Created by Kate Youngdahl-Stauss, BreadLoaf School of English student, with support from the DAC team. “Difficult Choices: Disability on a Dirt Road” explores the very different choices made by two neighbors confronting severe illness in rural Vermont. An intimate portrait, this “podcast with pictures” highlights the tensions between the desire to stay in a belovedContinue reading “The “Difficult Choices: Disability on a Dirt Road” podcast”
Category Archives: Reflections
DORM LIFE ACCESSIBILITY: A Review By a Former Student Resident of UConn’s Towers
Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC Team For years, UConn has asserted its commitment to being an accessible school for its disabled professors, faculty members, students, and visitors and having a zero-tolerance policy for disability-related discrimination through the following: But are their facilities truly accessible? For the most part, UConn has prioritizedContinue reading “DORM LIFE ACCESSIBILITY: A Review By a Former Student Resident of UConn’s Towers”
A Reflection About Concert Experiences for People with Disabilities: Louis Tomlinson’s FAITH IN THE FUTURE and Charlie Puth’s CHARL!E World Tours
Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC team It wasn’t initially in my summer plans to check-off another objective on my bucket list. As someone who grew up classically-trained in music on the violin, I attended and performed in a number of concerts during middle school and high school, but for a longContinue reading “A Reflection About Concert Experiences for People with Disabilities: Louis Tomlinson’s FAITH IN THE FUTURE and Charlie Puth’s CHARL!E World Tours”
The Edge of a Sunset
Written by Allison Slitt, a UConn student, with support from the DAC team Prelude: This short composition was a piece submitted to Brenda Brueggemann’s Disability in American Literature and Culture course. In this course, we were asked to read the About Us Collection in the New York Times. This is a collection of beautiful personalContinue reading “The Edge of a Sunset”
Chalk Marking as a Display of Solidarity and Defiance
Written by Ashten Vassar-Cain with support from the DAC team In a course on Disability in American Literature and Culture in fall of 2022, we learned about the detention of disabled immigrants at Ellis Island. If deemed “unfit,” their clothing would be marked with chalk–a tangible reminder that they were considered “less than” by theContinue reading “Chalk Marking as a Display of Solidarity and Defiance”
Learning that I’m Not Invincible: My Time in Shinjuku
Written by Elisa Shaholli with support from the DAC team When it comes to my diagnosis with type one diabetes, as much as I hate to admit it, I tried to embrace the dreaded “Supercrip” archetype growing up: yes, I have diabetes. And? Why should that be a precursor to any action I take? IContinue reading “Learning that I’m Not Invincible: My Time in Shinjuku”
Dragon Scales: Tackling the Stigmatization of Body Image / Body-Shaming and Embracing the Value of Body Positivity
Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC team Back when I was a kid, I used to believe I was secretly a dragon. On both sides of my shoulders and my lower back, small, itchy, red bumps grew. As time passed, the bumps grew larger and larger until the bumps started toContinue reading “Dragon Scales: Tackling the Stigmatization of Body Image / Body-Shaming and Embracing the Value of Body Positivity”
A Crow’s Eye View into “Transcripting”
Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC team Hello fellow crows ~ My name’s Hannah, and I’m one of the Disability Access Collective’s (DAC) student blog moderators! Recently, I was tasked with transcripting our interview with UConn Professor Kimberly Bergendahl from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) about their role inContinue reading “A Crow’s Eye View into “Transcripting””
How Do We Teach, and Learn, Universal Design?
Written by Alyssa Carbutti with support from the DAC team. ***This post is in reflection of ideas discussed during an interview with UConn Professor Erin Scanlon regarding her Accessibility Fellow. The link to the interview transcript can be found here I love the idea of having a learning community for UConn professors to become educatedContinue reading “How Do We Teach, and Learn, Universal Design?”
How Culture Shapes and Protects Against Stigma: An Informational on NYU Professor Lawrence Yang’s InCHIP Lecture
Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC team. In his classic sociological text on stigma, Erving Goffman wrote “The Greeks . . . originated the term stigma to refer to bodily signs designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of the signifier. The signs were cut or burnt intoContinue reading “How Culture Shapes and Protects Against Stigma: An Informational on NYU Professor Lawrence Yang’s InCHIP Lecture”
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