Mike Ervin is a writer and disability rights activist living in Chicago. He blogs at Smart Ass Cripple, “expressing pain through sarcasm since 2010.”
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We Need Each Other: Why People with Disabilities Should Defend the Rights of Care Workers
Mike Ervin