RespectAbility: Fighting Stigma Through Opportunity
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“The disabilities community needs to come out of the closet!”
Women's eNews (https://womensenews.org/series/in-focus-eye-on-changemakers/)
“The disabilities community needs to come out of the closet!”
You can’t judge which women will make it into the elite ranks of female firefighters just by looking at them.
Victims of LGBTQ violence have a unique range of concerns based on their living situations, immigration status and personalities.
“I didn’t learn anything from prison, but I learned a lot from the sisters I met there, and I wanted change.”
Many of founders of non-profits are visionaries…they also have much to teach us about showing up as your authentic self to the workplace.
The premise of the show is that answers to our most pressing problems will lie in historically marginalized communities.
They need a space where they can be themselves, express their feelings and emotions and be supported rather than judged.