Disability Activists

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    • Discovering What Matters Most
    • By: Timothy Shriver
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • A moving personal journey and a meditation on some of the greatest wisdom and the greatest contradictions of our society. Is disability to be feared or welcomed, pitied or purged....

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    • An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
    • By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
    • Narrated by: Ali Stroker
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 526 ratings
    • A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism - from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington - Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect....

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    • A Memoir at the End of Sight
    • By: Andrew Leland
    • Narrated by: Andrew Leland
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • Witty, winning, and revelatory, The Country of the Blind is a personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own.

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    • The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
    • By: Haben Girma
    • Narrated by: Haben Girma
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 328 ratings
    • The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage....

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    • An Activist's Life
    • By: Alice Wong
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project....

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    • A Life-Changing Injury and the Inspirational Journey to Overcome the Odds
    • By: Arash Bayatmakou
    • Narrated by: Arash Bayatmakou
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • After 30 years of a healthy, rewarding, and exciting life, I wake up in a hospital bed unable to move. The neurosurgeon leans down and breaks the news: You won't regain any function....

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    • Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
    • By: Eddie Ndopu
    • Narrated by: Eddie Ndopu
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • An inspirational and truly intersectional memoir from global humanitarian and disability-justice advocate Eddie Ndopu—a queer, Black wheelchair user....

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    • By: Gare Thompson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many amazing things....

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    • One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
    • By: Elsa Sjunneson
    • Narrated by: Elsa Sjunneson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else....

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    • A Memoir of Living and Being Seen with ALS
    • By: Jeremy Schreiber
    • Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Jeremy Schreiber was on top of the world—athletic, newly married, successful. And then something went terribly wrong. In this moving memoir, he shares his journey after he received a terrifying diagnosis: ALS....

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    • Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • By: Brad Meltzer
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Various
    • Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • Length: 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • When Helen Keller was very young, she got a rare disease that made her deaf and blind. Suddenly, she couldn't see or hear at all, and it was hard for her to communicate with anyone. But when she was six years old, she met someone who changed her life forever: her teacher, Annie Sullivan....

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    • The Political Crusades of Helen Keller
    • By: Max Wallace
    • Narrated by: Christine Lakin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller’s journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability....

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    • A Black Woman's Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement
    • By: Dara Baldwin, Keith P. Jones - foreword
    • Narrated by: Ja'Air Bush
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Dara Baldwin shares her journey to becoming a disability activist and policymaker in DC and calls out the systemic racism happening in disability rights and also ableism occurring in other justice movements.

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    • Stories of Remarkable People Living with Physical Disability
    • By: Lily Collison, Kara Buckley
    • Narrated by: Lily Collison, Kara Buckley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Nineteen people from across the globe, ranging in age from 20 to 70-plus, tell their stories of living and thriving in diverse fields - in sport, the arts, medicine, business, and more....

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    • By: Carly Findlay
    • Narrated by: Carly Findlay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This honest, outspoken, and thought-provoking memoir by award-winning writer and appearance activist Carly Findlay will challenge all your assumptions and beliefs about what it is like to have a visibly different appearance....

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    • The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann
    • By: Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Judith Heumann, Vivien Mildenberger
    • Narrated by: Ali Stroker, Judith Heumann
    • Length: 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
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    • From a very young age, Judy Heumann heard the word NO. When she wanted to attend public school, the principal said NO. When she wanted her teaching license, the New York Board of Education said NO. Judy and people with disabilities everywhere were tired of hearing “NO”....

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    • Biography of the American Author, Disability Rights Advocate, and Political Activist
    • By: Kelly Mass
    • Narrated by: Chris Newman
    • Length: 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
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    • Helen Adams Keller was an American author, handicap rights champ, political activist, and speaker who lived from June 27, 1880 to June 1, 1968. She was born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, and following a bout of health problem at the age of 19 months, she lost both her sight and hearing....

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    • By: Ron Kovic
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • As the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Ron Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a California VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement....

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