Month December 2011

Alan Roulstone, Professor of Disability and Inclusion, University of Northumbria, UK It was recently announced that Vic Finkelstein, veteran disability activist and academic had sadly passed away.  Vic Finkelstein was born in Johannesburg in 1938 and was part of the…

Kristín Björnsdóttir, Assistant Professor, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland A few weeks ago, I stood in front of a large group of undergraduate students at the University of Iceland. ‘My brother is a retard,’ I said. The students stopped browsing…