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Tilting at Windmills and the Rule of Law

—Michael A. Olivas
DACA has been successful and transformational and President Trump’s and AG Jeff Sessions’s indication that they may end or phase out the program throws cold water on the reasonable hopes of DREAMers.
Education

Vaccine Mandates and the Search for Social Justice

—Jennifer Reich
At the beginning of each school year, children around the country will be asked to provide school supplies alongside evidence that they have received all recommended vaccinations against childhood vaccine-preventable diseases. Although these requirements have become increasingly contentious, but were, in fact, created only in the last 35-50 years in an effort to create greater access to care for the most children in need.
Sociology

Making a Global Domestic Workers’ Movement: Myrtle Witbooi

Myrtle Witbooi discusses Domestic Workers of World Unite!: A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights, and how it can help you better understand the global, domestic workers movement.
New York

Our City, Our Stories

New York City’s remarkable history, intimate stories, and struggles.
Current Events

Women’s Equality Day Reading List

A comprehensive list of all of our best feminist literature representing women and gender equality. From the Women’s Rights Movement to abortion rights to the early suffragists of New York City, this list covers all aspects of the female fight for equality.

Available, Accessible, Usable

March 28, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Elizabeth Ellcessor
Creating accessible spaces, technologies, and content often entails augmenting, altering, or otherwise working around the assumption that all users will have a “normal” able body.

More Than a Symbolic Change: iOS 10 and the Accessible Icon Emoji

September 7, 2016 nyupressblog 1

—Elizabeth Ellcessor
The revised accessibility symbol emoji introduced in iOS 10 is not the familiar static wheelchair symbol. Its inclusion demonstrates how art and activism can influence culture, industries, and policies with major implications for access and participation in broader society.

What Makes a Story

February 2, 2016 nyupressblog 0

The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read by Michael Bérubé is out today! This excerpt appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education. —Michael Bérubé My kids are

Michael Bérubé on Humans, Superheroes, Mutants, and People with Disabilities at TEDxPSU

October 27, 2015 nyupressblog 1

Click here for more from TEDxPSU. Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University. In 2012, he served as the President

Ferguson, race, and the disability politics of the teen brain

May 5, 2015 nyupressblog 2

In an article published on Somatosphere this week, author Julie Passanante Elman discusses race, disability, and the volatile teen brain. Read an excerpt from the essay below—and be sure check out more from the website’s series, Inhabitable Worlds. In February 2014,

An interview with Tom Shakespeare: Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, through the lens of disability studies

March 25, 2015 nyupressblog 0

Sociologist Tom Shakespeare of the University of Norwich Medical School recently did a five-part series on “The Genius of Disability” for BBC Radio 3, with the first radio essay in the series focusing on the blind poet

Q&A with Heather Laine Talley, author of Saving Face

August 5, 2014 nyupressblog 0

Heather Laine Talley is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Carolina University. Her new book, Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance, examines the cultural meaning of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured. In the interview

The “bad” mothers of children with disabilities

October 21, 2013 nyupressblog 2

—Ruth Colker Blaming the mother is a long-standing cultural tradition in the United States. In the best-selling book, The Generation of Vipers, Philip Wylie invented the name “momism” in 1942 to describe the “women of

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Tilting at Windmills and the Rule of Law

Vaccine Mandates and the Search for Social Justice

Making a Global Domestic Workers’ Movement: Myrtle Witbooi

Our City, Our Stories

Women’s Equality Day Reading List

From The Square

NYU Press Blog

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