Module 3: Reframing Disability
Reframing Disability
Key Terms: Reframing Disability
The following key terms are used throughout this module and linked in the glossary:
Media Moment
Time: 5 minutes, 8 seconds
This module invites you to notice how disability is framed in everyday care.
Engage with Patty Berne and Stacey Milburn, the co-founders of the disability justice group Sins Invalid, as they describe the social model, which we will learn about later in this module.
Watch the following video here, access it at the link below, or the transcript.
My Body Doesn’t Oppress Me, Society Does
Activity
The following questions invite you to reflect on key ideas and examples from the discussion between Patty Berne and Stacey Milburn.
A network of beliefs, processes and practices that produce a particular kind of self and body that becomes the normative standard, or the "species typical." (Kumari-Campbell, 2021). Can also refer to discrimination or prejudice against disabled people (see also: "disableism").
Functional differences, such as sensory or physical differences, for example seeing differently or moving differently.
A perspective that sees disability as a result of barriers in society, not an individual deficit, and focuses on removing those barriers.
An approach that addresses disability-based discrimination through legal protections, policy interventions, and rights-based mechanisms.
A grassroots movement that advocates for the rights, dignity, and inclusion of disabled people, focusing on intersectionality and collective justice.
The idea that people’s unique lived experiences are influenced by multiple intersecting factors and identities, including race, gender, class, and disability.
The historical and contemporary forms of structural violence directed towards Indigenous, Black and other racialized people through the institution, policy and practice of medicine.
