Introduction: Too defiant? -- Part I: The ADA generation grows up. Creating rights -- Successes, disappointments, and shortcomings -- What is pride--and why does it matter? -- Disability studies and the afterlife of cultural icons -- Part II: Presentation and representation. Neurodiversity and autistic self-advocacy -- Disability justice -- Visibility, community, and context -- The politics of beauty -- Casting and miscasting -- What's so funny about disability? -- Part III: The continuing evolution of disability activism. Health care disparities: lessons of COVID-19 -- Not dead yet vs. the right to die -- "Easy to get in [but] impossible to get out": the struggle for deinstitutionalization and Medicaid dollars -- Sparks of activism everywhere -- Epilogue: Trending or truly empowering.
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