News from the UM Association of Ministers with Disabilities, 10/09/15

Mental Illness is the wrong scapegoat
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2014/12/mental-illness-wrong-scapegoat-shootings/

DHA publication award: 'I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb': Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American South"
https://networks.h-net.org/node/4189/discussions/85926/ann-2015-dha-publication-award-best-articlebook-chapter

Sarah Griffith Lund on her book, Blessed are the Crazy
http://sarahgriffithlund.com/2015/10/03/365-blessed-days/

Stigma and language
http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/blog/stigma-or-discrimination-language-matters

UM Disability blog: start a Deaf ministry
http://umdisability.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-not-begin-deaf-ministry-leo-yates-jr.html

Invisible hearing aids -- wrong message:
https://hearbetterwithhearingloss.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/invisible-hearing-aids-misguided-message/

When America believed in eugenics
http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2010/12/disabled-america-immigration

UM Disability blog: Pretending
http://umdisability.blogspot.com/2015/10/pretending-diane-mettam.html