Bibliograph

Beautiful people, my thirteen truths about disability, Melissa Blake

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Label

Beautiful people, my thirteen truths about disability, Melissa Blake

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

photographs

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beautiful people

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Melissa Blake

Sub title

my thirteen truths about disability

Summary

In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake's work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she took to Twitter and defiantly posted three smiling selfies, all taken during a lovely vacation in the Big Apple

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