"I've learned that disability pushes us to examine ourselves and the difficult questions about the American past. Whic…"

"Although people with disabilities share social stigmatization, and sometimes are brought together by common experienc…"

"...disability is often elusive and changing. Not only do people with disabilities have a history, but the concept of …"

"This book will make clear that people with disabilities have lived and continue to live with disproportionately highe…"

"Human variability is immense. We see and hear in varying degrees, our limbs are of different lengths and strengths, o…"

"As an author I'm careful about the words that I use. Words matter. For example, characterizing someone as "wheelchair…"

"All of us go in and out of the category of disabled throughout our lives, some of us more permanently, others of us n…"

"we see today how caretakers are some of the poorest paid people in society, and at this point they’re who we’re all r…"

"I think at the core of capitalism is the valuing of some kinds of labor more than others. That’s simply at the core, …"

"I think the big irony is that industrial labor was really disabling, whether that was coal mines or shoemaking or far…"