Guest Speakers

Lydia X.Z. Brown

Young east asian person outside, craning their neck upward at a tree with brilliant orange/red leaves in autumn. Boston, Massachusetts, Fall 2015 — Photo of Lydia X.Z. Brown from their website, Autistichoya.com

Lydia X.Z. Brown’s Website: Autistic Hoya

Lydia X.Z. Brown’s Twitter Account

Aimi Hamraie

a black-and-white map of the Vanderbilt campus with accessible parking and routes indicated in red] — Map of the Vanderbilt Campus with accessible parking and routes indicated in red

Aimi Hamraie’s Mapping Access Project Website

Aimi Hamraie’s Twitter Account

Annette Vee

A black and white photo of a small dog on a couch or futon. There is a small, dark pillow next to the dog, and light is filtering in through the window — Photo of a cute dog named Remy

Annette Vee’s Personal Website

Annette Vee’s Twitter Account

Literature

Note: You must be logged into your U-M account for these links to lead you to the ebook page.

Jay Dolmage’s (2014) Digital Rhetoric
Jay Dolmage’s (2017) Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education
Margaret Price’s (2011) Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Rachel Adams, David Serlin, and David H Serlin’s (2015) Keywords for Disability Studies

Disability Justice Organizations

Link to the collaborative document on disability justice organizations

Accessibility Resources

Link to the collaborative document on accessibility tools

Organization Publications

Note: These sources may be read with or against the grain.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Disability and Health” Site
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Disability” Site

Academic Journal Publications

Vyshali Manivannan’s (2017) “What We See When We Digitize Pain: The Risk of Valorizing Image-Based Representations of Fibromyalgia Over Body and Bodily Experience” in Digital Health
Elena Gonzalez-Polledo’s (2016) “Chronic Media Worlds: Social Media and the Problem of Pain Communication on Tumblr” in Social Media + Society
Elena Gonzalez-Polledo & Jen Tarr’s (2014) “The Thing About Pain: The Remaking of Illness Narratives in Chronic Pain Expression on Social Media” in New Media and Society