from Steven Taylor:
Voices of Madness, Voices of Mental ill-health
Centre for Health Histories, University of Huddersfield
15th- 16th Sept 2016
In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historians to lower their gaze so that they might better understand patient-doctor roles in the past, historians have sought to place the voices of previously, silent, marginalised and disenfranchised individuals at the heart of their analyses.
Contemporaneously, the development of service user groups and patient consultations have become an important feature of the debates and planning related to current approaches to prevention, care and treatment. The aim of this conference is to further explore and reveal how the voices of those living with and treating mental illness have been recorded and expressed. We hope to consider recent developments in these areas with a view to facilitating an interdisciplinary discourse around historical perspectives of mental health and illness.
The organisers invite proposals for 20 minutes on the themes of voices of madness and mental ill health under headings including but not limited to:
Oral history and testimony
Mental ill-health and community care
Mental ill-health and institutional histories
The role of informal carers
The growth of the mental health professions
Mental ill health and the voice(s) of adolescentsand children
Museums and the ‘heritage’ of mental ill health
The literature (fiction and non-fiction) of mental ill health
Language of madness (if not covered by ‘heritage’)
Dissenting voices
Appropriation of voices
Absent voices
Voices and art
Voices and stigma
The voices of mental ill-health on TV and radio
Individual, activist and social media
For more information contact Dr Rob Ellis (r.ellis@hud.ac.uk), Dr Sarah Kendal (s.kendal@hud.ac.uk) or Dr Steven Taylor (s.taylor@hud.ac.uk). To submit a paper proposal (250 words maximum) or express an interest, please contact Steve Taylor by 14 March 2015.
We hope to offer some bursaries for postgraduate and early career researchers.
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Thursday, January 21, 2016
CFP: Disability and Deafness in Literature for Young People (Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies special issue)
CFP: Disability and Deafness in Literature for Young People (Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies special issue)
Guest editors: Chloë Hughes and Elizabeth A. Wheeler
This special issue of the JLCDS aims to bring together an international and multidisciplinary base of readers and writers who explore disability in literature published for young people.
While disability and deafness have often featured in literature for young people, their most usual role has been as a “narrative prosthesis” supporting the storyline. Disability and Deaf literature for young readers has boomed in the twenty-first century, including bestsellers like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Fault in Our Stars, Wonder, Wonderstruck, Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and Out of My Mind, as well as a growing collection of texts written in or with Blissymbolics, Braille, Sign Language, or in tactile, textile, interactive, and digital formats. This special issue reconsiders the history and current urgency of disability and deafness in literature for young readers in light of this twenty-first century publishing boom.
Children are often on the front lines of the struggle over the meanings of disability. For young people both with and without disabilities, the works they encounter provide long-lasting frames of reference for understanding bodymind diversity. It is especially important that scholars well versed in disability and Deaf justice, theory, and lived experience critique this canon.
We seek articles on a wide variety of genres, including fantasy, dystopias, science fiction, graphic memoirs and novels, biography, digital forms like blogs and vlogs, “misfit romance,” “sick lit,” and superhero stories. Disabilities that only exist in fictional worlds are fair game. The guest editors are interested in submissions that cross-examine race, class, gender, and sexuality as well as disability and deafness and represent a wide cross-section of international literatures and ethnic groups. We welcome proposals from disability and Deaf studies scholars (especially those who may not have previously written about literature for young people), but also encourage submissions from scholars of other disciplines who might lend their perspectives on using literature for young people with representations of disability to explore bodymind diversity with children and adolescents. We are also interested in intergenerational dialogues, interviews with authors and illustrators who have included protagonists with disabilities or published books for young people in accessible formats, as well as reviews of recently published young adult literature that features protagonists with disabilities. We particularly encourage submissions from scholars with the same disability as the protagonist.
Examples of content foci for this special issue of the JLCDS include, but are not limited to:
• Disabled and Deaf characters challenging normalcy
• Fantastic Freaks and Critical Crips in countercultural texts for young people
• Aesthetic/artistic representations of disability in picturebooks
• Literature for young people by Disabled or Deaf authors and illustrators
• Beyond “narrative prosthesis”
• Children’s and Young Adult Literature in accessible formats
• The role /aesthetics of disability accommodations in texts for young people
• Visibility or invisibility of Disability Rights in literature for young people
• Intersectionality: race, gender, class, sexual orientation, gender identity
• Representations of chronic illness and mental health
• Biographical writing for young people—what is / is not included?
• Critiques of didactic texts for young people on disability
• Interviews of authors/ illustrators
• Reviews of recently published children’s and young adult literature with representations of disability
Timetable:
April 15, 2016: submission of a 500 word proposal for articles or 150 word proposal for reviews and a one-page curriculum vitae to guest editors at hughesc@mail.wou.edu and ewheeler@uoregon.edu.
May 15, 2016: prospective authors notified of proposal status.
November 1, 2016: final versions of selected papers due to editors.
February 1, 2017: finalists selected. Decisions and revisions on submissions sent to authors.
May 1, 2017: final, revised papers due from finalists.
Guest editors: Chloë Hughes and Elizabeth A. Wheeler
This special issue of the JLCDS aims to bring together an international and multidisciplinary base of readers and writers who explore disability in literature published for young people.
While disability and deafness have often featured in literature for young people, their most usual role has been as a “narrative prosthesis” supporting the storyline. Disability and Deaf literature for young readers has boomed in the twenty-first century, including bestsellers like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Fault in Our Stars, Wonder, Wonderstruck, Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and Out of My Mind, as well as a growing collection of texts written in or with Blissymbolics, Braille, Sign Language, or in tactile, textile, interactive, and digital formats. This special issue reconsiders the history and current urgency of disability and deafness in literature for young readers in light of this twenty-first century publishing boom.
Children are often on the front lines of the struggle over the meanings of disability. For young people both with and without disabilities, the works they encounter provide long-lasting frames of reference for understanding bodymind diversity. It is especially important that scholars well versed in disability and Deaf justice, theory, and lived experience critique this canon.
We seek articles on a wide variety of genres, including fantasy, dystopias, science fiction, graphic memoirs and novels, biography, digital forms like blogs and vlogs, “misfit romance,” “sick lit,” and superhero stories. Disabilities that only exist in fictional worlds are fair game. The guest editors are interested in submissions that cross-examine race, class, gender, and sexuality as well as disability and deafness and represent a wide cross-section of international literatures and ethnic groups. We welcome proposals from disability and Deaf studies scholars (especially those who may not have previously written about literature for young people), but also encourage submissions from scholars of other disciplines who might lend their perspectives on using literature for young people with representations of disability to explore bodymind diversity with children and adolescents. We are also interested in intergenerational dialogues, interviews with authors and illustrators who have included protagonists with disabilities or published books for young people in accessible formats, as well as reviews of recently published young adult literature that features protagonists with disabilities. We particularly encourage submissions from scholars with the same disability as the protagonist.
Examples of content foci for this special issue of the JLCDS include, but are not limited to:
• Disabled and Deaf characters challenging normalcy
• Fantastic Freaks and Critical Crips in countercultural texts for young people
• Aesthetic/artistic representations of disability in picturebooks
• Literature for young people by Disabled or Deaf authors and illustrators
• Beyond “narrative prosthesis”
• Children’s and Young Adult Literature in accessible formats
• The role /aesthetics of disability accommodations in texts for young people
• Visibility or invisibility of Disability Rights in literature for young people
• Intersectionality: race, gender, class, sexual orientation, gender identity
• Representations of chronic illness and mental health
• Biographical writing for young people—what is / is not included?
• Critiques of didactic texts for young people on disability
• Interviews of authors/ illustrators
• Reviews of recently published children’s and young adult literature with representations of disability
Timetable:
April 15, 2016: submission of a 500 word proposal for articles or 150 word proposal for reviews and a one-page curriculum vitae to guest editors at hughesc@mail.wou.edu and ewheeler@uoregon.edu.
May 15, 2016: prospective authors notified of proposal status.
November 1, 2016: final versions of selected papers due to editors.
February 1, 2017: finalists selected. Decisions and revisions on submissions sent to authors.
May 1, 2017: final, revised papers due from finalists.
Saturday, January 09, 2016
DHA Outstanding Book Award
From the DHA:
The Disability History Association promotes the relevance of disability to
broader historical enquiry and facilitates research, conference travel, and
publication for scholars engaged in any field of disability history.
The Disability History Association is excited to announce its 5th Annual
Outstanding Publication Award. The award alternates between books and
peer-reviewed articles or book chapters.
In 2016 the award committee will accept book submissions. Submissions are
welcome from scholars in all fields who engage in work relating to the
history of disability. Book submissions may have one or multiple authors
and may be a single monograph, or an edited collection, provided the latter
contains new and original scholarship.
Although the award is open to all authors covering all geographic areas and
time periods, the publication must be in English, and must have a
publication date within the two years preceding the submission date (i.e.
1/1/2014 – 5/1/2016). If your book was published in 2014 or 2015, or it
will be published in the first four months of 2016, your book is eligible
for the prize.
The amount of the award is $600.
All submissions should be sent to the award committee care of Michael
Rembis no later than May 1, 2016.
Authors should arrange for five (5) copies of the book to be sent directly
to the award committee at: Michael Rembis, Department of History,
University at Buffalo, 552 Park Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-4130. Submissions
should also be sent in a format compatible with screen reading software,
such as a .doc file or a text-based .pdf to marembis@buffalo.edu.
In the interest of modeling best practices in the field of disability
studies, we require that the publisher/author provide an electronic copy in
text-based .pdf or .doc file format for the review committee. We understand
that copyright rules apply, and we will only use the electronic copy for
the purposes of the DHA Outstanding Publication Award. Manuscripts not
provided in accessible electronic formats for screen reading software in a
timely manner will not be considered for the prize.
The Disability History Association board will announce the recipient of the
DHA Outstanding Publication Award in September 2016.
The Disability History Association promotes the relevance of disability to
broader historical enquiry and facilitates research, conference travel, and
publication for scholars engaged in any field of disability history.
The Disability History Association is excited to announce its 5th Annual
Outstanding Publication Award. The award alternates between books and
peer-reviewed articles or book chapters.
In 2016 the award committee will accept book submissions. Submissions are
welcome from scholars in all fields who engage in work relating to the
history of disability. Book submissions may have one or multiple authors
and may be a single monograph, or an edited collection, provided the latter
contains new and original scholarship.
Although the award is open to all authors covering all geographic areas and
time periods, the publication must be in English, and must have a
publication date within the two years preceding the submission date (i.e.
1/1/2014 – 5/1/2016). If your book was published in 2014 or 2015, or it
will be published in the first four months of 2016, your book is eligible
for the prize.
The amount of the award is $600.
All submissions should be sent to the award committee care of Michael
Rembis no later than May 1, 2016.
Authors should arrange for five (5) copies of the book to be sent directly
to the award committee at: Michael Rembis, Department of History,
University at Buffalo, 552 Park Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-4130. Submissions
should also be sent in a format compatible with screen reading software,
such as a .doc file or a text-based .pdf to marembis@buffalo.edu.
In the interest of modeling best practices in the field of disability
studies, we require that the publisher/author provide an electronic copy in
text-based .pdf or .doc file format for the review committee. We understand
that copyright rules apply, and we will only use the electronic copy for
the purposes of the DHA Outstanding Publication Award. Manuscripts not
provided in accessible electronic formats for screen reading software in a
timely manner will not be considered for the prize.
The Disability History Association board will announce the recipient of the
DHA Outstanding Publication Award in September 2016.
Sunday, December 06, 2015
Wheelchair Costumes in the Cardboard Art Show
Over the past few years, I've made my son some cardboard costumes for his Quickie2 wheelchair. There are some advantages to using old boxes for this purpose--lightweight, cheap, easy to find, and easy to cut and spraypaint and puncture and duct-tape. They're pretty much flat, so he doesn't feel enclosed, and they can fit in the back of our minivan. If he bends or tears any parts, it's not a big deal, we just add more duct-tape or cardboard. They've been fun, he's won some costume contests with them, and they make people smile.
What I wasn't expecting was that they'd find a place as art. The "Steampunk Submarine" costume was in the Opulent Mobility show at Northridge in September, curated by A. Laura Brody, Zeina Baltagi, and Anthony Tusler; we attended the opening reception to show it in action. And now the submarine and the "Rocketship to Jupiter" are in the Cardboard Art Show at Artist & Craftsman Supply in downtown Los Angeles, curated by Madison Girifalco, opening tomorrow:
What I wasn't expecting was that they'd find a place as art. The "Steampunk Submarine" costume was in the Opulent Mobility show at Northridge in September, curated by A. Laura Brody, Zeina Baltagi, and Anthony Tusler; we attended the opening reception to show it in action. And now the submarine and the "Rocketship to Jupiter" are in the Cardboard Art Show at Artist & Craftsman Supply in downtown Los Angeles, curated by Madison Girifalco, opening tomorrow:
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| Photo by Madison Girifalco; faux brick wall next to staircase, with words "The Cardboard Art Show" and several large pieces of cardboard art mounted upon it, including a rocketship and a submarine. |
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Christine la Barraque (c1878-1961), and more new disability content on Wikipedia
Hey! A new post at DSTU.
As I've mentioned, in recent years I've been putting some energy into Wikipedia. I like writing new entries there, because it feels like that's going to reach a much bigger audience than a journal article or a paywalled reference. And, as part of WikiProject Disability, some of my entries are about disability topics (of course). Since last BADD in May, I've started new entries for baseball coach Mary Dobkin, businessman Dwight D. Guilfoil Jr., South African activist Maria Rantho, wheelchair manufacturers Everest & Jennings, blind biochemist Dilworth Wayne Woolley, playground builders Shane's Inspiration, and blind singer/lawyer Christine la Barraque. I also built out an existing stub entry on educator Elizabeth E. Farrell, during the "Justin Dart Jr. Virtual Edit-a-thon 2015" in August.
None of these are exhaustive entries; they're a good solid start, I think, but if anyone reading this blogpost has more to add, with reliable sources to back up any new information, please jump in! Christine la Barraque has me especially curious right now (because I just wrote about her on Friday). She seems, pretty definitely, to have been the first blind woman to pass the bar in California; but was she the first in any state (as some sources suggest)? Was she the first blind woman to graduate from the University of California, in 1896 (when she was about 18 years old, by the way)? Anytime "the first" is on the table, there are questions and complications: who counts as blind? or graduating? or a woman? La Barraque was said to have been born in France, but exactly where is sketchy and mentions contradict each other. If she was, her parents came to America with a blind child, through immigration screens intended to prevent that scenario. So I would love to know more about them, too. (I think they lived in Tres Pinos or Paicines, California--when she was living in Boston at the time of the San Francisco earthquake, she sent a telegram to the governor of California asking after "my people in Tres Pinos.")
La Barraque wasn't an obscure singer or advocate; she performed for Helen Keller and Mark Twain, she was a founder and president of the San Francisco Workers for the Blind, she testified before the Massachusetts Legislature, she toured blind schools in Italy, she performed all over the US and apparently also in Canada. I've seen mentions of her working with disabled veterans after both World Wars, but not enough to include in the entry (yet).
As I've mentioned, in recent years I've been putting some energy into Wikipedia. I like writing new entries there, because it feels like that's going to reach a much bigger audience than a journal article or a paywalled reference. And, as part of WikiProject Disability, some of my entries are about disability topics (of course). Since last BADD in May, I've started new entries for baseball coach Mary Dobkin, businessman Dwight D. Guilfoil Jr., South African activist Maria Rantho, wheelchair manufacturers Everest & Jennings, blind biochemist Dilworth Wayne Woolley, playground builders Shane's Inspiration, and blind singer/lawyer Christine la Barraque. I also built out an existing stub entry on educator Elizabeth E. Farrell, during the "Justin Dart Jr. Virtual Edit-a-thon 2015" in August.
None of these are exhaustive entries; they're a good solid start, I think, but if anyone reading this blogpost has more to add, with reliable sources to back up any new information, please jump in! Christine la Barraque has me especially curious right now (because I just wrote about her on Friday). She seems, pretty definitely, to have been the first blind woman to pass the bar in California; but was she the first in any state (as some sources suggest)? Was she the first blind woman to graduate from the University of California, in 1896 (when she was about 18 years old, by the way)? Anytime "the first" is on the table, there are questions and complications: who counts as blind? or graduating? or a woman? La Barraque was said to have been born in France, but exactly where is sketchy and mentions contradict each other. If she was, her parents came to America with a blind child, through immigration screens intended to prevent that scenario. So I would love to know more about them, too. (I think they lived in Tres Pinos or Paicines, California--when she was living in Boston at the time of the San Francisco earthquake, she sent a telegram to the governor of California asking after "my people in Tres Pinos.")
La Barraque wasn't an obscure singer or advocate; she performed for Helen Keller and Mark Twain, she was a founder and president of the San Francisco Workers for the Blind, she testified before the Massachusetts Legislature, she toured blind schools in Italy, she performed all over the US and apparently also in Canada. I've seen mentions of her working with disabled veterans after both World Wars, but not enough to include in the entry (yet).
Friday, May 01, 2015
BADD 2015: Wikipedia Against Disablism, Part 2
Ahem. Hello? Hello?
Okay, I'm here for BADD 2015, because how could I break our ten-year streak of participation? I couldn't. I'm not so much of a blogger these days, but I'm willing to add my bit to the big event. For our past nine appearances in the series:
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006. (For the record, the 2007 and 2008 entries are two of my favorite blog posts I've ever written, on any blog, or any topic. BADD has been good for me.)
Last year I wrote about why Wikipedia needs more and better content on disability topics, and how anyone can help; and how that fights disablism, by shifting language, removing cliches, decreasing melodrama, respecting personhood, perhaps in small ways, but for a big diverse audience that will never see your blog or your journal article. I'm still pretty involved there, and in the past year I've found more ways to discover stories to improve Wikipedia's disability content; so I'm still preaching that same sermon today.
But first:
That headline didn't actually have anything to do with disability or discrimination, but I was still startled to see the word "Ableism" appear in a newspaper from over a century ago! I found this because I acquired a Newspapers.com subscription through The Wikipedia Library, a project that matches experienced Wikipedia editors with scholarly resources that aren't always available for off-campus folks. So far it's been extremely useful, and hardly a day passes without finding something fascinating. Like the tidbit above.
One of the ways I'm using searchable old newspapers like this is to find the disability stories that are hiding, that are lost, that we forgot, that we need to remember. Not all of them made the big national papers, but they survive in local dailies, and sometimes there's plenty to meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability and reliable sources, and start a new entry. Maybe everyone knows about Helen Keller, or thinks they do, enough to put her on US currency (again). But there are so many others worth learning about! Some American biographical examples, from recent wanderings on Wikipedia or in old US newspapers:
1. Eliza Suggs (1876-1908): "Carried in arms or wheeled about in a carriage, her frail hands and well developed head have accomplished wonders, obtaining a fair education, which makes her a valuable assistant, sometimes as secretary of religious organizations and work. In former years she assisted her father, more or less, in evangelistic work, and she has presided in public meetings with marked dignity and ability." Suggs was born in Illinois, to parents who met while they were enslaved on a Mississippi plantation; she had osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), and was a temperance activist alongside her preacher father, and later on her own. I didn't write this entry but I'm glad somebody did. Here's her memoir online, along with a photo of Miss Suggs (above, right).
2. Anita Lee Blair (1916-2010) was the first blind woman to serve in any US state legislature. I wrote about her on DSTU a few years ago, and finally got her Wikipedia entry started earlier this year. I found a campaign ad of hers from 1952 in a Texas newspaper recently, too, featuring her guide dog Fawn, and text proclaiming her achievements and her independence.
3. Elizabeth Layton (1909-1993) was an artist based in Kansas who found her art late in life, in a drawing class she took at age 68, hoping it would help with her lifelong struggles with depression, and with more acute grief following the death of her son. It did help, and it also brought her national acclaim: in 1992 she was the focus of a show at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art. I started her Wikipedia entry last week. At left, a 1981 drawing by Elizabeth Layton, titled "Fear." (Were you expecting sentimental art from an old lady? Her drawings were edgy, even controversial.)
4. Dwight D. Guilfoil Jr. (1926-1989) was a businessman and a disabled veteran, who advocated for hiring disabled workers, and used his own company to demonstrate the possibilities. Guilfoil doesn't have a Wikipedia entry yet, but I think he'd be a great candidate for one. For now, check out an essay he wrote titled "Let's Stop 'Handicapping' Americans," which appeared in syndication, in newspapers across the US, in 1960.
UPDATE (February 2016): Dwight D. Guilfoil Jr. has a wikipedia entry now.
5. Mary Dobkin (1902-1987) was a immigrant child in Baltimore when she lost both feet to frostbite as a little girl. This early experience, and a lifelong love of baseball, made her a tireless advocate for poor kids in her adopted city; she coached kids' teams, integrated during the Jim Crow era, and took particular interest in providing sports opportunities for disabled kids. There was a television movie made about her in 1979, but until today, no Wikipedia entry. So I'll get right on that.
By the end of today, California time, there will be a new Wikipedia entry on Mary Dobkin, in honor of BADD 2015. (I'll light up her name as a link when the entry is up.) Anyone want to join in? Plenty of other stories to tell, and every well-told story helps.
Okay, I'm here for BADD 2015, because how could I break our ten-year streak of participation? I couldn't. I'm not so much of a blogger these days, but I'm willing to add my bit to the big event. For our past nine appearances in the series:
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006. (For the record, the 2007 and 2008 entries are two of my favorite blog posts I've ever written, on any blog, or any topic. BADD has been good for me.)
Last year I wrote about why Wikipedia needs more and better content on disability topics, and how anyone can help; and how that fights disablism, by shifting language, removing cliches, decreasing melodrama, respecting personhood, perhaps in small ways, but for a big diverse audience that will never see your blog or your journal article. I'm still pretty involved there, and in the past year I've found more ways to discover stories to improve Wikipedia's disability content; so I'm still preaching that same sermon today.
But first:
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| Headline from a 1910 Aberdeen Herald newspaper, from Aberdeen, Washington, reads "Ableism the Issue; All Others Sunk into Insignificance in this County; All kinds of Diversions are Attempted by the Abel Press, but are not Successful. What is Abel Spending So Much Money For?" From Newspapers.com |
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| Eliza Suggs (1876-1908), temperance activist |
One of the ways I'm using searchable old newspapers like this is to find the disability stories that are hiding, that are lost, that we forgot, that we need to remember. Not all of them made the big national papers, but they survive in local dailies, and sometimes there's plenty to meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability and reliable sources, and start a new entry. Maybe everyone knows about Helen Keller, or thinks they do, enough to put her on US currency (again). But there are so many others worth learning about! Some American biographical examples, from recent wanderings on Wikipedia or in old US newspapers:
1. Eliza Suggs (1876-1908): "Carried in arms or wheeled about in a carriage, her frail hands and well developed head have accomplished wonders, obtaining a fair education, which makes her a valuable assistant, sometimes as secretary of religious organizations and work. In former years she assisted her father, more or less, in evangelistic work, and she has presided in public meetings with marked dignity and ability." Suggs was born in Illinois, to parents who met while they were enslaved on a Mississippi plantation; she had osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), and was a temperance activist alongside her preacher father, and later on her own. I didn't write this entry but I'm glad somebody did. Here's her memoir online, along with a photo of Miss Suggs (above, right).
2. Anita Lee Blair (1916-2010) was the first blind woman to serve in any US state legislature. I wrote about her on DSTU a few years ago, and finally got her Wikipedia entry started earlier this year. I found a campaign ad of hers from 1952 in a Texas newspaper recently, too, featuring her guide dog Fawn, and text proclaiming her achievements and her independence.
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| "Fear" (1981) by Elizabeth Layton; a drawing of an older woman peeking out from a closet with a fearful expression |
3. Elizabeth Layton (1909-1993) was an artist based in Kansas who found her art late in life, in a drawing class she took at age 68, hoping it would help with her lifelong struggles with depression, and with more acute grief following the death of her son. It did help, and it also brought her national acclaim: in 1992 she was the focus of a show at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art. I started her Wikipedia entry last week. At left, a 1981 drawing by Elizabeth Layton, titled "Fear." (Were you expecting sentimental art from an old lady? Her drawings were edgy, even controversial.)
4. Dwight D. Guilfoil Jr. (1926-1989) was a businessman and a disabled veteran, who advocated for hiring disabled workers, and used his own company to demonstrate the possibilities. Guilfoil doesn't have a Wikipedia entry yet, but I think he'd be a great candidate for one. For now, check out an essay he wrote titled "Let's Stop 'Handicapping' Americans," which appeared in syndication, in newspapers across the US, in 1960.
UPDATE (February 2016): Dwight D. Guilfoil Jr. has a wikipedia entry now.
5. Mary Dobkin (1902-1987) was a immigrant child in Baltimore when she lost both feet to frostbite as a little girl. This early experience, and a lifelong love of baseball, made her a tireless advocate for poor kids in her adopted city; she coached kids' teams, integrated during the Jim Crow era, and took particular interest in providing sports opportunities for disabled kids. There was a television movie made about her in 1979, but until today, no Wikipedia entry. So I'll get right on that.
By the end of today, California time, there will be a new Wikipedia entry on Mary Dobkin, in honor of BADD 2015. (I'll light up her name as a link when the entry is up.) Anyone want to join in? Plenty of other stories to tell, and every well-told story helps.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Disability at AAG [Assn. of American Geographers] April 21 - 25, 2015
This is the AAG Disability Specialty Group featured session, right before the business meeting at the AAG Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois (April 21-25, 2015). Mike
1177 Questioning geography’s ‘healthy subject’ I: Geography and Mental Health
(Sponsored by Disability Specialty Group, Cultural Geography Specialty Group, Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group )
Friday, April 24, 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 p.m.
Room: Grand E/F, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level (Panel Session)
Disability Specialty Group annual business meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Assoc. of American Geographers will be held Friday, April 24 in Hyatt East, room Columbus EF. Meeting starts at 11:50am and runs to 1:10pm
Searched by Keyword: disabilit
Tuesday
The Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Emergency
Planning. 4/21/2015 at 14:40 PM
'Undue Burden': Disabled People, Immigration and the Politics of (Im)mobility 4/21/2015 at 14:40 PM
'Undue Burden': Disabled People, Immigration and the Politics of (Im)mobility 4/21/2015 at 14:40 PM
Wednesday
Plain Language Mapping: Rethinking the Participatory Geoweb
to Include Users with Intellectual Disabilities, 4/22/2015 at 8:00 AM
The Double Condition: Intersections of Internal Displacement
and Physical Disability in Colombian Urban Centers 4/22/2015
at 10:00 AM
The Use of VGI in Enhancing Pedestrian Accessibility and the Quality Assurance of Location-Based Data 4/22/2015 at 15:20 PM
The Use of VGI in Enhancing Pedestrian Accessibility and the Quality Assurance of Location-Based Data 4/22/2015 at 15:20 PM
Thursday
Disability, Mobility and ICT - Empty Promises or Ways to
Inclusive Solutions? 4/23/2015 at 13:20 PM
Contours of Disability in America 4/23/2015 at 13:20 PM
Contours of Disability in America 4/23/2015 at 13:20 PM
Friday
Disability in America: Rural-Urban Differences in Spatial and Mobility Patterns 4/24/2015 at 13:20 PM
Learning to live again: Multiple presents and the becoming of disability Saturday, 4/25/2015 at 8:00 AM
Disability in America: Rural-Urban Differences in Spatial and Mobility Patterns 4/24/2015 at 13:20 PM
Learning to live again: Multiple presents and the becoming of disability Saturday, 4/25/2015 at 8:00 AM
Search by Keyword: blind
Friday
Tactile Earth: Teaching and Accommodating Blind
Students in Introduction to Physical Geography 4/24/2015 at 8:00 AM
Search by Keyword: deaf
Friday
Accessing the spaces of justice in Ireland; critical
perspectives from Deaf victims of crime 4/24/2015 at 13:20 PM
Lost Spaces - where do deaf people go to be deaf in the UK? 4/24/2015
at 13:20 PM
Mobilities and Geographies of Deaf Youth in Turkey, 4/24/2015 at 13:20 PM
Productions of Deaf Spaces within a Finland-Swedish context - a minority in diaspora 4/24/2015 at 13:20 PM
Mobilities and Geographies of Deaf Youth in Turkey, 4/24/2015 at 13:20 PM
Productions of Deaf Spaces within a Finland-Swedish context - a minority in diaspora 4/24/2015 at 13:20 PM
Upstairs and downstairs: a Deaf church's tale 4/24/2015
at 17:20 PM
A Taxonomy of SLP Spaces: a scalar framework. 4/24/2015 at 17:20 PM
'Doing Deaf': Mapping the performative spaces of Brighton and Hove city 4/24/2015 at 17:20 PM
The Agency of Deaf space; Anglicanism, philanthropy and the London Deaf church in the 19th century. 4/24/2015 at 17:20 PM
A Taxonomy of SLP Spaces: a scalar framework. 4/24/2015 at 17:20 PM
'Doing Deaf': Mapping the performative spaces of Brighton and Hove city 4/24/2015 at 17:20 PM
The Agency of Deaf space; Anglicanism, philanthropy and the London Deaf church in the 19th century. 4/24/2015 at 17:20 PM
Searched by Keyword: mental heal
Tuesday
Places sit in bodies: Capitalist food regimes at the
cellular level 4/21/2015 at 8:00 AM
Does Socially-Mixed Housing Redevelopment "Work"? The Case of Toronto's Regent Park 4/21/2015 at 14:40 PM
Does Socially-Mixed Housing Redevelopment "Work"? The Case of Toronto's Regent Park 4/21/2015 at 14:40 PM
The Asylum is on These Streets: Managing Mental
Illness in the Carceral Community 4/21/2015 at 16:40 PM
Wednesday
Geographic Accessibility and Barriers to Addiction, Mental
Health, and HIV/AIDS Health Care Services for Opioid Dependent Clients 4/22/2015
at 13:20 PM
What Best Predicts Addiction Treatment Completion: The
Influence of Client Factors and Rural, Suburban, and Urban Treatment Facility
Location 4/22/2015 at 13:20
Thursday
PM.
Transforming the environmental health paradigm through
climate justice work: popular education and place-making in the Scottish
Central Belt, 4/23/2015 at 10:00 AM
Mobilities of Madness: Interurban spatial movement among a
cohort of homeless individuals with co-occurring mental health issues 4/23/2015
at 15:20 PM.
Saturday
Crowd mapping mental health promotion through the Thought Spot project 4/25/2015 at 8:00 AM
Housing First houses but does not end poverty: Stories from Winnipeg 4/25/2015 at 8:00 AM
A working recovery? Psychiatric consumers, paid employment and 'Other' mental health geographies 4/25/2015 at 8:00 AM
Crowd mapping mental health promotion through the Thought Spot project 4/25/2015 at 8:00 AM
Housing First houses but does not end poverty: Stories from Winnipeg 4/25/2015 at 8:00 AM
A working recovery? Psychiatric consumers, paid employment and 'Other' mental health geographies 4/25/2015 at 8:00 AM
Search by Keyword: accessibility
Tuesday
Measuring Spatial Disparities in Disadvantaged
Populations: A Literature Review of Individual Space-Time Accessibility 4/21/2015 at 8:00 AM
Wednesday
Geographic Accessibility and Barriers to Addiction,
Mental Health, and HIV/AIDS Health Care Services for Opioid Dependent Clients 4/22/2015 at 13:20 PM
Geocrowdsourcing and Accessibility for
Mobility-impaired Individuals at Dynamic Environments 4/22/2015 at 15:20 PM
Thursday
Geographies of Health Care in South Korea: Measuring
Spatial Accessibility to Public Health Care Facilities in the Seoul
Metropolitan Region
4/23/2015 at 8:00 AM
Patterns in Non-visual Map Reading: Stylus-based
Interaction with an Auditory GIS 4/23/2015 at 13:20 PM
Friday
Parks for all: Information on accessibility and
associated experiences. 4/24/2015 at 17:20 PM
Exploring Transportation Accessibility to Health Care
Among Vermont's Rural Seniors not
scheduled yet
Search by Keyword: chronic disease
Wednesday
The development and validation of national liveability
indicators: linking geography, urban policy, chronic disease risk factors and
health outcomes in Australia 4/22/2015
at 17:20 PM
Search by Keyword: elderly, dementia, Alzheimer
Wednesday
Visual and Material Home Making in Transnational Alzheimer's
Care 4/22/2015
at 10:00 AM
The Geographies of Mortality Attributed to Alzheimer's
Disease in the contiguous United States from 2000 to 2008 4/22/2015 at 10:00 AM
Older People's Perceptions of Elderly Dining Services
in China 4/22/2015 at 13:20 PM
Thursday
Intra-person and inter-person interactions in daily
activity participation in elderly co-residence households 4/23/2015 at 10:00 AM
Qualitative GIS for dementia friendly environments:
Illuminating spatial perspectives 4/23/2015 at 13:20 PM.
Should I stay or should I go? Housing preferences upon
retirement in Germany 4/23/2015 at 15:20 PM
Identifying local blind spots of medical care service
for the impoverished elderly by mapping a local accessibility measure 4/23/2015 at 17:20 PM
Friday
The association between preventable hospitalizations
and geographic access to health care for elderly in South Texas 4/24/2015 at 17:20 PM
Saturday
Constraining care: Caring for persons with dementia in
rural Ontario, Canada 4/25/2015 at 10:00 AM
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