MARK BOOKMAN AND THE 34TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADA
My trip to Tokyo to attend the world premiere of “Mark –
A Call To Action” allowed me to:
Honor a great disability advocate who died much too soon.
Further the
documentary subject’s legacy of inclusion.
Learn about
a terrific leadership program for people with disabilities.
Marvel at
clean, efficient and large accessible public restrooms.
Mark
Bookman, PhD, Tokyo College postdoctoral fellow and historian of disability
policy and connected social movements in Japan, made an everlasting impact on
disability inclusion.
In late
2022, he died at age 31.
Bookman had a rare variant of a metabolic-genetic condition.
It is not Muscular Dystrophy
but has similar impacts on the body.
He had a
heart transplant at age 10 and used a wheelchair for mobility most of his adult
life.
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