"Ableism is the process of favoring, fetishizing, and building the world around a mostly imagined, idealized body while discriminating against those bodies perceived to move, see, hear, process, operate, look, or need differently from that vision.”
—Rebekah Taussig, in Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

As more Unitarian Universalists learn to understand the intersecting and interlocking oppressions that harm us all, we're also developing a more nuanced understanding of ableism. This collection is one way to further that learning within our spiritual and religious values.

WorshipLab Posts

• What You're Saying When You Say "I Don't Need a Mic"

• What's the Big Deal about Embodied Imagery in Worship? by Rev. Suzanne Fast

Readings and Quotes

• Disability and American Ideals by Kim E. Nielsen
• The Prophecy of the Disabled Body
• Crushing Systems by Rebekah Taussig
• Wild Emancipation for All of Us by Rebekah Taussig
• Witness and Pride by Eli Clare
• Disability Can Be Contextual by Kim E. Nielsen
• How Ableism Is Lived Out by Kim E. Nielsen

Other Resources

• The Disability Language Style Guide from the National Center on Disability Journalism is available in English, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian.