With new critical readings of history and the advent of globalization, disciplines across the Arts and Sciences have increasingly taken a global turn. This turn includes interrogating the Western assumptions that undergird theory and method and inviting in new voices and perspectives traditionally marginalized by academia in the Global North. Disability studies, however, have been slow to make this global turn yet have begun to expand its research program to include studies of disablement and disability emancipation in the Global South with the advent of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In order to become a truly global discipline, disability studies must be decolonized by questioning the governing assumptions made by disability studies “founding fathers” and the specific history, culture, and politics they represented. As such, key questions must be asked: What do disablement and disability emancipation look like in states that lack the Global North’s wealth and North American and Western Europe’s liberal democratic system? What roles do interdependence and care play in systems where states fail to protect rights? What identities around the world have been marginalized by the Western disability identity, and can these identities be emancipatory?