Resources

Disability Theology:

Collaborative on Faith & Disabilities
https://faithanddisability.org/
Parent Organization of the Institute on Faith and Disability

University of Aberdeen Centre for Spirituality, Health, and Disability: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/centre-for-spirituality-health-and-disability-182.php

Earth and Altar: An online magazine rooted in the tradition of The Episcopal Church and Anglican communion, Earth & Altar fosters conversation for the life of the church among all Christians. We have particularly enjoyed these articles: 
An article on theory and theology of disability: https://earthandaltarmag.com/posts/xtz56q1itj1z41r1gfjv1ribb9swk0 
Talking about the ableist language in the TEC Ash Wednesday service: https://earthandaltarmag.com/posts/tradition-and-revision-in-ash-wednesday-liturgy

National Basics:

Council of Canadians with Disabilities: http://www.ccdonline.ca/en/humanrights/
Americans with Disabilities Act: https://www.ada.gov/
Accessible Canada Act Summary

Secular Disability Resources:

NYT Disability Series: https://www.nytimes.com/column/disability

Forbes article – items people in the disability community disagree on: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewpulrang/2021/02/13/4-important-things-disabled-people-disagree-about/?sh=64fd94676f22
The author writes a regular column on disability which can be found here .

How to add Alt-Text to images for screen readers:
https://albinismupclose.com/alt-text-making-the-internet-more-accessible/

Disability Activistism:

Disability Justice: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice

ADAPT: https://adapt.org/
ADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom.

National Pain Advocacy Center: https://nationalpain.org/
NPAC’s mission is to advance the health and human rights of people in pain. They know pain can affect anyone but some groups are more likely to experience it or face greater barriers to care.

Autism Self-Advocacy Network: https://autisticadvocacy.org 

National Federation of the Blind: https://www.nfb.org

Crowd Sourced Resources:
Elements of these resources are crowd sourced. The quality of content varies. Please use in conversation with people who have relevant disabilities.

This is not a comprehensive list.
It is meant to be a list of resources we find helpful and refer to often.
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