Disabled people exist at Harvard — but you probably wouldn’t know it at first glance.
There are no classes focused on disability taught by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the undergraduate level this academic year. Very few dorms in Harvard Yard are fully accessible. Ableism is almost entirely absent from conversations about diversity and inclusion. Being disabled means facing prejudice and subconscious bias every day, being excluded from events, social gatherings, and opportunities, and feeling unwelcome in what is meant to be our home. As a result of the continued omission of our experiences, disabled students are surrounded by physical and systemic inaccessibility in every sphere of our lives at the College.
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