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Laura Ann Hershey (August 11, 1962 – November 26, 2010) was a poet, journalist, popular speaker, feminist, and a disability rights activist and consultant. Known to have parked her wheelchair in front of buses, Hershey was one of the leaders of a protest against the paternalistic attitudes and images of people with disabilities inherent to Jerry Lewis's MDA Telethon. [1]
Moore is a co-founder of the disability performance art collective Sins Invalid. [5] [6] He currently serves as the Chair of the Black Disability Studies Committee for the National Black Disability Coalition. [7] [8] He co-authored a children's book called Black Disabled Art History 101. [9] [10]
A long-form poem, I Hope Some Lass Will Want Me After Reading All This, followed in 1987. [12] He also started publishing his poems in several autism newsletters in the UK and US. In 1990, an excerpt of his long-form poem was published in an issue of The Advocate, the Autism Society of America's newsletter. [13]
Disability advocate Dianna Temple will be Adrian College’s Disability Awareness Week Convocation speaker at 7 p.m. Monday, March 18, at Dawson Auditorium.
July is Disability Pride Month — it's held that month to recognize the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990 — and there's a colorful and meaningful banner to ...
The month is an extension of "National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week" originally observed during the first week of October beginning in 1945. [1] In 1962 the word "physically" was removed from that week to acknowledge the employment needs and contributions of individuals with all types of disabilities.
The observance of the Day aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. It also seeks to increase awareness of gains to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life.
“Aggressive comments of wanting to cause harm and push Nessa out of her wheelchair, or that she deserves her disability are two very gross and harmful comments that real disabled people ...