Stephanie van Dam

And simultaneously fielding the “what’s the point of getting a diagnosis” and the “prove the legitimacy of your diagnosis and accommodations” questions. The problem isn’t too many people being accommodated, it’s that the less privileged you are, the more difficult it is to access accommodations.

A large brown table in a booth in an archive. There are five brown archive boxes and one open box on too of the table. In front is a large stack of papers taken out of the open box.

And today I find myself on the other side of the country! Regionaal Archief Tilburg is one of the few places where they still have the records of a local chapter of a national association for disabled people. Fun fact - they organised an accessible version of Dutch carnaval #dishist

Progress from the Margins | Columbia University Press The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities differs markedly from other forms of international human rights law: it not onl... | CUP

My book on human rights and disability internationalism since the 1960s is available for preorder (discount code: CUP20), for more info and kind words of Dagmar Herzog and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social see: cup.columbia.edu/book/progres...

Executive Board Records of FIMITIC Now Open for Research The first series of the Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability (FIMITIC) is now open for research.

Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability available at @archivum.org
Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist
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Could not agree more

Feels a bit weird talking into the void but if you are interested in my PhD research please feel free to ask me questions! And there is a summary here: doi.org/10.17863/CAM...

Had my - to quote my friend - 'legally blonde moment' at graduation and felt it might be time to leave the PhD-pyjama era behind and move back into public! So, hello!! Very happy to say I did the PhD thing and am now a not-that-kind-of-Doctor at the School of Public Health (EHESP, France)