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Judy Heumann

Disability-rights Activist

BY REBEKAH TAUSSIG

hen I learned that Judy Heumann had passed away on March 4 at 75, I felt anxious in a way I struggled to explain. Judy became disabled by polio around the same age I became disabled by cancer—both as toddlers. Raised in 1950s Brooklyn, Judy grew up in a world that never expected her to join it. When her mom hoisted her up the stairs to their

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