Rebecca Sanchez is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. Her interests include transatlantic modernism, disability studies, and poetics. She is the recipient of a 2015–16 AAUW American Fellowship, and her first book, Deafening Modernism, is available from New York University Press.
Rebecca Sanchez
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Design with Disability
The “Accessible Icon” by Brian Glenney and Sara Hendren began as design activism: the artists defaced existing disability access symbols with red and orange vinyl stickers. Today, their so-called “active wheelchair” logo has been adopted as the new standard by institutions and cities around the world. This clean, “accurate” image greeted visitors to the Access […]
