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Author: Nick Winges-Yanez

Nick Winges-Yanez, Ph.D., LMSW is the director of the Disability Studies program at the Texas Center for Disability Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project.
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A Disability Should Not Invalidate a Person's Worthiness—Especially During a Pandemic

A Disability Should Not Invalidate a Person’s Worthiness—Especially During a Pandemic

Nick Winges-Yanez

Despite years of work by human rights activists, despite all the legal gains achieved by countless grassroots organizations working over the last seven decades, an alarming number of people are returning to a dark, uncivilized way of thinking: viewing folks who are disabled as somehow less valuable human beings.

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