Made Local with Mary Crossley, Author of Embodied Injustice

Presented with FISA Foundation. Author Mary Crossley takes stock of the sometimes-vexed relationship between racial justice and disability rights advocates and interrogates how higher disability prevalence among Black Americans reflects unjust social structures. For example, these groups share harsh histories of medical experimentation, eugenic sterilizations, and health care discrimination. Yet the similarities in inequities experienced by Black people and disabled people and the harms endured by people who are both Black and disabled have been largely unexplored. In her book, Crossley also suggests reforms to advance health equity for disabled people, Black people, and disabled Black people.