One way that many people with disabilities combat ableism is through Disability Pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog against disablism on May 1] Reference

Disablism, also known as ableism, is "the discrimination or prejudice against people with disabilities, especially physical disabilities.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog against disablism on May 1] Reference

Some FWD are decrying the "ableism" theme of the story line while at the same time demanding recognition of "disablism".    From Wordnik.com.  [hazel8500] Reference

Fiona Pilkington inquest: how ableism can lead to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

Fiona Pilkington inquest: how ableism can lead to suicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

That said, I am not comparing racism, or sexism to ableism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

Educating yourself and others about ableism and transphobia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hate crime in New Mexico] Reference

May 1st, 2006 at 10:15 am will you be blogging against ableism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Link Farm and Open Thread #21] Reference

I would agree from an early statement that this is ableism at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? WHERE ARE THE MEN? » Sociological Images] Reference

Racism, ableism, and classism with the access to evacuating safely.    From Wordnik.com.  [They are not the only refugees, just the most visible ones for the moment] Reference

Racism, ableism, and classism with the access to evacuating safetly.    From Wordnik.com.  [They are *Americans,* not “refugees”!] Reference

I'm reading: Fiona Pilkington inquest: how ableism can lead to suicideTweet this!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiona Pilkington inquest: how ableism can lead to suicide] Reference

I want to look at the ableism in the idea that spoiling a movie is shameful behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Roger Ebert a disability activist?] Reference

Don't let the terminology scare you: "disablism" is an alternative word for "ableism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Carnivals new and upcoming, and the second annual BADD] Reference

That racism, sexism, ableism, etc. is bad for your health, at if not quite so obviously?.    From Wordnik.com.  [an unexpectedly deep question on wis.dm « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference

It turns out that this was not an isolated incident of ableism at Abercrombie and Fitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just In Case You Didn’t Have Enough Reasons to Avoid Abercrombie & Fitch « Gender Across Borders] Reference

Womanist Musings: Fiona Pilkington inquest: how ableism can lead to suicide skip to main.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiona Pilkington inquest: how ableism can lead to suicide] Reference

Mom of Moo hears another mother's ugly tale of ableism by a pediatrician at the hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disability Blog Carnival #2!] Reference

I also think Les is on target when he connects this to other ism–ableism, classism, and sexism.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Racism and Empathy (or the Lack Thereof)] Reference

My chronic illnesses not only changed my status, but forced me to see just how pervasive ableism is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

My earlier post on feminist issues discussed a variety of oppressions including class, race, ableism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

Incidently, I would also make this contention about sexism, heterosexism, ableism, classism, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunch-O-Links/Open Thread (While the Amp’s Away The Rachel Will Play Edition)] Reference

You do not know whereof you speak, but the fact that you think you DO know, is evidence of your ableism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hospital violated state law performing "Ashley Treatment"] Reference

Resolving the racism, sexism, ableism and other undesirable traits in our own community should be a priority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bil Browning: Calm down: Rick Warren is not a big deal] Reference

I've seen a lot of stupidity and ableism, but I still can't figure out just how they justify this sort of thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [I am ordered to create a DNR so I can be killed, plus I get postcards!] Reference

Much of the ableism that we engage in is based in a failure to empathize and a desire to invoke able bodied privilege.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

I'm telling this story to illustrate how fundamentally ableism shapes our way of talking about parenting and disability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disability, Parental Martyrdom, and Reproductive Choice] Reference

By forcing her into the back room Abercrombie denied her right to exist and function alongside everyone else based ableism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

It has been a huge learning process, as I have sought to reduce the ways in which my language and behaviour support ableism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

You do not have to devote your entire life to crusading against sexism or racism or ableism any other kind of - ism there is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all.] Reference

I think the lack of understanding makes it easier to ignore the plight of others and leads to ableism and bigotry of many kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loss: the 'real' Bucket List] Reference

How is transparent social ableism and the attendant burden on individual caretakers qualitatively different from these problems?.    From Wordnik.com.  [“What if your mother was pro-choice?” II] Reference

If people started developing empathy on a large scale, not only would racism be greatly diminished, so would classism and ableism.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Racism and Empathy (or the Lack Thereof)] Reference

I think some of the people who would make that decision would make it because they are aware of the nature of ableism in our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Posts About Abortion, Prenatal Testing and Down Syndrome] Reference

My specific impairments are irrelevant to the general phenomenon of ableism and nondisability-centrism -- which is a word I just made up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

Almost all of the dicussion of ableism and reproductive choice I've encountered has been in the context of eugenics and prenatal screening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cooking up a fallacious (and offensive) comparison] Reference