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Today is #NationalDogDay!
Time to re-examine the roles dogs have played in #DisHist!
For centuries, artists have shown dogs accompanying blind subjects, performers & beggars across the world, suggesting that dogs lived/worked alongside disabled handlers.

The black experience of polio was indelibly marked by racism. Many doctors in the early #20thc believed in race based ‘immunity’ to polio among African Americans. Segregation and racism also impacted the opportunities for treatment/rehabilitation.
#DisHist #histmed

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The healing wells were especially sought after to heal eye diseases and even blindness. Those seeking a cure would rise at dawn, followed the well’s pattern or prescribed ritual actions & bathed the eyes in the well’s water.
#DisHist #FolkloreThursday

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A changeling was a fairy child that had been left in place of a human child stolen by the fairies. Changelings had large teeth, thick neck or skull or congenital differences. The theme of the disabled changeling child are found across Europe.
#DisHist #FolkloreThursday

Histories of disability activism are often centered in the minority worlds/Global North, despite the long narrative of #DisabilityRights activism across the world. In these photos, blind African women activists meet for seminar in Addis Ababa in 1981.
#DisHist #DisabilityTooWhite