In recent years, Polish scholarship has gained access to important texts from the American tradition of disability studies (...). However, despite its rich theoretical contributions, the American branch of disability studies emerged from a historical, political, and cultural context fundamentally different from that of the European—especially British—disability rights movement. Today, these two traditions jointly constitute the foundation of global disability studies, and any attempt to draw a sharp distinction between them would be misleading. While the American tradition has been shaped primarily by cultural and literary scholarship, the British tradition is rooted in grassroots activism and the lived experience of institutional oppression. One of the leading figures of this latter tradition was Vic Finkelstein, whose selected writings are presented here to Polish readers in translation for the first time.