Disability womens biography
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I am a thirty-year-old Asian woman and I work in my family's furniture business in Mombasa, Kenya. I have a disability caused by a spinal injury, but this is perhaps the easier part of my problem. Being a Kenyan Asian complicates my situation in ways that those outside my community might not easily realize; because Asians tend to relate more within than outside their social circles, a disabled person faces profound isolation within the group. Disabled Asian Female — how neatly the interplay between these three words captures the total weight of both the complexity and immensity of who and what I am. It has been a rough journey, on all three counts. And even though mine has been an insular world, it was still a sad discovery to realize that the prejudices that I have encountered amongst the Asian community in Mombasa exist amongst other Kenyan communities as well. As I contemplate the smooth finish of all the freshly scented furniture that has become a permanent feature of my life, I realize that daily I etch the diary of my life into the grain of the beautiful wood in a manner that reminds me of the huge distance between law school and this furniture shop. But why am I jumping ahead of the narrative?
I started school at the age of three years but my physical activity w
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Judith Heumann
By Emma Rothberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Predoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies, 2020-2022
Judith “Judy” Heumann has been a part of almost every pivotal moment in the disability rights movement. Considered “the mother” of the movement, she was a tireless advocate for the disabled community. Heumann improved accessibility and opportunities for the estimated 56 million people in the United States and one billion people around the world with disabilities.
Judy Heumann was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents, Wener and Isle Heumann, were German Jewish immigrants who emigrated to the United States in the mid-1930s. Many of Heumann’s family members who remained in Germany were murdered in the Holocaust. The eldest of three children, Heumann felt championed by her parents. Her father worked long hours at a butcher shop and called his wife “Mighty Mite” because she would never take “no” for an answer.
When Heumann was born, polio had reached epidemic levels. A disease that could paralyze, parents feared their children would catch it. When Heumann contracted polio at age two, there was no vaccine (it would not be introduced until the 1950s) and she lost her ability to walk. Heumann’s parents did not know about access for
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Inspiring Women Interchange Disabilities Who Made History
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