Knowra Ableism Ableism Ableism is discrimination, prejudice, or social arrangements that disadvantage disabled people and privilege nondisabled people. It can operate through individual conduct, institutional rules, and assumptions about whose bodies and minds are normal.
Medical model of disability : The view that disability arises chiefly from an individual's impairment, understood as a medical problem to treat or cure. Locating disability in individual impairment can obscure the social barriers that ableism creates.
Accessibility : The design of environments, services, information, and technologies so people with disabilities can use them. Accessible design counters barriers that otherwise exclude disabled people from ordinary activities.
Ed Roberts : An American disability rights activist who helped establish the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley. His organizing advanced independent living and disability-led advocacy against institutional control.
Disability rights : The human and civil rights of disabled people, including equality, accessibility, and participation. Rights frameworks name protections and remedies in response to ableist exclusion.
Inspiration porn : Portrayals of disabled people as inspirational chiefly for nondisabled audiences because of ordinary activities or existence. It can turn disabled people into symbols while overlooking access barriers and individual agency.
Social model of disability : A framework that locates disability in social barriers and exclusion rather than solely in bodily or cognitive impairment. It makes clear how inaccessible environments and institutions produce disablement.
Employment discrimination : Unfair treatment in hiring, pay, promotion, or working conditions because of a legally protected characteristic. Ableism can restrict hiring and advancement through stereotypes and inaccessible workplaces.
Judy Heumann : An American disability rights activist who helped lead campaigns for accessible education and civil rights protections. Her activism challenged exclusion in schools, employment, and public policy.
Disablism : Discrimination and oppressive practices directed at disabled people, a term often used similarly to ableism. The term overlaps with ableism but can foreground discriminatory actions and structures.
Disability pride : A movement affirming disability as part of identity and challenging shame, stigma, and demands for conformity. It rejects ableist assumptions that disability necessarily makes a life lesser.
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