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Conflict Culture, Accessibility, and Leadership Behavior
Analyzing the experience of employees with disabilities as it relates to the leaders conflict style and the organizational conflict culture. Within an organization, a supervisor’s actions impact accessibility, perhaps even more than the human resources department (HR). Here’s one of my latest experiences trying to get accommodations which demonstrates this. I first went to HR with my Doctor's letter explaining the accommodations that I needed due to my neuropathic pain and sp
Sep 254 min read


Limitations of the Situated Model of Conflict: The interplay between identity, loss and the predetermined conflict landscape
In prior blogs, I’ve discussed the importance of understanding power, dependency and group dynamics when negotiating with another party,...
Sep 23 min read


Conflict Landscape, Workplace Accommodations and Organizational Power
An overview of conflict resolution theories as applied to workplace accommodation requests. Although we may want to believe it’s not...
Aug 173 min read


Coordinated Management of Meaning
Communications Theory - Coordinated Management of Meaning's impact on workplace accommodations, mediation, and negotiation.
Jan 223 min read


How disabled women in the workplace can negotiate their needs
Organizational structures that support accommodations preserve embodied feminine wisdom of disability.
Jul 2, 20246 min read


Requesting and using accommodations through the lens of organizational power
Insights provided through the Critical Post Modern Framework of Organizational Power.
Jun 7, 20243 min read


Renegade
This is a personal excerpt written after an experience where an administrator told me to make my requests with the Disability Services...
May 26, 20242 min read


Exile and Dominant Ways
The 2020 move to remote opened a world of possibilities for me.
May 26, 20242 min read


Speech Act: Accessibility
W. Barnett Pearce reminds us that through the act of communicating, certain words imply a set of actions that must be coordinated with...
Apr 6, 20242 min read


Reflection: Pain
"Pain medication so you can do life our way," But what does the pain have to say, does it need to be erased, Does it have a message, A...
Mar 12, 20241 min read


Accessibility requires more than formal accommodations: CMM as the antidote for social barriers inhibiting access
Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) techniques can be used to facilitate shared meaning of disability and accessibility. Coordinated...
Jan 2, 20244 min read


Let's Start With Disability
More people than you think have a disability. The name of this blog Disability is Everywhere , means different things to different...
Jul 6, 20232 min read


Defining 'disability'
Allen McNair Exit 47 (2022) Purchase here Defining 'disability' Current debates within the Disability Studies community on how to define...
Nov 23, 20225 min read


Guatemala, Disability, Ideology:
The importance of elevating the voices of the disabled in rural Guatemala through qualitative research. Disability studies can be...
Aug 1, 20224 min read


History of Activism and Social Movements
Social movements and activism as a method to reach for power in a world content with sidelining us. Untitled, 2023 Alex Becerra, Arts of...
Mar 3, 20216 min read


Where the concrete meets the concept: the impact of elementary school design
In my Honors Thesis research paper, I wrote about how institutional ableism is taught at a young age and then reproduced throughout one’s...
Jan 3, 20214 min read


Eugenics, Lasting Impacts On Societal Ranking: Create Outliers and then Cast them Away
Part Four of How Much Are You Worth?: Toward an Economic Theory of Disability Eugenics “ Those who aren’t able to operate well within the...
Dec 11, 20204 min read


Work Ethic: Work Hard or Go to Hell
Part Three of How Much Are You Worth?: Toward an Economic Theory of Disability With innovation and technology that we have, with the...
Dec 10, 20203 min read


A Brief Glance at the History of the Laborer and Economic Theory of Value
Part Two of How Much Are You Worth?: Towards an Economic Disability Theory Each economy throughout history has had its way of placing...
Dec 9, 20204 min read


Economic Valuation and the Ranking of Humans
Colonialist Profit Driven Systems: Towards an Economic Disability Theory Society, and the population as a whole, enact a ranking system...
Dec 8, 20202 min read
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