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Teaching Gaby Brimmer: A Disability Studies Approach
- Diálogo
- Center for Latino Research, DePaul University
- Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2014
- pp. 23-31
- 10.1353/dlg.2014.0015
- Article
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Gaby Brimmer (1979), the collaborative “autobiography” of the Mexican disability rights activist, narrates her childhood and young adulthood through the voices of Brimmer herself; her mother, Sari Dlugacz Brimmer; her caregiver, Florencia Morales Sánchez; and Elena Poniatowska. This article presents ideas and resources for teaching Gaby Brimmer from a disability studies perspective, in courses on contemporary Spanish-American literature, women writers, genre theory, human rights and activism, or in a disability studies course.