Welcome back to Schauer Thoughts, this week we’re continuing our discussion of the Disability Rights Movement - we’re covering the late 80’s, 90’s, and where we’re at today! There’s so much going on concerning Disability Rights but I hope what’s covered here, as well as all the resources discussed and linked below, fill your soul with some semblance of hope for the future. I do feel incredibly hopeful and I’m also incredibly determined and ready to keep applying pressure to this administration, directly or indirectly (we truly can do both.)
That being said, please also visit this website to stay up to dat on all anti-trans bills currently being introduced across the country.
2026 Anti-Trans Bills Tracker
https://translegislation.com/
Thank you all so much for listening and joining me in this discussion, it’s incredibly important that we remain informed and engaged on all topics concerning civil rights as none of us are free until we are all free.
Also, apologies for the late upload, I have had a lot going on. Thank you for your patience.
Books:
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World - Ben Mattlin
Every Living Creature: How Xenotransplantation Will Change Our Lives - Joshua D. Mezrich, MD
A Silent Fire - Shilpa Revella
Phenology - Theresa M. Crimmins
Most Delicious Poison - Noah Whiteman
Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s- Charles Piller
Frostbite - Nicola Twilley
A History of Transgender Medicine - Carolyn Wolf-Gould, Dallas Denny, Jamison Green, Kyan Lynch, Editors
Sources:
The Movement for Disability Rights and Justice
https://www.aapd.com/movement/
Disability Rights Timeline
https://disabilities.temple.edu/resources/disability-rights-timeline
Medicalization and Social Control - Peter Conrad
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234838406_Medicalization_and_Social_Control
The Shifting Engines of Medicalization
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7869537_The_Shifting_Engines_of_Medicalization
Medicalization and the New Civil Rights
https://review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/Konnoth-72-Stan.-L.-Rev.-1165.pdf
What’s Going on With Disability Programs in the President’s Budget?
https://www.ndrn.org/resource/fy27budgetcuts/
Why Medicaid Matters for Americans Living With Disabilities
https://modernmedicaid.org/why-medicaid-matters-for-americans-living-with-disabilities/
“Abandoned by Border Patrol”: Blind Refugee in Buffalo Dies in the Cold; Family Demands Answers
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/27/nurul_amin_shah_alam
Disability Resources - Employment:
Ability Jobs - Job Board for Disability Talent
https://abilityjobs.com/
National Disability Institute
https://www.nationaldisabilityinstitute.org/
Career One Stop - Career Exploration, Training & Jobs
https://www.careeronestop.org/
Evenbreak - Job Board for Disabled Candidates
https://www.evenbreak.com/
Cambiando Vidas - Organizing Immigrants and Latinx People with Disabilities
https://www.accessliving.org/get-involved/join-a-community-organizing-group/cambiando-vidas/
Disability Solutions
https://www.disabilitytalent.org/
Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
https://askjan.org/a-to-z.cfm
Disability Resources - Research, Legal, Caregiving
New Disabled South
https://newdisabledsouth.org/
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
https://dredf.org/
Center for Parent Information & Resources
https://www.parentcenterhub.org/
The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy
https://heller.brandeis.edu/lurie/about/index.html
The Sick Times
https://thesicktimes.org/
CARE - Caring Across Generations Network
https://caringacross.org/
Caring Future
https://www.caringfutures.org/
Caregiver Action Network
https://www.caregiveraction.org/
Disability Scoop
https://www.disabilityscoop.com/politics/
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