“The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the world.”

― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

From The Atlantic

Long COVID Has Forced a Reckoning for One of Medicine’s Most Neglected Diseases

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From TED

I'm not your Inspiration, Thank you very much



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From Factually!

The extraordinary history of the Disability Rights Movement with Judy Heumann

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