7 PLAYS about physical difference.(Excerpt)

Facets of the experience of disability from the insiders' perspective

though the disability rights movement grew up alongside other identity-based movements in the 1960s and '70s, the particular forms of discrimination disabled people have suffered--attitudinal, employment and architectural barriers; educational and social segregation; institutionalization; even forced sterilization--kept many isolated from one another. This made the formation of disability subcultures difficult, if not impossible. Only after several decades of disability activism--which has brought about ...

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