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(Dis)Ability & Healthcare

“A Disability Justice framework understands that all bodies are unique and essential, that all bodies have strengths and needs that must be met.”

– Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Things to read:

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Articles

- Nobody left behind but wanting to run like hell 

- Alison Kafer, "Compulsory Bodies: Reflections on Heterosexuality and Able-bodiedness

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Books

- A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen

- The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay

- Defectives in the Land by Douglas C. Baynton

- Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan

- An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

- Deadly Monopolies by Harriet A. Washington

- Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next by Timothy Faust

- Medicare For All: A Citizen's Guide by Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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