“Not only was she going to prove you wrong and the entire system wrong, but she wasn’t just doing it for herself.”
Judy says the first time she realized how other people saw her was when she was about 8 years old. Another kid walked up to her and asked, “Are you sick?”
Judy felt normal. But it was clear that the rest of the world didn’t see her that way. She realized that all over again when it came time to go to school. The way Judy told it, from the beginning, her life was a fight. Sandy Ho says that for people with disabilities, that is not unusual. Even now.She would describe it as very much isolation. We shared that in common.
Yes. And this was 1990, in a suburb of Massachusetts that is well-resourced in special education programs and public school access, and still the presumption that my physical visible disability could not be a part of me at 5 years old was decided for me. When I told Judy this story, it was one of the first moments when I realized that this was not a unique experience to just me. That was what the public school system did.
This was a foundational piece of civil rights law in the disability movement. But what was also a part of this key civil rights law was the lack of enforceability at the time. And so while it was written onto this piece of paper, there was no real entity that was saying, “Hey, the government actually needs to uphold this.” And so Judy basicallyThese protests revolved around one part of the Rehabilitation Act: Section 504.
says that any organization getting federal funds cannot exclude people with disabilities. That has all kinds of implications: buildings need to be accessible, have ramps and curb cuts. But years after the Rehabilitation Act passed, many still didn’t.are still today the longest federal sit-in and takeover of a federal building. This was happening not just in San Francisco, where Judy was, but all across the country, and I think that is so revolutionary, particularly in the ’70s.
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