Module 7: Disability Justice and the Good Human Life
Trusting Lived Experience
From the Community
As you engage with Heather’s clip below, reflect on how disabled people’s expertise about their own body is often overlooked in medical contexts.
As Swaraj describes his experience with respiratory symptoms over a prolonged period of time, consider the value of disabled peoples’ lived experience of their bodies in healthcare encounters.
Critical Access
Media Moment
Time: 47 minutes, 21 seconds
Now that you have read through the Canadian context, watch this video by disability studies professor Dr. Aimi Hamraie. This video discusses the American context, so it is interesting to attend to the differences between the two nations. This video reviews some of the material presented in the previous modules and offers a way to think about how accommodation and access plays out in people’s everyday lives.
Watch the following video here, access it at the link below, or the transcript.
Aimi Hamraie on “Making Access Critical: Disability, Race, and Gender in Environmental Design”
