I had a lovely post with all sorts of links and it was eaten by gremlins. So I'll let you do the searching (you're pretty darn good at it). I was privileged to be part of a "disability rights media support" listserv where Johnson was a member: she was damn funny in private as well. There was quite a stink in caucus and nationally about whether encountering Singer was to acknowledge that his point of view was debatable. In the grand Dick Godwin tradition, many activists privately shouted "You wouldn't debate Joseph Goebbels, would you?" Harriet was confident she could get the better of the situation; I know that this article is taught in rhetoric classes, so perhaps she gets her revenge in the end?
Her essay collection, Too Late to Die Young is wonderful. She brought insight and humor and wisdom to every topic, and there's a wide range in that book. Besides the Singer essay, she has some amazing stories! She was part of "Jerry's Orphans," former poster children who protested every Labor Day weekend when Jerry Lewis, a washed-up comedian, led a high-pressure telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. She was a party leader in her hometown Charleston, South Carolina and brought a delegation to the Democratic National Convention.
Her YA novel, Accidents of Nature explores a summer camp experience from the pov of a young woman with CP, meeting other disabled people for the first time. Friendship and hierarchies and mutual aid and some snogging and generally lovely.
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Date: 2015-10-27 11:34 pm (UTC)Her essay collection, Too Late to Die Young is wonderful. She brought insight and humor and wisdom to every topic, and there's a wide range in that book. Besides the Singer essay, she has some amazing stories! She was part of "Jerry's Orphans," former poster children who protested every Labor Day weekend when Jerry Lewis, a washed-up comedian, led a high-pressure telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. She was a party leader in her hometown Charleston, South Carolina and brought a delegation to the Democratic National Convention.
Her YA novel, Accidents of Nature explores a summer camp experience from the pov of a young woman with CP, meeting other disabled people for the first time. Friendship and hierarchies and mutual aid and some snogging and generally lovely.