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Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social |
It could be a wonderful moment to have a nuanced convo about ability, if the media would, I don’t know, be responsible? Read a book? We only have a couple of images of FDR in a wheelchair because he had an agreement with the media that they wouldn’t print any! Because there was a fear that…
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Jacqueline Antonovich
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1) He would be seen as weak 2) more importantly, he wanted to give hope to children with polio that it was possible to walk again. In my disability history class we talk about the pros and cons of making this choice!
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