Accessibility Queen's

Intersectionality and active identification.

An exclusive interview with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson was conducted with AQ member Yasmine Kanso.

The professor here explains how she used Feminist theory in Disability studies to represent people with disabilities as an identity category, just like how women are a gender identity.
Reminder: Ableism is also a feminist issue.
Disability awareness should be present everyday of the year!
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Disability Awareness should be present every day of the year!

An exclusive interview with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson was conducted with AQ member Yasmine Kanso. In this video, she explains the reason why she continues to do the work that she does no matter what. To fight ableism, we need to stay motivated and driven to do so, without listening to words of discouragement. After years of being surrounded by people from a Humanities field, the professor was perceived as a person with a disability, and also as an educator, writer, and humanist. But when she entered the field of medical science, she was immediately taken as a patient. RGT talks about being given a token “patient” position when she was invited to a panel to discuss the gene-editing tool CRISPR. The ableism in this medical environment was disturbing, but it is a useful place to argue for Disabled lives.

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Disability Awareness should be present every day of the year!
An exclusive interview with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson was conducted with AQ member Yasmine Kanso. Garland-Thomson has dedicated many years of work to develop what we now call disability studies, “When I first started, it was news to people!” she says.

For those who may not know her, in this video, she talks about her work and her recent projects!For the past 20 years, her “knowledge and field-building” work has mainly been in the Humanities field, as she was also an English professor.

When she was first doing work in an academic field of higher education, she used feminist theory, gender studies, and critical race theory and she turned it around to talk about disabilities.
She is also one of the writers of a series for the New York Times called “About us”, for disabled and non-disabled people by disabled people!

But over the recent years, she has brought forward the arguments around eugenics, and she explains why “we should have Disabled people in the world, in the workplace, in places of privilege, resource, and acquisition”. The bioethicist shares her work in the hopes of seeking more ways to uplift Disabled lives. Therefore, she has recently been focusing more on transforming medical science and healthcare ethics.

The answers will be divided into a series with empowering advice and valuable information. The series of answers will be posted every day this week! Stay tuned and stay safe!