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"Welcome to Holland" is a prominent essay, written in 1987 by American author and social activist Emily Perl Kingsley, about having a child with a disability. The piece is given by many organizations to new parents of children with special needs issues such as Down syndrome. As a testament to its popularity, several individuals have received ...
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]
The ABC Clio Companion to the Disability Rights Movement (ABC-Clio, 1997). ISBN 978-0-87436-834-5; Pelka, Fred. What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012). ISBN 978-1-55849-919-5. Shapiro, Joseph P. No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement (Times ...
An Act for the purposes of making further and better provision for the care and protection of children and for those purposes to require the preparation, by certain providers of services to children, of child safeguarding statements; to require certain persons to make reports to the Child and Family Agency in respect of children in certain circumstances; to require certain persons to assist ...
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (born April 21, 1975) is a Canadian-American poet, writer, educator, and social activist. Their writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans.
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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]
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