Disability, Gender, Race and De-institutionalization

• In Event: Disability, Gender, Race and Institutions: Explorations in Precarity

Abstract

Despite activism and scholarly backlash, deinstitutionalization in the fields of mental health and developmental disabilities has been a reality in most US states in the last 4 decades.. This brief presentation will point to some ways in which a critical race and feminist analysis of not only institutionalization, but Deinstitutionalization can lead us to a more complex and intersectional discussion about the success and failure of deinstitutionalization, and the work still ahead for the liberation of people with disabilities and those who care for and about them.

Presenter

• Liat Ben-Moshe, University of Toledo