Virtual Launch for Beryl: The Making of a Disability Activist
Join us for a virtual book launch of Beryl: The Making of a Disability Activist by Dustin Galer.
Beryl Potter devoted herself to bettering the lives of other people with disabilities and made a tremendous contribution to disability awareness from the 1970s to 1990s. In this unparalleled biography, Dustin Galer demonstrates how Beryl Potter cracked the code of the social system that oppressed her. By wading into the weeds of her complicated life before and after her accident, Galer leaves readers with a complex portrait of a woman who defied and challenged gender and disability norms of her time, paving the way for disability justice.
With special guests:
- Judy Rebick
- Donna Thomson
- Geoffrey Reaume
- Michael Gottheil
Please register for the event here.
Dustin Galer is a professional historian with a PhD in history from the University of Toronto. He wrote the first book-length history of the Canadian disability rights movement, Working Towards Equity, and has published widely on the topic of disability history and labour.