Exploring Disability as an Identity with Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
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English - November 06, 2023 05:00 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsSociety & Culture Education academia academic brilliant college intellectual pbk phibetakappa researchers scholars smart Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a disability justice and cultural thought leader, bioethicist, educator, and humanities scholar. Garland-Thomson grew up with a congenital disability, an experience that highlighted the barriers that exist for people with disabilities. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement and hearing the narratives from Black authors for the first time, the disability pioneer explores the perspectives of disabled people in all aspects of society. In this insightful conversation, Garland-Thomson discusses the destructive idea of normal, the reality that most people will become disabled at one point in their lives, and the ways that barriers create social categories for people with disabilities.