Disability Culture: A Decade of Change
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A reflection on the life of David Pfeiffer, why the Center on Disability Studies decided to begin this journal, and what we hope to achieve with it, leading into a forum about disability culture.
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Steven E. Brown, Co-Founder, Institute on Disability Culture
STEVEN E. BROWN, co-founder, Institute on Disability Culture, and Resident Scholar at the Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa earned a doctorate in history in 1981 at the University of Oklahoma. Brown's most recent publication, Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars: Essays on the Journey from Disability Shame to Disability Pride (People with Disabilities Press, 2003), joins dozens of articles and five previous monographs about disability, including Independent Living: Theory and Practice and Freedom of Movement: Independent Living History and Philosophy. Also an award-winning poet, Brown has published six books of poetry, including Dragonflies In Paradise: An Activist’s Partial Poetic Autobiography; and Pain, Plain--And Fancy Rappings: Poetry from the Disability Culture.