OIFN Book Club

Join us in person at The Boat House in Guelph!

Tuesday, October 24, 2023
12:00pm

We will be discussing this article:

Ableist Language and Disability Professionals by By Carli Friedman, CQL Director of Research, and Zach Gordon, AAIDD Production Coordinator, Publications

https://www.c-q-l.org/resources/articles/ableist-language-disability-professionals-differences-in-language-based-on-professionals-demographics/

and also a TED Talk – “Isn’t it a pity?” by Torrie Dunlap:

https://youtu.be/UJ7QaCFbizo?si=BzwLFS2UUwIFkRCe

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Honouring the work of Judith Heumann, a great leader in self-advocacy.

TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/…/judith_heumann_our_fight_for…

Oscar winning documentary, Crip Camp, in which she is prominently featured, available on Netflix.

Friendship in the Age of Loneliness, by Adam Smiley Powsolsky

Resources for discussion:
Video Discussion of the book on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQDSs09bS_w

“The Language of Us and Them,” poem by Mayer Shevin

How Small Gestures Can Bridge the Gap Between “Us” and “Them,” TED X Talk by Laura Kriska

Ten Ways to Have Better Conversation –
TED Talk by Celeste Headlee

Peter Gzowski Interviews with Donna Williams

The Summer Sister Series on The Gifts of Imperfection, Podcast by Brene Brown

The Summer Sister Series on The Gifts of Imperfection, Podcast by Brene Brown

“Remembering the Soul of Our Work: Stories by the Staff of Options in Community Living” edited by John O’Brien and Connie Lyle O’Brien

• “What Does Community Mean to You?” shows people being interviewed about their thoughts on this important topic.
• Communities of Character North Perth shares the initiative a local self-advocacy group took to make their town a Community of Character, where a different Value is celebrated and reflected on each month.

Two book selections by Japanese poet/author Naoki Higashida:

• The Reason I Jump
• Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism

Questions Change Everything in Community Engagement, TED Talk by Max Hardy:
https://www.ted.com/talks/max_hardy_questions_change_everything_in_community_engagement

Thoughts on actors with disabilities portraying people in movies and television who have a disability.

Below are links to some articles exploring this subject:

• Should non-disabled actors play disabled characters?
• Why Holiday Movies Should Be Inclusive of People With Disabilities
• Disabled TV Characters Played by Disabled Actors
• Why are so Many Disabled Roles Played by Non-Disabled Actors?
• Is it ever OK for non-disabled actors to play disabled roles?
• Disabled actors say they’re the ‘last civil rights movement’ in Hollywood

Trail of Light video clip from Karma Tube: https://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=8662

“Where Do We Stand?” by Beth Mount and John O’Brien
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TED Talk – Simon Sinek, How Great Leaders Inspire Action

Amy Herman’s Ted Talk, “A Lesson on Looking”

“What Makes a Good Life?”  – a TED Talk by Robert Waldinger, Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, psychoanalyst, Zen priest, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.” 

 Discussion of the movie Radio along with the real-life story that inspired it (Sports Illustrated).

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 Discussion of Precious Cargo by Greg Davidson

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