To explore and describe the social and political landscapes of marginalization-based issues that confront people with disabilities, we believe it is paramount to make explicit the foundational understandings and beliefs that provide the grounding for our analysis. To convey this basic understanding of the broad categories of difference that have the potential to marginalize, both through conversation with people whose differences lead them to be marginalized and in a response by our readers to that conversation. To do so, for over a decade, the globe has been engaged in conducting research designed to open up social policy. More still, discussing the landscape of difference in general terms and disability in particular with our friends and colleagues in various groups of marginalized people. These conversations intend to awaken our understanding of the meaning, texture, and glass ceilings of those genuine differences that exclude people from the social and economic opportunities that the social structure of developed nations affords its residents. Furthermore, through the methodology of friendship, it is now evident that developing practical and insightful approaches from the tales of difference can and do inform policy development for our technology-dependent future. Specifically, the dialogue through living with social work colleagues and faculty members who have disabilities, developing joint research projects with them, and offering them, and then revising, our interpretation of their inputs through a series of group seminars and standing friendship engagements. More recently, we interviewed nine people with disabilities who teach at eight post-secondary educational institutions, collecting their first-person biographical narratives of social exclusion and inclusion.