# Critical Disability: Power, Identity, and Systems Change

- By: Dora Raymaker
- Publisher: Portland State University
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Disability_Studies/Critical_Disability%3A_Power_Identity_and_Systems_Change_(Raymaker))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Disability_Studies/Critical_Disability%3A_Power_Identity_and_Systems_Change_(Raymaker)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/socialsci-201869/pdf

Despite how common disability is, people with disabilities remain both systemically and systematically disempowered, devalued, and marginalized. Critical disability offers tools to perceive the mechanisms behind these inequities. Once exposed, it is possible to understand them them. Once understood, it is possible to change them.