Appreciation of Harriet McBryde Johnson in NY Times

Lawrence Downes wrote a nice appreciation of disability rights activist, attorney and author Harriet McBryde Johnson, who died June 4, in The New York Times June 12.

He writes: "The disabled certainly suffer. But everyone does, Ms. Johnson argued, and if the disabled face extra hassles and indignities in life, well, remedies for those things are all possible, and should be provided. Instead, the world is run by and for the nondisabled, and those who don’t measure up are infantilized, ignored and stockpiled in institutions that Ms. Johnson called 'the disability gulag.'"

The NY Times also published a long obituary of Harriet on June 7.