Origin of the term comes from an area called the "sociology of knowledge" that looks at the social processes that influence how people know what they know
e.g. the church, money, college degree, etc
* Low vision, dyslexia, chronic pain, sleep disorders, diabetes, autism * what about: homosexuality? near-sightedness? * WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) * 27% of Canadian adults reported having a disability (more than 10 million people)
Disability is incredibly stigmatized, and as such there is a lot of language that is seen to build on or reinforce that stigmatization
Disability is marginalized and stigmatized in virtually every dimension of social life (note: comorbidiuties include “caffeine dependence”, “anxiety”, “insomnia”, “headaches”, “fatigue”, “restlessness”,…)
Image from the 504 sit-in -- a series of protests in which disabled people took over federal buildings, notably teh San Francisco federal building where Judy Heumann and Kitty Cone helped organize >150 people to occupy for 26 days. Wide solidarity from other groups like Black Panthers.
Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad (2017)