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Remembering Laurie Block, Architect of Disability History 1951-2026 By Graham Warder

 

On September 8 of this year, we lost one of disability history’s founding forces. After a long struggle between cancer and Laurie Block, cancer finally won. Her death came just a month after that of her husband, novelist John Crowley. Though Laurie, my long time friend and a colleague is gone,…