A review by angreadseverything
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann, Kristin Joiner

informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book has been on my tbr for years since I saw the documentary Crip Camp. Heumann did so much for the disability rights movement, and as someone who was born in a world where accessibility services are mostly commonplace, it's unfathomable to think of a world where people with disabilities had to fight for ordinary things like ramps in schools and government buildings, or even the right to be a teacher. RIP to one of the greatest activists of my life who made the world a better place.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Cancer, Sexual assault, Blood, Antisemitism, and War

Heumann was a disability right's activist so the entire book is about her life and her work where many people treated her differently/worse because of her disability (abelism)

Heumann's father had cancer, Heumann mentions how msny disabled people are sexually assaulted, Heumann's family is Jewish and her parents were German immigrants who left Germany around the time of the Holocaust (anti-Semitism, war)