Aram Schvey

May 31, 2024 | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon |Lindsey Patterson |Aram Schvey |Brian Brutlag

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. A core tenet of the modern disability rights movement is that disability can be understood not as an individual deficit but as a social failure. Historian Lindsey Patterson describes how the movement emerged thanks in part to disabled young people whose experiences in community with each other transformed their perspectives about what was possible for them.