TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blake,Melissa
TI  - Beautiful people: my thirteen truths about disability / 
SN  - 9780306830426
AV  - HV1553.B53 A3 2024
U1  - 362.4092B 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books
KW  - Blake, Melissa
KW  - Human rights workers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
ER  -