January 5: Lucy Gwin

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Today we celebrate American disability activist Lucy Gwin, founder of Mouth Magazine.

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Learn more about Lucy Gwin:

• Mouth Magazine 
• Donna Jackel, “A rabble-rouser who found a righteous cause,” Rochester Beacon, 16 December 2021.
• Lucy Gwin Papers, UMass Amherst Libraries, Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center.
• Odato, James M. “This Brain Had a Mouth,” nysarchivestrust.org.
• Odato, James M. This Brain Had a Mouth: Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.
• Justin Murphy, “Ten feet from a tornado: Rochester disability activist Lucy Gwin remembered in biography,” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 30 December 2021.
•  "Disabled protesters: No duty to die." Asheville Citizen-Times. 9 January 1997, page 4. 
• Disability History Association Podcast - interview with James Odato on Lucy Gwin, 2022.

 

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