SUPPLEMENTAL RESOURCES ON
ABLEISM FOR “NORMAL AGAIN”
Below is a cornucopia of links and resources.
*Scoobs, please note that while I think they’re great, your mileage may vary with any or all of these accounts, organizations, or readings.
*If you know an organization, account, reading, film, podcast, etc that isn’t on the list, please reach out & let us know!
KEY:
🙌 = Sarah Duncan has spent a *lot* of time with this person’s work, organization, or resource, and she extra highly recommends it.💊 = This is a rad organization/person/resource that is, at least in some way, still connected to the medical model of (dis)ability than others on the list. If you’re looking specifically for resources that are not connected to psychiatric or medical approaches to mental illness, avoid this one.
🙅 = This is an organization/person/resource that is more explicitly against the medical model of (dis)ability than others. If you’re looking specifically for radical resources that are still pro psychiatry and medication, avoid this one.
Follow & Support
Instagram Accounts - Individuals
Rose Parker @psychosispositivity
Mackenzie Carroll @my_life_with_psychosis
Shira - Psychosis Diaries @psychosis_diaries
Michelle Hammer @schizophrenic.nyc
Cecilia A. McGough @cecilia_mcgough
Kendra - Criminalized/Mentally Ill @criminalizedmentallyill
Leroy Moore, Kriphop Nation @blackkrip
Timotheus Gordon Jr. @blackautist
Alice Wong @disability_visibility 🙌
Patty Berne @patty_berne
Imani Barbarin @crutches_and_spice
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @leahlakshmiwrites 🙌
Barry Lee @barryleeart
Mia Mingus @mia.mingus 🙌
Kay Ulanday Barrett @brownroundboi
Liat Ben-Moshe @decarcerating.disability
Jess @queervengeance
Instagram Accounts - Organizations, Collectives, Communities, and Funds
Students With Psychosis @studentswithpsychosis 🙌
Fireweed Collective @fireweedcollectivehj 🙌
Black Disability Collective @blackdisabilitycollective
Disabled Latinx Movement @disabledlatinx
The Autisticats @the.autisticats
Autistic People of Color Fund @autisticpocfund
Casual Ableism @casualableism
Sins Invalid @sinsinvalid 🙌
Disability Justice Culture Club @disabilityjusticecultureclub
CripJoy @cripjoy
Project Let’s @projectlets
Black Emotional and Mental Health Care Collective (BEAM) @beamorg
International OCD Foundation @iocdf
Red Bay Coffee @redbaycoffee
Website - This is a Black-owned coffee shop that intentionally hires disabled people, as well as formerly incarcerated people and other oppressed communities.
Other Websites
Read
Books
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure by Eli Clare 🙌
Disability Media Studies edited by Elizabeth Ellcessor and Bill Kirkpatrick
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer 🙌
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness by Therí Alyce Pickens 🙌
Chronic Youth: Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation by Julie Passanante Elman 🙌
Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People - A Disability Justice Primer by Sins Invalid, second edition (2019)
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan M. Metzl
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition by Liat Ben-Moshe
Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 🙌
Articles
“Ableism 101: What It Is, What It Looks Like, and What We Can Do to Fix It” by Ashley Eisenmenger
“15 Common Phrases That Are Way More Ableist Than You Realize” by Caley Farinas
“Crazy Talk: The Dangerous Rhetoric of Mental Illness” by Jessica Wright 🙌
“Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray: The Toll of Police Violence on Disabled Americans” by Dominic Bradley and Sarah Katz
“The Unacknowledged Crisis of Violence Against Disabled People” by Cameron Morgan
“It’s All the Same Movie”: Code of the Freaks Cracks Hollywood’s Ableist Legacy Wide Open” by S. Duncan
“How Cinema Stigmatises Mental Illness” by Arwa Haider
“3 Ways Popular Horror Movie Tropes Are Ableist” by Kris Nelson
“Scary Asylums Are a Halloween Classic, But It’s Time To Retire the Trope” by Troy Rondinone
“Cuckoo’s Nest” - an explanation of the “Cuckoo’s Nest” trope in television
“Why Disability Representation Matters (And Not Just in the Media)” by Gabe Moses 🙌
“Voices of Disability” - This is a curated collection of writings by disabled authors
“We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health” by editors at Mad in America 🙅
Mapping Our Paths Toward Liberation by Disability Lead, featuring: Rebecca Cokley, Candace Coleman, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Lydia X.Z. Brown, Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán, and Danyelle Solomon.
“Changing the Framework: Disability Justice” by Mia Mingus
Zines
Trauma Magic by Clementine Morrigan
Madness and Oppression: Paths to Personal Transformation & Collective Liberation (A Mad Maps Guide) by The Icarus Project
Listen
Podcasts
Single Episodes
Watch
Crip Camp (Netflix) 🙌
Code of the Freaks (Amazon Prime, Youtube, Vudu, Google Play) 🙌
My Body Doesn’t Oppress Me, Society Does (Stacey Milbern and Patty Berne in conversation)
No Body is Disposable: A Video Series
& Because We Could All Use a Little Extra Support
This website (called “You Feel Like Shit”) is an interactive experience that walks you through caring for yourself and taking care of necessities. 🙌