This morning, NBC’s Today Show featured a short piece on the lives of Leah Smith and Joe Stramondo. What the piece did not mention is their scholarship and advocacy work, focusing instead on their family life. Both have contributed work, either singly or as co-authors, to IJFAB Blog and to IJFAB, and both are featured in the forthcoming documentary Far From the Tree based on Andrew Solomon’s book of the same name.
You can see their Today Show interview on family and parenting and happiness here, and here is a short clip from the film (this clip focuses on Smith and Stramondo).
Here is some of the work that Joe and Leah have written together for IJFAB Blog:
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Why TrumpCare’s Medicaid Cuts are a Feminist Disability Rights Issue
- Dwarfism, Chemical Limb Lengthening, and Informed Consent
- Musings on the Value of Awareness (re: Dwarfism Awareness month)
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And here is just some of Joe’s solo work in bioethics and philosophy.
- Doing ethics from experience: Pragmatic suggestions for a feminist disability advocate’s response to prenatal diagnosis (in IJFAB)
- The Complicated Relationship of Disability and Well-Being (with Stephen M. Campbell, in Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal)
- Why Bioethics Needs a Disability Moral Psychology (in Hastings Center Report)
- The Distinction Between Curative and Assistive Technology (in Science and Engineering Ethics)
- How an Ideology of Pity Is A Social Harm to People With Disabilities (in Social Philosophy Today)