While i was reading and delving into content on disability rights, i came across this new term "Disability Culture." It's not necessarily a new term, it's just a little bit unknown since for the longest time we've been so geared to achieving disability rights that we've foregone other matters. So what is disability culture? Disability cultures exist as communities of people around topics of disability. The cultures include arts movements, coalitions, and include but are not limited to: poetry, dance, performance pieces, installments, and sculptures.
"The elements of our culture include, certainly, our longstanding social oppression, but also our emerging art and humor, our piecing together of our history, our evolving language and symbols, our remarkably unified world view, beliefs and values, and our strategies for surviving and thriving." -Carol Gill PhD
Disability culture is a trajectory, a movement, a path, rather than a destination: "Disability culture is the difference between being alone, isolated, and individuated with a physical, cognitive, emotional or sensory difference that in our society invites discrimination and reinforces that isolation – the difference between all that and being in community.
I agree to the need of collective identity and getting to journey with others at just how far we've come. With disability culture we are showing that there is more to disability trying to break away from exploitation for its one of the biggest ails in the road to achieving our rights.