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
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
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
Disability
…law—though there are still political issues that enable or advance the oppression of disabled people. Although disability activism serves to dismantle ableist systems, social norms relating to the perception of disabilities are often reinforced by tropes used by the media. Since negative perceptions of…
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.