Status Updates From No Pity: People with Disabi...

I’ve been reading this book for one of my classes. At first I didn’t know how I should track it on here because we’re not reading all of the chapters in order so I took it down, but I’ll do my best. I’m loving it so far; it’s really interesting and I’m learning a lot!

“Personal assistance, in the eyes of the disability rights movement, is an item of social liberation—just like a lightweight wheelchair or a bus lift—not a form of medical care.”

So Alexander Graham Bell is not someone to be very proud of

“[ADA] would not have happened without Gallaudet [University’s 1988 deaf protest] raising people’s consciousness.”