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Olivia and Raven are black, blind women, passionate about shedding light on issues regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Get political and personal with them as they share their perspectives on living at the intersection of disabled, black, and women in the US.
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Thursday May 12, 2022
Thursday May 12, 2022
Olivia and Raven discuss Helen Keller’s activism and advocacy, the ways in which she is often sanitized, and dissect her article advocating for eugenics: “Physicians Juries for Defective Babies.”,
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Discussion Summary:
01:09: Topic intro, some of the ways Helen Keller is often inaccurately depicted and sanitized.
04:04: Helen Keller’s achievements and activism.
11:55: Keller’s ableist and disability elitist attitudes.
17:04: The Baby Bollinger medical case that inspired Keller’s article expressing her support for eugenics.
29:17: Dissecting Helen Keller’s article: “Physicians Juries for Defective Babies,” quality of life and the “worthwhile existence.”
36:29: Deciding cases for “defective babies” as an everyday choice, and comparing and contrasting criminal court with a physicians’ court.
43:51: Potentials for abuse of power and mistakes in the physicians’ court, and considering it cowardly to allow severely disabled babies to live.
53:06: The association between disability and potential for criminality.
55:17: Outro.
Episodes Referenced:
Misconceptions About Disabled Women and Motherhood Part2
https://isquared.podbean.com/e/misconceptions-about-disabled-women-and-motherhood-part2/
Black Disability History Series Day 2: Eliza Suggs
https://isquared.podbean.com/e/black-disability-history-series-day-2-eliza-suggs/
Learn More!
Helen Keller, Not Quite the Nice Lady Who Campaigned for Peace
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/helen-keller-quite-nice-lady-campaigned-peace/
Three Big Ableist Myths About the Life of Helen Keller
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-big-ableist-myths-about-life-helen-keller-180963793/
The Short Life and Eugenic Death of Baby John Bollinger
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Baby-Bollinger
Helen Keller: Physicians Juries for Defective Babies, Article in the New Republic, 1915
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