Resources for Less than Whole:

Here's a super short video clip that basically says the message we want to get across. It also mentions Ed Roberts, one of the characters I focused on in my original pitch. <http://www.itvs.org/films/lives-worth-living
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Other resources for learning about Ed Roberts (who would make a good central character if we wanted to follow one person from childhood to this moment to beyond): <http://www.wid.org/about-wid/booklet%20with%20speech.pdf
> It gives you a good sense of his personality, which I really like.

There's also more resources (interviews) on other possible main characters, Kitty Cone and Judith Heumann, here (as well as some info on the disability rights movement in general):

http://www.rollingrains.com/archives/000513.html

http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt1w1001mt;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00019&toc.depth=1&toc.id=div00019&brand=calisphere

http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9v19p0k9;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00064&toc.depth=1&toc.id=div00064&brand=calisphere

http://www.wherevertheresafight.com/timeline/issue/disability_rights

And I also found a website with research about how disabled characters are often treated within the graphic novel genre so we can recognize and avoid some of the problematic tropes. Seriously, on page 3 it lists all the tropes of disabled characters that were present in comic books. It's pretty interesting: http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/slr/vol13/SLR_SeeingDifferent.pdf


And one last infographic about how disabilities are treated at Stanford, because it's super on-point: http://static.stanford.edu/2014/09/29/lack-sessibility-at-stanford/

These are all the resources that were on my original pitch, I just thought it would be helpful to include a description of what they were so you can pick and choose which seem interesting.