Thirty for Thirtieth ADA Anniversary

As we near the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Stephen Kuusisto, Director of the Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach located in the Burton Blatt Institute, is posting thirty short essays about the law, the anniversary, and the cultural impact of #ADA@30. According to Stephen, “I’m doing this as a disabled person who’s lived half his life before the ADA. I’m reflecting on the ‘before and after’ of the law.”

Steve Kuusisto Planet of the Blind Book cover

  1. Thirty for Thirty on the ADA: “Bicycle-Blind & Belabored” 
  2. Thirty for Thirty on the ADA: “Coming out of the Dark”
  3. Thirty for Thirty on the ADA: Essay Three “Lyric Life”
  4. Thirty for Thirty on the ADA: Essay Four “Among”
  5. Thirty for Thirty on the ADA: “Outside the Box”
  6. Thirty for Thirty on the ADA: A Largely Lonely Triumph: Disability and Contemporary Higher Education
  7. Thirty for Thirty on the ADA: “Essay Seven: It’s Life Itself”
  8. Thirty for Thirty on the ADA: “Maybe Tomorrow”
  9. Thirty for Thirty on the ADA: “Masks”
  10. Thirty for Thirty on the ADA: “The Dumpster”
  11. The ADA @30: Essay Ten “Dear Friend”
  12. The ADA @ 30: Essay 11, “Rope-a-Dope”
  13. The ADA@30: “The Small Things”
  14. The ADA@30 “Campus Cocktails”
  15. The ADA @30: “Blindness is Easy”
  16. Disability Visibility: the ADA @30
  17. The ADA@30: The River
  18. The ADA @ 30: “Thinking of Rousseau”
  19. The ADA @ 30: “Beauty and the Built Environment”

  20. The ADA @ 30: “Superego Freedom”
  21. The ADA @ 30: “Limerick”
  22. The ADA @ 30: “Lock ‘Em Up!”
  23. The ADA @ 30: “The Happenstance Blues”
  24. The ADA @ 30 “Pollux and Castor”
  25. The ADA @ 30: “Nightmare”
  26. Self-interview, July 26, 2020 “The ADA @ 30”
  27. The ADA @ 30: Thinking of Auden
  28. The ADA @ 30: or “James Tate’s Egg”
  29. The ADA @ 30: “Disability and Design Justice”
  30. The ADA @ 30: “Why It’s Like Poetry”