Articles, Authors, Books

Literary resources to deepen your learning.

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Articles

"Diversity Issues in Movement Observation and Assessment" - Christine Caldwell

"Embodying Activism: Reconciling Injustice Through Dance/Movement Therapy" - Mira Cantrick, Terra Anderson, Lucia Bennett Leighton, Melanie Warning

"Stop Hesitating" - Elizabeth McCorvey

"Turning Towards Multicultural Diversity Competence in Dance/Movement Therapy" - Nova Golonka Carmichael

"Dance/Movement Therapists of Color in the ADTA: The First 50 Years" - Meg Cheng

Authors

Patricia Hill Collins — race, class, sexuality & gender

Eli Clare — (dis)ability & queerness

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson — feminist (dis)ability studies

Stuart Hall — cultural studies

bell hooks — cultural studies

Julia Serano — transfeminism

Sherene Razack — critical race feminism

Books

"Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life" - Amy Gluckman & Betsy Reed

"Racism and the Making of Gay Rights" - Laurie Marhoefer

"On Learning to Heal: or What Medicine Doesn’t Know" - Ed Cohen

"The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids" - Kelly Storck

"The Antiracism Handbook" - Thema Bryant

"Pleasure Activism" - Adrienne Maree Brown

"Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask" - Anton Treuer

"Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid and Genderqueer Youth" - Ritch C. Savin-Williams

"All Boys Aren't Blue" - George M Johnson

"We Have Always Been Here" - Samra Habib

"Unwatchable" - Various Authors

"Stolen Focus" - Johann Hari

"Sipping Dom Perignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever" - Eddie Ndopu

"Disability Theory" - Tobin Siebers

"Pushout" - Monique W Morris

"Trauma Stewardship" - Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk

"Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation" - Sunaura Taylor

"Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness" - Sander Gilman

"A History of Disability" - Henri-Jacques & William Sayers

"Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability" - Robert McRuer & Michael Berube

"About Canada: Disability Rights: 2nd Edition" - Deborah Stienstra

"My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies" - Resmaa Menakem

"Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolution" - Christine Caldwell & Lucia Bennett

"The Diversity Gap" - Bethany Wilkinson

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