It's all over the disability blogs -- in fact, I learned the news through a disability blogging community to which I belong.
Harriet McBryde Johnson -- lawyer, lady, activist, crip -- has died. From a National Lawyers Guild announcement:
The National Lawyers Guild sadly announces the loss of the co-founder and Treasurer of the Disability Rights Committee of the NLG, a leader of the Disability Liberation Movement, and so much more, our own Harriet McBryde Johnson. She went to work on June 3, 2008, put in a full day at the office, rolled home, and died suddenly, fifty years young. Harriet taught that we all die, but that it is the quality of the life we lead that makes the difference. It is the death she would have chosen, and a life that has left a giant wheelchair print.I wish I had the words right now to describe how sad this makes me, but I only just learned of this half an hour ago. I need time to process my feelings. Hell, I'm in the lab, so I need time to
feel my feelings.
