Intergenerational conversation between two disabled women: Judith Heumann and Alice Wong

Recorded December 13, 2018 Archived December 13, 2018 57:59 minutes
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Id: APP597131

Description

On January 9, 2018, Alice Wong interviewed Judith Heumann for the Disability Visibility Project with the StoryCorps app. Judy talked about growing up as a Jewish disabled girl in Brooklyn, her family, and the need for disabled people to find one another. The text transcript for this interview can be found at:
http://bit.ly/2Gdtuc1


Image description: an outdoor patio with Alice Wong [left], an Asian American disabled woman in a wheelchair. She is wearing a mask over her nose connected to a tubing for her ventilator. She is wearing a long-sleeved navy shirt and a sporty aqua blue vest and holding a paper coffee cup. On the right is Judith Heumann, an older white woman with short wavy brown hair. She is sitting in a power chai and wearing glasses, a dark green short-sleeved top and a scarf tied into a knot. Both are looking at the camera and smiling.

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  • Judith Heumann
  • AliceWong

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