Family background in Champaign, IL
education in the South, Japan, and Washington, D.C.
muscular dystrophy diagnosis, health care, family support
University of Illinois, 1962-1967: Rehabilitation Center, civil rights activism, Students for a Democratic Society
political organizing for Socialist Workers Party, 1967-1974, in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Berkeley
political organizing for Center for Independent Living, including issues of curb ramps, attendant care, access to transportation (BART, AC Transit, SF Muni), architectural access
lesbian life in the United States and Mexico
HEW's 504 regulations: importance, sit-in to guarantee signature, implementation, 1977-1979
adoption of and raising of son, Jorge
working for disability civil rights at World Institute on Disability, CIL, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
reflections on feminism, racism, paternalism, medical insurance
reflections on Mary Lou Breslin, Judy Heumann, Ed Roberts, Hale Zukas, Brad Seligman
passage of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 1990
comments on substance abuse, environmental and mental disabilities, HIV-AIDS.
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