Disability Activists

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    • The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
    • By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
    • Narrated by: Ali Stroker
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism, Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance and inclusion in society....

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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: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 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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    • 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: 19-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Acting, Activism and Everything Else
    • By: Tommy Jessop
    • Narrated by: Jane Jessop, Tommy Jessop
    • Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A Life Worth Living is award-winning actor and activist Tommy Jessop's story - from his journey into acting and campaigning while showing his unstoppable determination, charisma, and love for life....

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    • By: Sir Bert Massie
    • Narrated by: Paul Broughton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • As a boy, severely disabled after contracting polio as a baby in working class Liverpool, Bert Massie found himself wondering why disabled people were expected to adapt to the world around them, not the other way round. In his teens, he began to campaign for rights for disabled people....

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    • An Activist's Life
    • By: Alice Wong
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
    • By: Laurie Ann Thompson
    • Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
    • Length: 11 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A powerful celebration of triumphing over adversity, Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah's inspiring true story - which was turned into a film, Emmanuel's Gift, narrated by Oprah Winfrey - is nothing short of remarkable....

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    • My Memoir
    • By: Robert Hoge
    • Narrated by: Robert Hoge
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Robert Hoge was born with a giant tumour on his forehead, severely distorted facial features and legs that were twisted and useless....

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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: 26-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • By: Carly Findlay
    • Narrated by: Carly Findlay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • On Disability, Equality and Ten-Point Turns
    • By: Lottie Jackson
    • Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this heartfelt, thought-provoking and often hilarious book, Lottie Jackson reflects on her experiences of living with disability....

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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: 05-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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: 11-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • By: Eddie Ndopu
    • Narrated by: Eddie Ndopu
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An inspirational and truly intersectional memoir from global humanitarian and social justice advocate Eddie Ndopu, Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw is Eddie's odds-obliterating story that illustrates what true leadership can look like....

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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: 29-09-21
    • 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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    • Facial Disfigurement and My Fight for Face Equality
    • By: James Partridge
    • Narrated by: James Gillies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • James Partridge was 18 years old in 1977 when his face and body were severely burned in a car accident. Refusing to succumb to society's expectations, James chose not to hide in the shadows, but to succeed despite his distinctive face and live a happy and hugely successful life....

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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: 09-07-24
    • 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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    • By: Sam Drummond
    • Narrated by: Tim Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • Lawyer and disability advocate Sam Drummond weaves a poignant, stirring and deeply compassionate tale of life on the fringes....

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