Curb-Cuts across gender lines

Wake up to the achievements of the disability rights movement

This August will mark 40 years since I was diagnosed with what we eventually discovered was limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. Though it’s taken me many years to accept my condition, it’s progressed slowly over the past four decades — and in that way, it’s somewhat akin to the movement in the United States that’s focused on rights for the disabled. Shifts in attitudes toward our marginalized population over the past several decades have developed s…

Curb-Cuts across gender lines

Introduction With the passage of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, familiar yellow grated curb cuts began to be installed in cities across the U.S. As disability advocates were celebrating a long awaited legislative victory, Americans of all walks of life began to discover firsthand the personal benefits.  Of course curb cuts assisted wheelchair users and blind citizens, but also the mother or the delivermean. Strollers, carts, and dolli…