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Disability rights are about more than awkward looks, ramps, and accessible parking. While these are daily issues for many, there are also major issues of policy, civil rights, and even life and limb that most non-disabled people haven’t even heard of.
Most people have no personal reason to know about these issues. But anyone who cares about social justice should be aware of them. Each involves fundamental questions of life, death, equal opportunity, and the fight against prejudice. Most importantly, each of these disability issues are solvable.
If you want to understand disability from a social justice perspective, here are seven issues you should know something about.