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Jim Ferris was born with what he describes as a "mobility impairment." [1] His actual disability was that one leg grew shorter than the other. He was born in Cook County, Illinois, not far from Chicago where he later attended a school for crippled children. [2] Ferris is cited as saying that he was a “defective child” who found himself in a ...
t. e. Disability culture is a widely used concept developed in the late 1980s to capture differences in lifestyle that are caused or promoted by disability. [1] Disability cultures exist as communities of people around topics of disability. The cultures include arts movements, coalitions, and include but are not limited to: poetry, dance ...
John Lee Clark (born 1978) is an American deafblind poet, writer, and activist from Minnesota. He is the author of Suddenly Slow (2008) and Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience (2014), and the editor of anthologies Deaf American Poetry (2009) and Deaf Lit Extravaganza (2013). [1][2] Clark was the recipient of a ...
Laura Ann Hershey (August 11, 1962 – November 26, 2010) was a poet, journalist, popular speaker, feminist, and a disability rights activist and consultant. Known to have parked her wheelchair in front of buses, Hershey was one of the leaders of a protest against the paternalistic attitudes and images of people with disabilities inherent to Jerry Lewis's MDA Telethon. [1]
Dorothy Miles. Dorothy "Dot" Miles (née Squire; 19 August 1931 - 30 January 1993) was a Welsh poet and activist in the Deaf community. Throughout her life, she composed her poems in English, British Sign Language, and American Sign Language. Her work laid the foundations for modern sign language poetry in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota. " Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" is a poem by American poet James Wright. It is one of his best known poems, partially because of the tonal contrast between the content of the poem and its final line.
Leroy F. Moore Jr. Leroy F. Moore Jr. is an African American writer, poet, and community activist. He was born November 2, 1967, in New York City. [1][2] He is one of the founders of Krip Hop. Moore and his counterparts Rob DA' Noise Temple and Keith Jones started Krip Hop, a movement that uses hip-hop music as a means of expression for people ...
Welcome to Holland. "Welcome to Holland" is a prominent essay, written in 1987 by American author and social activist Emily Perl Kingsley, about having a child with a disability. The piece is given by many organizations to new parents of children with special needs issues such as Down syndrome.