Disability Advocacy

Disability Community

Seattle and King County

• Alliance of People with disAbilities (Centers for Independent Living)
• Disability Rights Washington (advocacy services)
• Arc of King County (serving people with developmental disabilities)

Washington

• People First of Washington (self-advocacy)
• Self Advocates in Leadership (statewide coalition of people with developmental disabilities)
• Washington State Developmental Disabilities Council (advocacy and policy planning)
• Governor's Committee on Disability Issues and Employment (statewide advocacy)

Eugenics Apologies

• Berger, Knute. "Breed and Weed."The Seattle Weekly, April 16, 2003.
• Berger, Knute. "It's Never Too Late to Say You're Sorry."Crosscut Seattle, April 13, 2007.
• "Oregonians Get Apology for Sterilizations,"Inclusion Daily Express, 2002.
• Platt, Tony. "Engaging the Past: Charles M. Goethe, American Eugenics, and Sacramento State University." Social Justice 32 (2005): 17-33.
• Reynolds, Dave. "The Eugenics Apologies: How a Pair of Disability Rights Advocates Scored the First Apology for Eugenics, and What They Have Planned Next."Ragged Edge Online, Nov/Dec 2003.
• Stern, Alexandra. "Eugenics and Historical Memory in America." History Compass 2 (2005): 1-11.
• Wahlsten, Douglas. "Leilani Muir versus the Philosopher King: Eugenics on Trial in Alberta." Genetica 99 (1997): 185-198.
• Zitner, Aaron, "Davis' Apology Sheds No Light on Sterilization."Los Angeles Times, March 16, 2003, A12.

Forced Sterilization

Disability Studies

Scholarly Organizations

• Society for Disability Studies (publishes Disability Studies Quarterly)
• Disability History Association (publishes a newletter)
• Disability Studies: Information and Resources (comprehensive online compilation)
• Disability Archive UK (University of Leeds)

Disability History Online

• Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
• Disability History Museum (Center for Disability and Public History)
• Disability Social History Project (community history project, 2003)
• Museum of disABILITY History (Buffalo, NY)
• Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement (University of California, Berkeley)
• The Disability Rights Movement (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)

Genetics, Reproduction, and Disability Rights

• Brantlinger, Ellen. Sterilization of People with Mental Disabilities: Issues, Perspectives, and Cases. Connecticut: Auburn House, 1995.
• Buchanan, Alan, et al., eds. From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008.
• The DNA Exhange. Genetic counsellors’ blog.
• DNA: Pandora’s Box. PBS. Windfall Films Production for Thirteen/WNET New York in association with Channel Four, 2003.
• Duster, Troy. Backdoor to Eugenics. New York: Routledge, 1990.
• Field, Martha and Valerie Sanchez. Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Kerr, Anne and Tom Shakespeare. Genetic Politics: From Eugenics to Genome. Cheltenham, England: New Clarion Press, 2002.
• Kitcher, Philip. The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities. New York: Touchstone, 1996.
• Parens, Erik and Adrienne Asch, eds. Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
• Paul, Diane. The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.
• Rembis, Michael. "(Re)defining Disability in the 'Genetic Age': Behavioral Genetics, 'New' Eugenics, and the Future of Impairment." Disability and Society 24 (2009): 585-597.