By Jan Willis — 2019
To change the world, says Jan Willis, we need hope. And hope grows from nonviolent actions, no matter how small.
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In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black,...
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