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A review by avarla
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
5.0
Inspiring... ok, just kidding.
Haben Girma shows how the world works for deaf and blind people - or doesn't work a lot of the time. From her pre-teens with a bit of hearing and seeing left to her late twenties meeting the leaders of her country, she leads through spotlight of her life and how her advocacy for disabled people has changed some things for the better, even though it should have been a lot easier in the first place.
Mind-boggling for me was the case against Scribd. Being unwilling to change an application for monetary reasons or simple laziness is one thing, but claiming that you can discriminate against people because you're only working on the internet is simply brazen (brash? presumptuous? Whichever has a rather mean connotation).
All in all a very good memoir which I really enjoyed and which fit my preference of memoirs: people I have never heard of but who I definitely should know more about, because they are showing me a world view quite different to mine.
Haben Girma shows how the world works for deaf and blind people - or doesn't work a lot of the time. From her pre-teens with a bit of hearing and seeing left to her late twenties meeting the leaders of her country, she leads through spotlight of her life and how her advocacy for disabled people has changed some things for the better, even though it should have been a lot easier in the first place.
Mind-boggling for me was the case against Scribd. Being unwilling to change an application for monetary reasons or simple laziness is one thing, but claiming that you can discriminate against people because you're only working on the internet is simply brazen (brash? presumptuous? Whichever has a rather mean connotation).
All in all a very good memoir which I really enjoyed and which fit my preference of memoirs: people I have never heard of but who I definitely should know more about, because they are showing me a world view quite different to mine.