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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:26, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Laura Hershey

Laura Hershey was a remarkable individual with muscular dystrophy. I want to add her contributions to society and her relationship with the disability movement.

I would like to include this in my Laura Hershey edit:

“She was an intelligent, funny, active writer, activist and mother,” said Robin Stephens, Hershey’s partner. “She was a genius who lived with disability and lived well.” Hershey wrote many books of poems, magazines, and online at a number of websites. Her works center on the battle to preserve individual dignity in a world slanted to see the debilitated as invaluable or useless. Her poem “You Get Proud By Practicing” is one of her most famous works. Hershey was famous for protesting the muscular dystrophy telethons of Jerry Lewis, which enticed the view that people with muscular dystrophy were not worth living. During a protest of the telethon in 2001, she was cited for trespassing. In an excerpt that embodies her work, Hershey further cautions people with disabilities against being constrained to feel thankful for necessities. Hershey likewise offered workshops, discourses, readings, and different introductions to an extensive variety of associations. Some recent appearances include a workshop session on queer disabled bodies at the 2009 Creating Change conference. She was also a keynote speaker and read her poetry at the annual meeting of the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) and facilitated a two-day meeting between disability and labor activists. She is well-known for her activism and promotion for a large number of social justice issues and disability rights. Hershey has also served on a few committees related to policy on health care, guided organizations on community outreach for people with disabilities, and participated in grassroots activism with groups such as ADAPT, Not Dead Yet, and the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition. She has also led or taken part in campaigns to confront the negative imagery from the Jerry Lewis Telethon, to advance Medicaid home and community-based services, to dismiss Social Security work disincentives, to raise awareness of LGBTQ individuals with disabilities, to advance the rights of home care specialists, and more. The Presidents on Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities and acknowledged her activism and presented the 1998 President’s Award to Hershey.

December 2017

Hello, I'm My name is not dave. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Laura Hershey, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! !dave 20:14, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

References

Please use a more complete reference. This allows one to know what they are linking to or to help repair wp:linkrot. Try using the wp:template {{cite web}}. You can easily use this with wp:RefToolbar/2.0 which is available with the Wikipedia editor. "Templates" at the left of the toolbar. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 20:26, 9 December 2017 (UTC)