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Paperback edition of Healing Ableism by Darla Schumm

Coming November 11th 

“The book is a powerful call to religious practitioners — and all of us — to rage against ableism in our communities, transforming them together through love."

- Naomi Lawson Jacobs, co-author of At the Gates: Disability, Justice and the Churches

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Praise for Healing Ableism

  • "Darla Schumm invites us into a fascinating conversation with the author and her informants about the complex interaction between disability and religion. Schumm, acting as alternatively memoirist, teacher, and social scientist, provides an enlightened insider's look at disability and blindness. The book both entertains and informs, providing a needed adjunct to more dryly academic works."

     - Lennard J. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • "'Accessible Love' is Darla Schum’s brilliant proposal for dismantling ableism. Religious people commonly construct monumental barriers to access, inclusion, and equity in their teachings and architecture. Careful, candid, comprehensive analysis grounded in interviews with disabled people opens new paths. This deftly written book is theology at its most useful."

    - Mary E. Hunt Ph.D. Co-Director, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER)

  • "A vital contribution to the changing conversation on disability in religious contexts. Through in-depth qualitative research with disabled people from a range of religious traditions, Professor Schumm reflects on ableism and disability (in)justice in religious communities, weaving interviewees' voices together with illuminating perspectives from critical disability theory. The book is a powerful call to religious practitioners — and all of us — to rage against ableism in our communities, transforming them together through love."

    - Naomi Lawson Jacobs, co-author of At the Gates: Disability, Justice and the Churches

Articles & Essays

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    Why Higher Ed Needs Leaders With Disabilities

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    Embracing a more flexible concept of time known as “crip time” would make higher ed more inclusive.

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    A Buddhist Perspective on Disability and COVID19

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    Beyond Architecture

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