In “We Are Certain of Our Own Insanity,” Lewis documents the history of the struggle between gay liberation activists and psychiatrists...

This week's discussion of reform versus revolution is very pertinent to the animal rights movement. This is something I have seen all the...

The assigned reading this week, Abram J. Lewis’ “’We Are Certain of Our Own Insanity’: Antipsychiatry and the Gay Liberation Movement,...

Week 6 blog post!

People who identify as LGBTQ+ had to fight to not be consistently put into a psychiatric ward. The history is filled with those who were...

This week's reading was on the gay rights movement's struggle with the APA over the depiction of homosexuality as a mental disorder in...

From this week's reading, the biggest thing I took away from Lewis' essay was meaningless 'progress.' The DSM just tossing the LGBTQ+...

The Crip Camp documentary on Netflix was something that I really hadn't seen before, and I don't mean strictly that documentary before -...

Week 5 blogpost In the film Crip Camp, the activists demonstrated the importance of visibility for a movement to gain any sort of...

Week #5 blog post, a little late as well. Whoops!

Discussion of week #4's topics.

This week's reading came from Poell & and van Dijck and one of the first points in the article that I thought were interesting along with...

To begin I would say that this article by Ruth Osorio is a great exposé that covers the cultural phenomenons that take place online when...

This week’s “reading,” the Netflix documentary Crip Camp, provided a fascinating look into the world of disability activism. The...

This week we watched a documentary on disability activism, which was engaging and definitely a way in which I like to learn things...

This week, we watched the documentary Crip Camp which described a few founding events in the disability rights movement. It described not...

In the documentary Crip Camp, there were many areas in the lives of people with disabilities that were brought to light. Additionally,...

This week there was an interesting juxtaposition between concerns about how society treats disabled persons, How psychiatry treated the...

Crip Camp is a documentary that followed a group of people that met at a camp for disabled kids and stayed connected throughout their...

The documentary "Crip Cramp" takes the viewer through the history and experiences of those dealing with physical disabilities. We are...