Marta Russell

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Marta Russell (December 20, 1951 - December 16, 2013) was an American writer and disability rights activist. Her book, Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract published in 1998 by Common Courage Press analyzes the relationship between disability, social Darwinism, and economic austerity under capitalism. Her political views, which she described as "left, not liberal," informed her writing on topics such as healthcare, the prison-industrial complex, physician-assisted suicide, poverty, ableism, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.[1][2]

Biography

Russell grew up in the Mississippi Delta, attended the Memphis College of Art, and moved to Los Angeles, California in her early 20s to pursue a career in cinematic visual effects.[3] Her identity as a writer and journalist emerged as her disability progressed, and as she became more involved with disability rights groups such as ADAPT.[3] A photographer as well as a producer of audio and visual content, Russell was recognized in 1994 with an award from the City of Los Angeles Commission on Disabilities for her contributions to disability society in the media.[4]

Journalism

In addition to writing for New Mobility and the Monthly Review, Russell contributed articles to numerous scholarly and policy journals such as the Journal of Disability Policy Studies and the Socialist Register as well as print and online newspapers such as The Los Angeles Daily News.

External links

"Is the ADA Enough?" Interview fellow disability activist Laura Hershey, originally published Colorado Quarterly Magazine, 2002 http://dljmlight.tripod.com/DL/IsADAenough.htm

"Dollars and Death," originally published in The Los Angeles Daily News,Sunday April 25, 1999 http://disweb.org/issues/pas/marta1.html

"Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights" Linda Hamilton Krieger, Editor University of Michigan Press, 2010 http://www.press.umich.edu/2717075/backlash_against_the_ada

"Disablement, Prison, and Historical Segregation," co-written with Jean Stewart Monthly Review July–August 2001, Volume 53, Number 3 http://monthlyreview.org/2001/07/01/disablement-prison-and-historical-segregation

"Targeting Disability" Monthly Review April 2005, Volume 56, Number 11 http://monthlyreview.org/2005/04/01/targeting-disability

"The Medicaid Kill-Off" MR Zine August 15, 2005 http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2005/russell150805.html

"Too Many Human Rights" Feminist International Radio Endeavor, date unknown http://www.fire.or.cr/disabilities/notas/dis-russell.htm

"Capitalism and Disability" co-written with Ravi Malhotra Socialist Register Vol. 38 http://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5784#.Ur8kD42E5U-

"Disablement, Oppression, and the Political Economy" Journal of Disability Policy Studies Fall 2001 vol. 12 no. 2 pp. 87–95 http://dps.sagepub.com/content/12/2/87.short

Notes

  1. ↑ "Election 2012: Right, Left, Disabled?", "New Mobility," Sept. 1, 2012
  2. ↑ "Marta Russell obituary". Newsocialist.org. Retrieved 2014-01-06. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Marta Russell", Zocalo, July 10, 2009
  4. ↑ "Is the ADA Enough?: An Interview with Marta Russell", Colorado Quarterly Magazine,2002 A&H Publishing Corporation

References

  • Russell, Marta Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract Monroe: Common Courage Press, 1998


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