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CHICAGO CELEBRATES DISABILITY PRIDE!

7/25/2015

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Last weekend Chicago hosted its 12th annual Disability Pride Parade with Grand Marshall, Senator Tom Harkin. This marked my  seventh year marching in the parade! My first was in 2009 when I was a young and impressionable first-year doctoral student. Since then, I come bearing munchkin doughnuts (or rather, doughnuts of short stature) and a smile. My favorite part of the parade is gathering up our participants and getting to talk to people representing all the other groups and organizations. Usually, I see a friendly face or two there that I haven't seen in years. In many ways, the Chicago Disability Pride Parade is like coming home. 
We marched as part of the UIC contingent, which includes the Institute on Disability & Human Development, the Great Lakes ADA Center, the Disability Studies Student Council, and the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities. We also had several students joining us from other organizations and programs at UIC such as Invincible to Invisible: API Pride and folks promoting doctoral student, Kat Perez's, new Disability Rights Blog. 
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Photo taken by UIC doctoral candidate, Carli Friedman.
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    A Philadelphian living in Chicago and doing the Disability Studies thing. I'm still figuring out what to do with this space.

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