"I'm very tired of being thankful for accessible toilets. If I have to be thankful for an accessible bathroom, when am I ever gonna be equal in the community?"
—Judith Heumann

We in the disabled community are still fighting for basic human rights in 2021. We still don't have the rights to life, liberty, or pursuit, and as always we are faced with trying to justify our right to exist over the deafening cries of the wealthy few who do. Writing in 2002, Mart Russell highlights the human rights disaster that exists for disabled people in the States while pointing out the ways in which capitalism produces the (still) prevailing ideology that we have no right to exist. This work says a lot that needed to be said about being disabled in a capitalist system, carrying on the critique that disability is defined in relation to the mode of production, but be warned that this topic is a dark one, the book does not shy from this. 

Shout-out to Adrestia's Revolt for reading this and many other works on their YouTube channel.

Note: It is noteworthy that this book came prior to the boom in at-home disability care, and this context should be held in mind when the author speaks about this model of care as something liberatory. It did not quite work out that way, but this does not detract from the quality of the book on the whole.