Devastate/Celebrate
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disability culture, disability history
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A poem written for the 2011 Abled Hawaii Artists celebration of the signing anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which fits well with the presentation, “Power, Pride and the Road to Freedom: What Can We Say about the Americans with Disabilities Act?” made at the 2015 Pacific Rim Conference.
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Steven E. Brown, Co-Founder, Institute on Disability Culture
Historian Steven E. Brown is a retired Professor and Disabilities Scholar, Center on Disability Studies (CDS), University of Hawaii (currently Affiliate Faculty); Co-Founder of the Institute on Disability Culture, and 2015 Diversity and Inclusion Fellow for the Association of University Centers on Excellence in Disabilities (AUCD) Diversity and Inclusion Initiative.
Brown, a former editor of the Review of Disability Studies, has published many articles about disability rights and disability culture and is a national and international speaker. His books include Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars: Essays on the Journey from Disability Shame to Disability Pride and Surprised to be Standing: A Spiritual Journey. Brown relocated to the California Bay Area in 2014, where he continues to write, advocate, and teach. A Middle Grade biography, Ed Roberts: Wheelchair Genius, will be published in 2015. Brown blogs at http://www.instituteondisabilityculture.org/manifesto and is on Twitter @disculture.