Our History, Our Culture, Our Pride
Disability Websites
The following is a list of websites that I think are cool and informative. They are diverse, intense and some are a bit edgy. These websites all have links that are well worth checking out.
Welcome to www.disabledandproud.com where we say it loud, we're DISABLED AND PROUD! On this website, you will find information on Disability history, culture, and community.
What is Ouch?
Ouch is a website from the BBC that reflects the lives and experiences of disabled people. It has regular columns, features, quizzes, a monthly near-cult podcast, a blog or two and a community messageboard amongst other stuff. All contributors, well, 99% of them, are disabled - and Ouch's editorial team is rather wonky and deserve big fat special diversity badges too.
The National Minorities with Disabilities Coalition (NMDC), a 501(c)3 organization, is a national response to the need for Minorities with Disabilities in America to organize around issues of mutual concern and use our collective strength to address disability issues from all communities of color. NMDC's goals are to promote EQUITY in all aspects of the disability movement, EXCELLENCE in community service, and OPPORTUNITY for all people with disabilities.
http://www.mouthmag.com/home.htm
Mouth brings the conversation down to street level, where well-intentioned "special" programs wreak havoc in the lives of ordinary people. People talk about calling a spade a spade. We call Jack Kevorkian a serial killer. And when maggots outnumber nurses' aides at what others call a "care facility," we call it a hellhole. We say it out loud: if special education is so darned special, every kid in every school ought to have the benefit of it.
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/
This website offers thousands of articles about disability.
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org
Eugenics was, quite literally, an effort to breed better human beings – by encouraging the reproduction of people with "good" genes and discouraging those with "bad" genes. Eugenicists effectively lobbied for social legislation to keep racial and ethnic groups separate, to restrict immigration from southern and eastern Europe, and to sterilize people considered "genetically unfit.
We now invite you to experience the unfiltered story of American eugenics – primarily through materials from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, which was the center of American eugenics research from 1910-1940.
The Disability History Project is a community history project and we welcome your participation. This is an opportunity for disabled people to reclaim our history and determine how we want to define ourselves and our struggles. People with disabilities have an exciting and rich history that should be shared with the world.
http://www.fire.or.cr/disabilities/notas/dis-home.htm
WELCOME to the FIRE web space focusing on women with disabilities! Here we cover activism, opportunities, rights and issues important to women with all types of disabilities.
We're very excited about it and want to encourage you to write to us and let us know what you think. Also feel free to send us ideas for interviews and stories, as well as interviews that you have already recorded on tape or digital media. Our initial effort is in English, but we plan to expand this section for the Spanish website, as well as other languages.
http://www.straightaheadpictures.org/beyond-affliction/intr_pre.html
Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project is a four hour documentary radio series about the shared experience of people with disabilities and their families since the beginning of the 19th century.
http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/
Our Mission is to promote understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities recovering, chronicling, and interpreting their stories
And we mustn’t forget the queen of Gnarly……..
Disability Culture Rap
http://www.tell-us-your-story.com/culturerap1.html