Though she was seven years old when the ADA was born, the early experiences of disability disappeared from Margaret Boyle’s life. When disability returned twenty-four years later, it held different meanings for how she approached both her body and the world it lived in. Continue Reading Body-Citizens: Finding Our Way Through Biography, Narration And Advocacy
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The Barrier-Free Meeting that Helped Build a Movement
Jessica Martucci narrates how a group of disabled scientists and advocates working for the AAAS put science at the heart of the disability rights movement. Continue Reading The Barrier-Free Meeting that Helped Build a Movement