There, you can also watch a beautiful and powerful documentary about his journey titled "Mark - A Call to Action", directed by Ron Small. The documentary is also available on YouTube at this link: youtu.be/M-TBzsOK5VY?...
🔗 For those who wish to learn more about Mark's life and contribution to the disability rights movement, I highly encourage you to visit the Mark Bookman Foundation website at: markbookmanfoundation.org
Poster for an internal seminar at Tokyo College titled “Disability publics in Japan: past, present and the future.” The event is organized by Tokyo College’s Re-Imagining Academic Practice Research Group. It features a conversation with disability activist Kai Kawabata, chaired by Dr. Dilmurad Yusupov (Tokyo College), with brief remarks from Professor Nagase Osamu (Ritsumeikan University) and Professor Carolyn Stevens (Monash University). Japanese–English translation will be provided.The seminar honors the legacy of Dr. Mark Bookman and discusses his book Disability Publics: Making Accessibility in Modern Japan, exploring historical and contemporary solidarity within Japan’s disability movements.Event details: Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 4–6 pm, Tokyo College, University of Tokyo, 6F seminar room.The poster includes a photo of Kai Kawabata using a powered wheelchair and an image of the book cover. The design uses green tones with geometric shapes highlighting speaker information.
👨🏻🦼🇯🇵 Today at Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo we are hosting a seminar: “Disability Publics in Japan: past, present and the future.” The event honors the legacy of Dr Mark Bookman and discusses his posthumous book Disability Publics: Making Accessibility in Modern Japan.
A new joint report by Uzbek Forum for Human Rights and @hrw.org - watch this space!
#Cotton #Farmers #Uzbekistan
📽️🧑🦼 A short film about my colleague Murod Egamov’s everyday life is out as part of Gazetauz special Iroda project. Through his own story, he speaks about the barriers disabled people face due to inadequate infrastructure in #Tashkent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgUQ...
📋♿️ Starting from tomorrow #Uzbekistan is conducting a first-ever population and agriculture census since 1989. Gazetauz talked with disability rights activists and myself to find out why disability questions ARE NOT included in the census questionnaire.
Read in Uzbek: www.gazeta.uz/oz/2026/01/1...
In AMBASSADORS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS, Maria Cristina Galmarini examines the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar international disability movement and shaped its content and its course.
Available now: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Rethinking transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union through the lens of disability
Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article co-authored by Monika Baar 👉 loom.ly/QXde0v4
📚 #SocialHistory #DisabilityHistory
