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Blog Highlights
LPA, Awareness
Dual Donahue Dialogue Differences
by Angela Van Etten
August 9, 2021
A two-time guest of Phil Donahue, the father of daytime talk shows, I appeared on August 8, 1984 in Chicago and October 12, 1989 in New York City. In 1984, a producer asked Robert Van Etten, president of Little People of America (LPA), to name panelists; in 1989, a producer invited me to join a panel based on my many media interviews resisting dwarf
Disability Rights
Ask the Author About “Always an Advocate”
by Angela Van Etten
August 2, 2021
What is the book about?
A demonstration of advocacy’s power to end discrimination and disrespect towards people with dwarfism and other disabilities in volunteer leadership, entertainment, public transportation, public buildings and facilities, emergency operations, voting,
Little People of America
Measure Up for Independence
by Angela Van Etten
July 5, 2021
Independence is highly valued and celebrated by nations, people groups, and individuals. For some, independence relates to coming of age and, for others, it’s a prolonged struggle with many battles along the way. For people with dwarfism, independence in the built environment is a prolonged and ongoing
Dignity
Dwarf Tossing Throwback
by Angela Van Etten
March 8, 2021
Dwarf tossing masquerades as a ‘sport’ when barroom bullies compete for prize money awarded to whoever throws a dwarf the farthest. From 1985 to 2012, it was like a perennial weed and you never knew who would sow the seeds—a newspaper columnist, a bar owner, a business promoter, a dwarf wanting to be tossed, a radio