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J. Albert Mann

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J. Albert Mann is a disability activist, an award-winning poet and the author of eight published novels for children. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults and is the Partner Liaison for the WNDB Internship Grant Committee. She lives on a little fishing boat in the Boston Harbor with her first mate, Marcella, a ginger tabby.

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Rain is not Wet: An Adventure in Internalized Ableism

You have such a pretty face.

I doubt there is a physically disabled woman alive who hasn’t heard some version of that line. It is meant as a compliment. I am meant to thank whoever says it to me. And I have. Over and over. All my life.

Thank you…for looking past my body to find something you can honestly compliment.
Thank you…for taking the time out of your busy day to make me feel “good.”
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“Everyone was kept busy scraping for a bit of bread, and not out searching for two missing degenerates.”
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