Disability Futures

I have written here on the blog and elsewhere about why and in what ways "accessibility" and "accommodation" are distinct approaches to the inclusion of disabled people at academic conferences, in classrooms, and in social and cultural environments more generally. I have argued, furthermore, that the former approach---accessibility---is superior politically, ethically, socially, culturally, and institutionally to the latter approach. 

An article entitled "Conference Challenges for People with Psychiatric Disabilities" that appeared on the Chronicle's Vitae today draws out the implications of the distinction between accessibility and accommodation with respect to psychiatric disability in particular, though the distinction could have been drawn more vividly. Here is an excerpt from the article: