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Blog Highlights
Celebrations
DWARFISM TRILOGY COMPLETE: Recurring Pattern of Three Emerges
by Angela Van Etten
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
After 33 years, my dwarfism trilogy is complete. Three books in a little more than three decades about God’s three gifts of grace in my life—faith, hope, and love. As it happens, the word “three” has emerged as a thread in this cradle to retirement memoir series.
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,
Accessibility
MAKING PUBLIC COMMENTS: Time Wasted or Well Spent?
by Angela Van Etten
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Hope for people with dwarfism was rekindled on November 16, 1999. The federal Access Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to updates the ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG). The embers ignited because
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