6/5/2023 0 Comments Novel take my hand![]() For example, the University of York published research in the BMJ Open that concluded the joint impact of cuts to healthcare, public health and social care since 2010 caused at least 57,550 more deaths of disabled people than would normally have been expected between 20. I think this jumped out at me, because people with disabilities are having a very hard time currently, something that able-bodied people aren’t always aware about. I knew this had happened in earlier in the century with Native American communities, so I shouldn’t have been surprised that it was still happening to African American women, especially where the woman has a disability too. I knew a lot about the movement in the U.K., US and Germany in the lead up to WW2, but this book shocked me because I had no idea that forced sterilisations were still happening in the 1960s and 70s. I’ve been interested in eugenics since I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on disability and 20th Century literature. This writer pulled me in from the very first page and Civil was as real to me as my poor other half. I was three quarters of the way through the book and even went to bed early so I could finish the story. In fact I loved it so much that my other half kept asking whether I was ok and I couldn’t understand why, until I looked at the clock and three hours had gone past without me speaking. ![]() I tell this story to stitch their names inside your clothes, too.” ![]() Their names are stitched inside every white coat I have ever worn. “A year never passes without me thinking of them. ![]()
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