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Today we recognize Jillian Mercado, an American model and actress with spastic muscular dystrophy.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

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Learn more:

• Jillian Mercado (@jillianmercado) - Instagram

• Jillian Mercado

• Jillian Mercado's YouTube Channel

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Today we celebrate Michela Alioto-Pier, a paraplegic American politician and disability rights advocate.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

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Learn more:

• Former Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier - District 2

• PROFILE: Michela Alioto-Pier / Politics is in the blood for new supervisor

• Dust Up in San Francisco over Wheelchair Ramp : NPR

Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

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Today we celebrate the conclusion of the Section 504 Sit-Ins on this day in 1977!

Be sure to listen to the April 5 episode for additional context first.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)

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Learn more:

• Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
• April 28, 1977: Disability Rights Sit-Ins Force Enactment of Section 504 - Zinn Education Project
• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

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Today we remember the founding of Not Dead Yet, an American disability rights group started by Diane Coleman that opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

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Learn more:

• A Brief History of Not Dead Yet

• Assisted Suicide and Disability by Diane Coleman

Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

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Today we acknowledge the eugenic legacy of Buck v. Bell (1927), a U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the forced sterilization of people deemed unfit to reproduce.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)

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Learn more:

• Emma, Carrie, Vivian | Hidden Brain : NPR

• The Right to Self-Determination: Freedom from Involuntary Sterilization - Disability Justice

Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

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Today we remember South African disability rights advocate with osteogenesis imperfecta Madge Bester and blind American roller derby skater Sammy Skobel.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

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Learn more:

• Worlds former shortest woman, Madge Bester, passes away

• From Roller Derby To Skiing: Skobel Will Be Remembered - Journal & Topics Media Group

Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

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Today we celebrate neuroscientist and sensory substitution pioneer Dr. David Eagleman and blind Jewish-Algerian singer and musician Reinette L'Oranaise.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

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Learn more:

• Podcast – David Eagleman

• The Brain with David Eagleman

• David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans? | TED Talk

• The Blind Luminary of Arabo-Andalusian Music - World Jewish Congress

• Birth of Sultana Daoud | Jewish Women's Archive

• Reinette l'Oranaise - Nhabek Nhabek [Jewish-Arab music from Algeria]

Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

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Today we honor Polish photographer with visual impairment Zofia Nasierowska and Jamaican reggae singer and polio survivor Apple Gabriel!

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)

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Learn more:

• HISTORY | Apple Gabriel

• Zofia Nasierowska's Google Doodle

Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound