March 8 is International Women’s Day. I write posts for the DSI blog, so in late February, I started brainstorming ideas for a post on disabled women. I am a disabled woman with an international perspective, but I confess I got stuck. Share stories of successful disabled women? Important, yes, and true, but how to avoid objectification? Statistics about the current state of disabled women around the world? Honestly, too depressing. Books by disabled women? Always fun - perhaps too easy for a...

For centuries, and in many societies still today, disability has been portrayed as a curse, perhaps a judgment from an angry deity, and...