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EDITORIAL: Establish the Disability Cultural Center

EDITORIAL: Establish the Disability Cultural Center

By The Editorial Board February 5, 2021

No student should face obstacles — physical or institutional — to their education or university resources. The Editorial Board calls on Georgetown University to create a Disability Cultural Center...

KANG: Understand Disability Terminology

KANG: Understand Disability Terminology

By Esther Kang September 19, 2020

Whenever I’m asked to explain what disability studies is, I usually don’t know where to begin. Part of the problem is the words themselves. Learning the language of DS is a practice of design, of...

KANG: Reject Ableist Ideas

KANG: Reject Ableist Ideas

By Esther Kang November 22, 2019

Before starting college, I used to think of ableist barriers in visible and measurable terms. At Georgetown University, I saw inaccessible elevators, malfunctioning automatic doors and the lack of transportation...

LANDRE: Acknowledge Disability as Diversity

LANDRE: Acknowledge Disability as Diversity

By Anna Landre January 16, 2019

It took me a long time to consider myself “disabled.” I know that sounds strange coming from someone who, wheelchair and all, is a veritable poster child for the term. Yet growing up, “disabled”...

COURTESY LYDIA BROWN
An essay by disability rights activist Lydia Brown (COL ’15) is on the 
syllabus for new anthropology course “Disability and Culture.”

Student Essay Featured in Disability Course

By Suzanne Monyak January 13, 2015

An anthology featuring an essay by Lydia Brown (COL ’15), a student activist for disability rights, will be used as coursework in a new anthropology course called “Disability and Culture,” taught...

Michelle Xu

5 Steps to Fight Ableism at Georgetown

By Lydia Brown November 18, 2014

In mid-September, both Copley elevators broke down, stranding every physically disabled student living on campus. After the Healey Family Student Center opened this semester, it took over a month for...

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For Those Outside the Joe Hoya Mold

By J. Capecchi May 16, 2014

“How do you feel about graduating?!” It’s the senior year equivalent to New Student Orientation’s “Name/hometown/major?” We all have our own canned responses, but none of them quite contain...

MEGAN SCHMIDT

Obliged to Provide Access

By The Editorial Board April 15, 2014

When Heather Artinian (COL ’15) reached out to the Academic Resource Center to request a sign language interpreter for a Georgetown University Student Association-sponsored LSAT prep course, she...

Conquering Ableism

By Sarah Amos February 22, 2013

Renleigh Spencer (COL ’15) excelled in high school. A natural scholar, he hoped to continue his academic achievements in college so that he could go on to earn a doctoral degree. But as the workload...

Panelists Discuss Disability Culture

By Tia Baheri November 15, 2012

Student autism activist Lydia Brown (COL ’15) organized a panel that addressed disability culture in the classrooms and mainstream society in Intercultural Center Wednesday. The panel, titled “Disability...

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