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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
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