Judith Heumann,Kristen Joiner

Being Heumann

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A powerful memoir of one of the most influential disability rights activists in U.S. history and her mission to create a more accessible world for all.
From fighting for educational access as a young person, to laying the foundation of the Americans with Disabilities Act as an activist, to ultimately working in Washington to establish disability rights as human rights, Judy's story will inspire readers to continue to fight for an accessible world for all.
Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust surviving parents, Judy Heumann's fight for equal access began early in life. She fought her high school, who initially denied her a diploma because of her inability to participate in gym; she fought her college who described her as “a fire hazard;" and she filed a lawsuit against the New York City school system, who denied her a teacher's license because of her paralysis, which she won.
As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the U.S….
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  • Nast Huertahas quoted2 years ago
    But the biggest thing he did was to get the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, passed. The Affordable Care Act allowed disabled people, who were getting denied health insurance because of preexisting conditions, to get insurance; it also made health insurance more affordable; and expanded Medicaid
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    Disability is a natural aspect of the human condition. As people live longer, as we fight more wars, as medical care continues to improve—more and more people who might have died in an earlier era will live. Perhaps with a disability. We should accept it. Plan for it. Build our society around it.
  • Nast Huertahas quoted2 years ago
    As disabled women, we didn’t have help from the women’s movement. We were always pushing to have our issues considered and supported by the women’s movement, but we were largely ignored.

    We were basically on our own.
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