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WHAT WE MEAN
BY DISABILITY CULTURE
People with disabilities have forged a group identity. We share a common
history of oppression and a common bond of resilience. We generate
art, music, literature, and other expressions of our lives and our culture,
infused from our experience of disability. Most importantly, we are proud of
ourselves as people with disabilities. We claim our disabilities with pride
as part of our identity. We are who we are: we are people with disabilities.
Steven E. Brown, MAINSTREAM MAGAZINE, 1996
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If you make a purchase from any of the merchants in the Mall, the Institute on Disability Culture, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, will receive a percentage of the sale. Thanks for your support!
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LILLIAN GONZALES BROWN, Disabilities Scholar at the University of Hawaii and Co-Founder, Institute on Disability Culture, is an internationally renowned trainer in independent living, advocacy, personal assistance, civil rights, sexuality, peer support, public policy and Disability Culture. Demand for her work has taken her across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Scandinavia.
STEVEN E. BROWN, Assistant Professor and Disabilities Scholar at the Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaii and Co-Founder, Institute on Disability Culture (IDC), earned a doctorate in history from the University of Oklahoma. He directed an independent living center in Oklahoma, organized numerous community coalitions, and served as Training Director at the World Institute on Disability Research and Training Center on Public Policy in Independent Living. He founded the not-for-profit Institute on Disability Culture, with his wife Lillian Gonzales Brown, in 1994. Brown's most recent book is the well-received, MOVIE STARS AND SENSUOUS SCARS: ESSAYS ON THE JOURNEY FROM DISABILITY SHAME TO DISABILITY PRIDE. Other publications, several of which have been translated into other languages, include INDEPENDENT LIVING: THEORY AND PRACTICE; INVESTIGATING A CULTURE OF DISABILITY: FINAL REPORT, the result of a prestigious Switzer Fellowship from the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation and Research of the Department of Education, the first funding for research about Disability Culture; A CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT DISABILITY CULTURE, 2nd Edition; CELEBRATING PASSION, RELENTLESSNESS, AND VISION: THE MANIFESTO EDITORIALS; and six books of poetry, DRAGONFLIES IN PARADISE: AN ACTIVIST'S PARTIAL POETIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY, THE GODDESS APPROACHES FIFTY, JOURNEY HOME: A MIRACLES POETRY, PRAYER AND MEDITATIONS WORKBOOK, LOVE INTO FOREVER: A TRIBUTE TO MARTYRS, HEROES, FRIENDS, AND COLLEAGUES, PAIN, PLAIN--AND FANCY RAPPINGS: POETRY FROM THE DISABILITY CULTURE, and VOYAGES: LIFE JOURNEYS.
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LILLIAN GONZALES BROWN, Founder, Institute on Disability Culture, is an internationally renowned trainer in independent living, advocacy, personal assistance, civil rights, sexuality, peer support, public policy and Disability Culture. Demand for her work takes her across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Scandinavia. She is currently exploring her new home in Honolulu, Hawaii. STEVEN E BROWN, Founder, Institute on Disability Culture (IDC), earned a doctorate in history from the University of Oklahoma. He directed an independent living center in Oklahoma, organized numerous community coalitions, and served as Training Director at the World Institute on Disability Research and Training Center on Public Policy in Independent Living. He founded the not-for-profit Institute on Disability Culture, with his wife Lillian Gonzales Brown, in 1994. Brown's publications, several of which have been translated into other languages, include INDEPENDENT LIVING: THEORY AND PRACTICE; INVESTIGATING A CULTURE OF DISABILITY: FINAL REPORT, the result of a prestigious Switzer Fellowship from the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation and Research of the Department of Education, the first funding for research about Disability Culture; A CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT DISABILITY CULTURE, 2nd Edition; CELEBRATING PASSION, RELENTLESSNESS, AND VISION: THE MANIFESTO EDITORIALS; and six books of poetry, DRAGONFLIES IN PARADISE: AN ACTIVIST'S
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