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Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don’t Learn in School

By Olivia B. Waxman — 2020

Most students learn that Keller, born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Ala., was left deaf and blind after contracting a high fever at 19 months, and that her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her braille, lip-reading, finger spelling and eventually, how to speak. However, there is still a great deal about her life and her accomplishments that many people don’t know.

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Jane Gallop - The Phallus and its Temporalities: Sexuality, Disability, and Aging

Jane Gallop is the author of nine books and nearly a hundred articles that have provided an influential voice for feminism. Topics which include psychoanalysis and feminism; the Marquis de Sade; feminist literary criticism; pedagogy; sexual harassment; photography; and queer theory.

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LGBT Documentary: Gay, Old and Out

Meet the people who paved the way for LGBT rights. It has been a long hard fight to secure acceptance for the LGBT community, and the older people who fought the fight often get overlooked and forgotten.

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TEDxWomen -- Gloria Steinem and Salamishah Tillet

Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist who talks about the aging process as becoming more like ourselves. She reflects on her own process of aging, her writing, stereotypes, biases and the feminist movement.

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Nikki Giovanni Love, Work, Society

Nikki Giovanni, world-renowned American poet, writer, activist, and educator, appeared at the Governors State University Center for Performing Arts on November 7, 2012. She will speak on The Courage for Equality: Nikki Giovanni Love, Work, Society.

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“Maya Angelou” (Ep. 416) - Super Soul Sunday - Oprah Winfrey Network

In a 2013 sit-down with Oprah Winfrey for “Super Soul Sunday,” Dr. Maya Angelou revealed how her tough but tender-hearted mother transformed her life. Plus, the legendary author and Oprah’s “greatest spiritual teacher” shared her insights on aging.

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Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes

First published in 1980, Transitions was the first book to explore the underlying and universal pattern of transition. Named one of the fifty most important self-help books of all time, Transitions remains the essential guide for coping with the inevitable changes in life.

William Bridges, Susan Bridges

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Seeking Wisdom in Graying Matter

Geriatric psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dilip Jeste reveals how our brains compensate for physical aging and discusses an unexpected evolutionary advantage to growing old–gaining sage wisdom–which holds great promise to benefit society as a whole.

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Dr. Maria Sirois and Dr. Randy Kamen: Finding Fulfillment and Joy in Midlife

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