Applications are now open for the third cohort for the summer 2025 hybrid Disability Studies workshop for disabled activists, artists, cultural producers, filmmakers, and academics! Enrich your practice as a scholar-activist, gain new connections and mentorship, and deepen your relationship with disability studies!
Inside a small room with poster-clad walls, a psychology lab at Oregon State University is making big strides in disability research.
For a discipline that seeks to understand the experiences of up to one-in-four Americans and 1.3 billion people worldwide, there is a glaring lack of disability education on Harvard’s campus.
When SU’s School of Education established its Disability Studies program 30 years ago in 1994, it was the first of its kind nationally.
UCLA is the first in the UC to offer a degree in disability studies, which was launched this fall.
June 9, 2019. Ali Stroker wins Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. An actor, singer, and wheelchair user, Ali Stroker has been a trailblazer for disability representation on the stage. She was the first wheelchair user to graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts Drama Department at New York University. In 2015, she was the first wheelchair user to appear on Broadway, starring as Anna in the musical, Spring Awakening. For her performance as Ado Annie Carnes in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma!, Stroker became the first wheelchair user to win a Tony Award in 2019.
Being Young and Disabled
By Noah Griffth, Auburn University
I Was a "Student of Concern"
By Kate Jackson, Rutgers University
In My Moment of Distress
By Anonymous, Temple University