Welcome to Schauer hour, I hope you’re ready to hear my thoughts lol. This week (and next) we’ll be discussing major milestones and events that happened and continue to happen during the Disability Rights Movement.

I do have to apologize in advance as *I am autistic* and *we do talk about autism* and *I am allowed to cry.* I realize emotions are just a natural part of being human but when I cry my voice gets quieter and becomes generally hard to hear, so next week I will enunciate better or take a moment to collect myself.

I can’t wait to share more next time as I didn’t even make it to the passing of the ADA! But we will get there. I hope you enjoy and can’t wait to chat next week.

Books:

Disability Pride: Dispatches From a Post-ADA World - Ben Mattlin
How Emotions Are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions - Batja Mesquita
Descartes Error - Antonio Damasio
Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable - Muhammad H. Zaman
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves - Nicola Twilley
Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s - Charles Piller
The Palestine Laboratory - Antony Loewenstein
Plastic: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil’s Biggest Bet - Beth Gardiner
A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease - Shilpa Ravella
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System - Matt Richtel

Sources & Resources:

Trump’s action signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-actions-signal-a-move-toward-institutionalizing-people-with-disabilities-advocates-warn

History of Disability Rights Milestones and Laws

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/disabilityrights/about_us/timeline/

The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live with Their Families

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-social-security-ssi-disability-benefits-cuts-parents-children

Lomax’s Matrix: Disability, Solidarity, and the Black Power of 504

https://dsq-sds.org/article/id/1086/

Worth Repeating: Ed Roberts’ 504 Sit-In Victory Rally Speech

https://ollibean.org/ed/

A History of Institutions for People with Disabilities: Neglect, Abuse, and Death

https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/2023/10/25/a-history-of-institutions-for-people-with-disabilities-neglect-abuse-and-death/

Fairness of Reagan’s Cutoffs of Disability Aid Questioned

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/09/us/fairness-of-reagan-s-cutoffs-of-disability-aid-questioned.html?eafs_enabled=false

AIDS blood tests for ‘insurability’

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SWTN19880818.1.18&srpos=46&e=------198-en--20--41--txt-txIN-Insurance+companies+mental+health-------

Disability Resources

https://www.disabilityresources.org/

The website I mention at the end with a pretty substantial amount of disability resources!

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