Book Review: Surprised to be Standing: A Spiritual Journey
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disability, spirituality, disability culture
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Title: Surprised to be Standing: A Spiritual Journey
Author: Steven E. Brown
Reviewer: Janine Bertram Kemp
Publisher: Honolulu, HI: Healing Light, 2011
Paper: ISBN: 13: 978-1456521691
Cost: $19.95, 218 pages
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Janine Bertram Kemp, President, Disability Rights Center
Janine Bertram Kemp is President of the Disability Rights Center (DRC). Bertram Kemp, who has spinal disease and healed a psychiatric disability, is a writer who has worked for over twenty years in the cross-disability world – always with the optimistic goal of the full societal integration of people with disabilities. DRC distributes Tom Olin's disability history photos, completes oral histories, and gives presentations on the history of ADA, where the grassroots met power and triumphed. A member of ADAPT, she is committed to creating inclusive systems change. She lives in Zigzag, Oregon, where she has a spiritual and healing practice and may be contacted at [email protected].