
I greatly appreciate, than in line with Dolmage’s argument about the importance of access, the University of Michigan Press has made Dolmage’s book open access. While you can purchase a hard copy here (or here), you can also access a PDF of the book here. Or you can listen to the audiobook for free here.
Sub-pages (please be patient; I’ll be generating these over the coming months as the reading group progresses):
introduction
chapter 1
chapter 2
chapter 3
chapter 4
chapter 5
chapter 6
chapter 7