Ableism
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Ableism is discrimination and social prejudice against disabled people. Ableism characterizes people as being defined by their disabilities and also classifies disabled people as being inferior to non
A poster of the British suffrage movement, attacking the fact that women were placed next to "lunatics" and convicts in being unable to vote. Ableist and eugenicist ideas were often found in suffrage rhetoric.
Disability
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Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. Disabilities may be cognitive, develop
Ableism
…known as ablism, disablism [in British English], anapirophobia, anapirism, and disability discrimination) is discrimination and social prejudice against disabled people. Ableism characterizes people as being defined by their disabilities and also classifies disabled people as being inferior to non-disabled people…
Windover Archeological Site, location of the 15-year-old with spina bifida who was taken care of in a hunter-gather community
A sign in Taiwan showing a wheelchair accessibility ramp
Museum of disABILITY History, Buffalo, New York
A 28-year-old Iraqi woman who lost both of her legs during the Iraq War in 2005