Vic Finkelstein

Finkelstein, a South African jailed and exiled for anti-apartheid activism, co-founded the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation with Paul Hunt and argued that disability was a form of social oppression comparable to racism. His best-known parable imagines a village built by and for wheelchair users, where the able-bodied keep banging their heads on low doorways and become the "disabled" ones. At the Open University he helped create one of the first courses taught from that perspective, and he pushed for organisations of disabled people rather than charities.