Thirty years ago today, July 26, I was a little boy living in Asmara, Eritrea. I was living my life in the shadow of what would become a thirty-year armed struggle for independence from Ethiopia, with the safety and security of my family still under constant threat amid a near-daily cacophony of sound and vibration … Continue reading On the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
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Living While Deafblind in the Age of Coronavirus
There has never been a moment in my life like the current global public health crisis. Although I was born in a country during a long-running armed struggle for independence, in which countless lives and livelihoods were both destroyed and under constant threat, I have never witnessed anything like what the novel coronavirus has caused … Continue reading Living While Deafblind in the Age of Coronavirus