Disability Rights Now: Inside the Fight for Accessibility, Inclusion, and Independent Living
Disability Rights Now: Inside the Fight for Accessibility, Inclusion, and Independent Living
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Disability Rights Now brings you frontline conversations with the advocates, leaders, and changemakers shaping the future of disability rights. Produced by Disability Rights Podcasts, each episode features direct voices from the independent living movement working to protect and advance the civil rights of people with disabilities. If your organization wants to amplify your mission and share your stories, visit DisabilityRightsPodcasts.org or email [email protected] for more info about how we create a custom podcast for your cause.
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The podcast focuses on civil rights for people with disabilities, intersectional leadership, and the role of technology in facilitating inclusion, with episodes exploring topics like race and disability, inclusive hiring practices, and the political landscape affecting disability rights.
Disability Rights Now brings you frontline conversations with the advocates, leaders, and changemakers shaping the future of disability rights. Produced by Disability Rights Podcasts, each episode features direct voices from the independent living movement working to protect and advance the civil rights of people with disabilities. If your organization wants to amplify your mission and share your stories, visit DisabilityRightsPodcasts.org or email [email protected] for more info about how we create a custom podcast for your cause.
n this episode of Disability Rights Now, host Matt Shedd talks with National Council on Independent Living director Theo Braddy about his new memoir, From Shack to the White House: A Memoir of Four Lives. Theo traces his journey from growing up poor in the deep South, to acquiring a spinal cord injury at 15, to surviving a nursing home, becoming a family and community leader, and ultimately serving as a national voice for disability rights and independent living. He reflects on internalized ableism, the trauma of institutionalization, the power of knowledge, and what it meant to hear President Joe Biden call him “a man of great courage.” From Shack to the White House: A Memoir of Four Lives is available as an ebook through many platforms: https://books2read.com/fromshacktowhitehouse
You can order on Amazon as well: https://www.amazon.com/Shack-White-House-Memoir-Lives-ebook/dp/B0G3T182Q2
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