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Q&A with Sunaura Taylor, author of Disabled Ecologies

May 30 2024
Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship
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Did Margaret Mead Support Disability Rights?

Nov 07 2023
By Thomas W. Pearson, author of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born DifferentIn 1944, Margaret Mead helped banish a disabled child to a dismal existence in an institution.Mead was close friends with Erik Erikson, a psychoanalyst who would also becom
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