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DESCRIPTION:Thirty years since the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 
 awareness of disability rights, advocacy, and visibility has increased, yet 
 there is still a long way to go toward equality and understanding. 
 Examining the complexities of disability issues with wisdom, humor, and 
 honesty, author and disability advocate Rebekah Taussig offers a roadmap 
 for broadening our awareness and expanding our understanding to help build 
 a more inclusive world. \n\nGrowing up as a paralyzed girl in the 1990s and 
 early 2000s, Rebekah saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The 
 Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest 
 Gump). None of these depictions felt right because none of them represented 
 her lived experience-complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful 
 and fulfilling. Rebekah seeks to normalize the lived experience of disabled 
 persons while also advocating for improvements and a paradigm 
 shift-something that we all play a necessary part in. Disability affects 
 all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another.  \n \nWe need 
 more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity and in 
 Rebekah's latest book, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient 
 Disabled Body, she challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, 
 practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we build a more 
 radically inclusive future together. \n\nJoin Rebekah in conversation as 
 she talks about her book, her life and her work, and challenges us to work 
 together to build a more inclusive world.\n\nFree, suggested donation of 
 $10.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/10/18843674.php
SUMMARY:Views from An Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/10/18843674.php
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