By Noah Berlatsky — 2014
The supercrip narrative, disability rights groups say, mostly serves to make mainstream audiences feel awesome and inspired, while ignoring the actual difficulties faced by and prejudices directed at the vast majority of disabled people.
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In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering.
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In this passionate talk, Albert Wiggan calls for better recognition from the scientific community arguing that Indigenous knowledge is science and that's what we should call it.
Wapikoni Mobile is changing the lives of Indigenous youth one creator at a time. This stopover season, “Wapikoni from Coast to Coast: Building Bridges and Reconciliation through Media Arts” is empowering young Indigenous Canadians to be media creators.
In this talk, Stephanie Pangowish, shares how the Indigenous community uses humor to survive colonization and continues to use it as a tool for healing.
In this Her Stories interview with Korina Emmerich, the designer and activist describes her experience growing up as a Native person in a white society. She shares how she came to love fashion, deciding at an early age that she was going to be an artist who used fashion as her medium.
Luisah Teish will speak at The Natural Way about learning to love the Earth, our Mother, and will share her personal stories of growing up in the South and her relationship to the land. She will recount and examine cultural myths that have mis-educated us into alienation from Our Mother Earth.
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture.