Against the Erasure of LaVonnya Gardner

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Image of LaVonnya Gardner's AAC board with the written  and PEC symbol sentence "I use AAC everyday and I Love it" written on ...

How Not To Endorse An Anthology

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Tom Wiggins aka Thomas Greene Bethune, holding a copy of his composition Rain Storm Photo By W. L. Germon of Philadelphia - tennis*elbow,  P...

Flowers v Gopal: Ugly Laws, Amistad, Blind Tom Wiggins, & The Legal View of Autistic People

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"From the late 1860s until the 1970s, several American cities had ugly laws making it illegal for persons with "unsightly or disgu...

Guest Blogger in Poems for Social Justice

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Content: Description of court proceedings and racism. Sit with me BY: LYDIA BROWN If you still believe in a post-racial society or colorblin...