
There is one marginalized group to which any of us could become a member at anytime: the disabled. And there are no amount of supplements or devices that can completely overcome a disability, whether it be physical or mental, in societies that too often treat the disabled as afterthoughts or burdens, as people not worthy of living. Too often, disabled people's voices are left out of advocacy for the marginalized, perhaps precisely because that could be any one of us. We all like to believe that if we just take care of our bodies and minds, we'll be fine. But life doesn't work that way, and those whose voices we need to hear are ignored, not only in the present, but in their own history....
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