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Since 2003, RDS has published over 500 authors from around the world. One of only a handful of peer-reviewed Disability Studies journals in the world, the Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS) is a quarterly online, open-access journal that provides an international forum for people with disabilities, academics, professionals, artists and creators from all backgrounds and expertise to express ideas relevant to our understanding of disability.                                                       

 

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Special Issue on Disability and Film and Media 2022-02-04

The RDS Editorial team is pleased to announce a new Special Issue of Review of Disability Studies on Disability and Film and Media.   The interdisciplinary issue features guest editors Beth Haller and Lawrence Carter-Long, two of the nation's preeminent disability and film and media scholars and contains innovative research and creative work from around the world that looks at the role film and media can play in how we think about disability, and perhaps in helping create more inclusive and equitable spaces.

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Current Issue

Vol. 17 No. 4 (2022): Special Issue: Disability and Film and Media

Text says Superfest Disability Film Festival, and shows the Superfest logo: a nulticolored film reel. Below that a multicolored painting of a filp clapperboard. Below that text says 'Art by Ann Slater, Arc Artist.'

Published: 2022-02-04

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Editorial

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Beth Haller, Lawrence Carter-Long
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Research Articles and Essays

Exploring the Development of Disability Identity by Young Creators on Instagram

Kristen Tollan
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Vernacular Radio Stations and Inclusive Education in marginalized communities in Kenya

John Ndavula, Jackline Lidubwi
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Disability Metaphors and Patriotic-Enlightenment Movement in the Korea Daily News, 1907-1910

Eunyoung Jung
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Temporal drag, radical negativity and the re-articulation of disabled identities in American Horror Story

Alison Wilde
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Multimedia

Review: Code of the Freaks (2020)

Jeffrey Preston
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Towards a Superfest Origin Story

Emily Beitiks
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“More than Medals” sets the stage for Tokyo Paralympics First-of-its-Kind Historical Analysis

Aman Misra, Kara Ayers
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Creative Works

"The Co-Op": Director's Statement

Cameron Mitchell
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Heroic Justice for Quasimodo Through Re-creation

Talia Steinmetz
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Notes from the Field

Conference Announcement: 37th Annual Pacific Rim Conference on Disability & Diversity Held Virtually February 28 & March 1, 2022 HST

Pac Rim Team 2022
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Dissertation & Abstracts v17i4

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The Review of Disability Studies (RDS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal that is targeted towards any person interested in disability studies. We have readers and authors from all over the world. We accept submissions in English of a scholarly nature covering a range of disciplines within disability studies as well as creative works expressing ideas in the area of disability. The RDS journal contains the following sections: 1. Research and Essays; 2. Topical Forums; 3. Creative Works; 4. Global Perspective on Disability Studies; 5. Multi-Media Review; 6. Notes from the Field; 7. Dissertation Abstracts. The journal is published four times a year, and each issue runs approximately 50 pages.