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(effective through 6/00)

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All orders must be pre-paid.  Make check or money order out to and
send to:
Institute on Disability Culture
2260 Sunrise Point Rd.
Las Cruces, NM 88011 USA

PROMOTING DISABILITY PRIDE T-SHIRT           

Institute on Disability Culture T-shirt is purple with the IDC logo of
the access symbol combined with a Zia sun symbol and the phrase,
"Promoting Disability Pride" on the front.  On the back is the symbol
with the IDC name.  Sizes still Available:  Small, Medium, Large,
XX  Large, XXX  Large.

DISABILITY CULTURE:

THE CHART: DISABILITY RIGHTS/CULTURE/PRIDE PARADIGM

A one page description of the (r)evolution from charity and pity to
disability pride developed by Steven E. Brown.

PUBLICATIONS WRITTEN 
by 
Steven E. Brown

A CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY:  AN ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT DISABILITY CULTURE
38 pages, spiralbound.  Published 2000

"Just read A Celebration of Diversity. It is great! A perfect product to
give to a person who beginning an investigation of disability
studies." 
David Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
Resident Scholar
Center on Disability Studies
University of Hawai`i at Manoa

INVESTIGATING A CULTURE OF DISABILITY:  FINAL
REPORT        
240 pages, tape binding.  Published 1995        

The first, and still most comprehensive, analysis about DISABILITY
CULTURE.  Unconvinced that there IS a culture and want to know
more?  Rich stories about our culture, many people who have been
instrumental in producing it and a history of how we got to this
stage is all found in this text.  
                              
"CREATING A DISABILITY MYTHOLOGY," International Journal of
Rehabilitation Research, 15, (Winter 1992), 227-33.

A look at creating a positive mythology about disability beginning
with an exploration of people with disabilities as heroes.  

"THE CURB RAMPS OF KALAMAZOO:  DISCOVERING OUR
UNRECORDED HISTORY,"  DISABILITY STUDIES QUARTERLY,
19 (3), (Summer 1999), 203-05.

How did this small Michigan town get curb ramps in the mid-1940s?

"DEVIANTS, INVALIDS, AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS:  CROSS-
CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONDITIONS OF DISABILITY
IN ONE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE:  A REVIEW OF DISABILITY
AND CULTURE," Disability and Rehabilitation:  An International,
Multidisciplinary Journal, 18 (5) (May 1996), 273-75. 

A review of the first academic book to specifically attack the
concept of disability in different cultures.

DISABILITY CULTURE:  BEGINNINGS:  A FACT SHEET," in
Unfinished Business, Irene M. Ward & Associates, 4949 Hayden
Run Rd., Columbus, OH 43221-5930, 1996.

A two-page description of the history of Disability Culture and why it
reverses common stereotypes.

"FREAK SHOW," RAGGED EDGE:  THE DISABILITY
EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA, 20 (4), (July/Aug. 1999), 36.

Taken from a MANIFESTO essay, this article explores the
Showtime original movie, "Freak City."

INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS:  AN EXAMPLE OF HOW CILS CAN
PUT THEIR WORK IN THE CONTEXT OF DISABILITY
CULTURE," Readings in Independent Living, ILRU/NCIL National
Training and Technical Assistance Project, (July 1999).  Available
from Independent Living Research Utilization, 2323 S. Shepherd,
Ste. 100, Houston,  TX 77019.

How one CIL used exploring their disability culture to understand
their current role.

"'OH, DON'T YOU ENVY US OUR PRIVILEGED LIVES?'  A
REVIEW OF THE DISABILITY CULTURE MOVEMENT," Disability
and Rehabilitation:  An International, Multidisciplinary Journal, 19
(8) (August 1997), 339-49.

The most up-to-date review of Disability Culture products.

MANIFESTO:  A MONTHLY ONLINE NEWSLETTER

Includes essays by Steve Brown, responses to previous editorials,
announcements and information about innovative activities in the
world of disability culture.

"'POSTER KIDS NO MORE:'  PERSPECTIVES ABOUT THE NO-
LONGER EMERGING (IN FACT, VIBRANT) DISABILITY
CULTURE," Disability Studies Quarterly, 18 (1) (Winter 1998), 5-19.
                              
A look at how the Disability Culture movement has developed
through the mid-1990s, combining a description of Disability Culture
artifacts and analysis of the development of the Disability Culture
Movement.

"SOME RUMINATIONS ON THE SDS RETREAT," DISABILITY
STUDIES QUARTERLY, 19 (2) (Spring 1999), 141-42.

Who is benefitting from and participating in the Society for Disability
Studies.

"WE ARE WHO WE ARE... SO WHO ARE WE?  MAINSTREAM:
Magazine of the Able-Disabled, 20 (10), (Aug. 1996), 28-30, 32.

After years of being asked for a one-sentence description of
Disability Culture this article essays how a one paragraph depiction
came about.  This is still the definition most often used in my own
work.    

DISABILITY CIVIL RIGHTS AND INDEPENDENT
LIVING MOVEMENT:

INDEPENDENT LIVING:  THEORY AND PRACTICE
110 pages, spiral bound.  Published 1994     

(Introduction excerpt)  "Several fundamental beliefs have been
combined to establish the foundation to construct an independent
living philosophy.  These premises include the notion that each
individual is different and unique; that people with disabilities are
the most knowledgeable experts about our own needs and issues;
and that programs serving disabled people should be designed to
serve all disability groups."  Learn about how to put this theory into
practice.

"ADVOCACY-ORIENTED PEER SUPPORT--PART TWO: 
MOVING FROM TALK TO ACTION," Readings in Independent
Living, ILRU/NCIL National Training and Technical Assistance
Project, (March 1999).  Available from Independent Living
Research Utilization, 2323 S. Shepherd, Ste. 100, Houston,  TX
77019.

How several CILs use peer support to make changes.
                              
"COMMUNICATING AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY:  INNOVATIVE COMPUTER PROGRAMS," ILRU/NCIL
National Training and Technical Assistance Project, (Dec. 1999). 
Available from Independent Living Research Utilization, 2323 S.
Shepherd, Ste. 100, Houston,  TX 77019.

How two CILs are using computers to advocate for change.
                              
"CONSTRUCTING DISABILITY STUDIES:  MORE QUESTIONS
OF IDENTITY," in Makas, Elaine, Beth Haller, & Tanis Doe, eds.,
Accessing the Issues:  Current Research in Disability Studies
(Portland, ME:  The Society for Disability Studies & the Edmund S.
Muskie Institute of Public Affairs, 1998), 271-73.

Why people with disabilities might need to be the current teachers
of disability issues.  
                              
"DIS-ING DEFINITIONS,"  MAINSTREAM: Magazine of the Able-
Disabled, 21 (10), (Aug. 1997), 22, 26-27, 29.

An analysis of how language and definitions of power contribute to
the creation and maintenance of an oppressed people.

"A GENTLE, ANGRY PEOPLE:  THEY WON'T ABANDON
COALITION-BUILDING,"  Disabled USA (86/1-2), 39-41.

A mid-1980s look at why the oppression of any one group
precludes freedom for all of us.  In an early mixture of culture and
politics song lyrics from two icons of the women's music movement
are included as part of the text.
                              
"HOOKED ON SYMPTOMS:  DRUG ABUSE FROM A DISABILITY
PERSPECTIVE," Independent Living, (Aug./Sept. 1990), 63-66.

Prescription drugs have rarely been described as harmful for
people with disabilities.  This analysis describes when such drugs
might or might not be helpful.  Described in the context of social
morals this is an examination of many fears about disability.

"I WAS BORN (IN A HOSPITAL BED)--WHEN I WAS THIRTY-
ONE YEARS OLD," Disability and Society, 10, (1), (1995), 103-110.

An awakening to a positive life as a person with a disability. 

"A MODEL," Disability Rag (May/June 1986) 30-31.

What and why we can learn from the labor movement of the early
twentieth century.

"PEER COUNSELING:  ADVOCACY-ORIENTED PEER
SUPPORT--PART ONE," Readings in Independent Living,
ILRU/NCIL National Training and Technical Assistance Project,
(February 1999).  Available from Independent Living Research
Utilization, 2323 S. Shepherd, Ste. 100, Houston,  TX 77019.

A description of the origins of peer support and some examples of
its use as an action strategy.

"RETHINKING THE DISABILITY AGENDA," THE CHEROTIC
(R)EVOLUTIONARY:  A ZINE OF ALL POSSIBILITIES, 1 (8)
(1999), 6-7.
                              
The text of a keynote speech analyzing who benefits from disability
products and productivity.

"THE SCIENTIST AND THE FROG:  A TALE OF TWO
CREATURES IN THE FORM OF AN EXPERIMENTAL FABLE," in
Akridge, Robert L., Dale S. Brown, Steven E. Brown, and Laurel
Richards, eds., Peer Support Programs:  To Promote Independent
Living and Career Development of People with Disabilities (Hot
Springs, AR:  Arkansas Research and Training Center in Vocational
Rehabilitation, 1991), 7-10. 

A humorous attempt to describe the life-saving necessity of peer
support.

"SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE ADA," Ragged Edge:  The
Disability Experience in America, 19 (5) (Sept.-Oct. 1998), 15-16,
45.

A review of the impact the ADA has had--and not--on one activist.
                              
"SUPER DUPER?" MAINSTREAM: Magazine of the Able-Disabled,
21 (2) (Oct. 1996), 28-31.

Excerpts of an e-mail conversation discussing Christopher Reeve's
appearance at the 1996 Democratic National Convention.  

"THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF INDEPENDENT LIVING," This
Brain Has a Mouth, (July/August 1992) 20-21.

Rules to live by for centers for independent living.

"A VISION OF REDEMPTION:  CENTERS FOR INDEPENDENT
LIVING IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM," Ragged Edge:  The Disability
Experience in America, 20 (2), (March/April 1999), 12-15, 30.

A brief history of my own experience at centers for independent
living and how it has changed from the early 1980s to the late
1990s.

"THE WALKOUT," Disability Rag, 6, (9), (September 1985) 39-40.

A description of the employees of an independent living center
putting our jobs on the line over the issue of people with disabilities
running our own organizations.  "Lesson to Remember, 41, is also
included. 

with Judy Heumann, Simi Litvak, and Hale Zukas, "A BRIEF
ECONOMY OF PERSONAL ASSISTANCE Services," Spinal Cord
Injury Life (Spring 1991) 3-5. 

A very short look at the need for, and description of, Personal
Assistance Services.

with Doug Koehner, "NEW KID ON THE BLOCK:  CLIENT
ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS ARE CUTTING THEIR Teeth,"
Disabled USA, (1986/1-2) 8-12.

In the mid-1980s, Client Assistant Programs were mandated for
each state and territory.  A description of their purpose.

PROFILES:

"IN FREEDOM, FRANK," MAINSTREAM: Magazine of the Able-
Disabled, 22 (9) (June/July 1998), 32, 34.

A  glimpse at the life of performance artist, writer, and guru Frank
Moore, who also lives with and from spastic cerebral palsy.

"MOVIES STARS AND SENSUOUS SCARS," MAINSTREAM:
Magazine of the Able-Disabled, 21 (5), (Feb. 1997), 26, 28, 31.

A look at sexuality, love, and disability and one reason I love my
wife.

with Lillian Gonzales Brown, "DEATH & LIFE," MAINSTREAM:
Magazine of the Able-Disabled, 20 (1), (Sept. 1995), 29-31.

How AIDS has affected one disabled person's life.

POETRY:

PAIN, PLAIN--AND FANCY RAPPINGS:  POETRY
FROM THE DISABILITY CULTURE 
39 pages, softcover.  Published 1995    

Readers and audiences alike express their appreciation for Steve's
ability to capture their lives in print.  Read about street
demonstrations in TAP-DANCING ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN
and a tribute to our movement in  Steve's signature poem: 
MARTYRS.

VOYAGES: LIFE JOURNEYS
54 pages, spiralbound.  Published 1996            

Poems about life experiences, places, love, and, of course,
Disability Culture!

"IN NEED OF Comedy," Driver's Side Airbag, 28, (Undulating
Bedsheets Productions, PO Box 25760, Los Angeles, CA 90025,
1997), 13.

A poem about being in intense pain.

"POLI-O-LI-O HEAVEN," The PALadin, (Programs for Accessible
Living Newsletter, Charlotte, NC), 3 (4), (July-August 1998), 2.

A tribute to some of our previous leaders.

"Cancers," "Holding Toes," and "One-Legged Woman," THE 
ENABLED WRITER:  AN ANTHOLOGY OF PROSE AND POETRY
BY NEW MEXICANS WITH DISABILITIES, Vol. 6, (Very Special
Arts New Mexico:  PO Box 7784, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 1999),
4-6, 13-14, 27-28.

Poems about friendship, love, and disability.

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PROMOTING DISABILITY PRIDE T-SHIRT          
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DISABILITY CULTURE

THE CHART: DISABILITY RIGHTS/CULTURE/PRIDE PARADIGM  
 $10.00 each or 3 for $15.00     

A CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY:  AN ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT DISABILITY CULTURE
$10.00

INVESTIGATING A CULTURE OF DISABILITY:                         
FINAL REPORT       
$50.00

Creating a Disability Mythology
$5.00

The Curb Ramps of Kalamazoo:   Discovering Our                        
Unrecorded History
$5.00

Deviants, Invalids, and Anthropologists:  Cross-                    
Cultural Perspectives on Conditions of Disability in            
One Academic Discipline:  A Review of DISABILITY                        
AND CULTURE
$5.00

Disability Culture:  Beginnings:  A Fact Sheet
$5.00                         

Freak Show
$5.00 
MANIFESTO
$5.00 per copy

'Oh, don't you envy us our privileged lives?'  a review                   
 
of the disability culture movement
$10.00

'Poster Kids No More:' Perspectives About the No-                        
Longer Emerging (In Fact, Vibrant) Disability Culture 
$15.00

Some Ruminations on the SDS Retreat
$5.00

We Are Who We Are...So Who Are We?  
$5.00

DISABILITY CIVIL RIGHTS AND INDEPENDENT LIVING
MOVEMENT

INDEPENDENT LIVING:   THEORY AND                              
PRACTICE                 
$30.00

Constructing Disability Studies:  More Questions of                      
Identity
$5.00

Dis-ing Definitions 
$5.00                     

A Gentle, Angry People:  They Won't Abandon                     
Coalition-Building
$5.00

Hooked on Symptoms:  Drug Abuse from a Disability                     
Perspective 
$5.00

I Was Born (in a Hospital Bed)--When I Was Thirty-                     
One Years Old
$10.00

A Model
$5.00

Rethinking the Disability Agenda
$5.00                         

The Scientist and the Frog:  A Tale of Two Creatures                      

in the Form of an Experimental Fable
$5.00

Some Reflections on the ADA
$5.00

Super Duper?
$5.00                         

The Ten Commandments of Independent Living
$5.00

A Vision of Redemption:  Centers for Independent                        
Living in the New Millennium
$5.00

The Walkout
$5.00

A Brief Economy of Personal Assistance Services
$5.00

New Kid on the Block:  Client Assistance Programs                         
are Cutting Their Teeth
$5.00
                 
PROFILES

In Freedom, Frank
$5.00

Movies Stars and Sensuous Scars
$5.00

Death & Life
$5.00
         
POETRY

PAIN, PLAIN--AND FANCY RAPPINGS:  
POETRY FROM THE DISABILITY CULTURE                       
$5.00

VOYAGES: LIFE JOURNEYS
$10.00

In Need of Comedy 
$2.00

"POLI-O-LI-O HEAVEN
$2.00
         
"Cancers," "Holding Toes," and "One-Legged                       
Woman," are available from THE ENABLED                        
WRITER:  AN ANTHOLOGY OF PROSE AND           
POETRY BY NEW MEXICANS WITH DISABILITIES,                     
Vol. 6, (Very Special Arts New Mexico:  PO Box 7784,            
Albuquerque, NM 87194, 1999).

INDEPENDENT LIVING RESEARCH UTILIZATION

The following products are available from Independent Living
Research Utilization (ILRU).  Please inquire about them at:   ILRU,
2323 S. Shepherd, Ste. 100, Houston,  TX 77019.

Advocacy-Oriented Peer Support--Part Two:  Moving from Talk to
Action

Communicating at the End of the Twentieth Century:  Innovative
Computer Programs

Innovative Programs:  An Example of How CILs Can Put Their
Work in the Context of Disability Culture," Readings in Independent
Living, ILRU/NCIL National Training and Technical Assistance
Project, (July 1999).

Peer Counseling:  Advocacy-Oriented Peer Support--Part One