{"product_id":"being-heumann","title":"Being Heumann","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*This is NOT a comic! But we read prose too sometimes!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner. Published by Penguin. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 240 pages, Prose, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism--from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington--\u003ci\u003eBeing Heumann\u003c\/i\u003e recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParalyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy Heumann began her struggle for equality early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a \"fire hazard\" to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher's license, to leading the section 504 sit-in that led to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Judy's actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people around the globe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCandid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann's memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64052024246602,"sku":"beingheumann","price":21.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8894\/4822\/files\/IMG_21872_b1986c56-2f34-4463-a72e-caffeb70c176.jpg?v=1792689813","url":"https:\/\/littledeercomics.ie\/products\/being-heumann","provider":"Little Deer Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}