Recognizing disabled people's histories, intellectual traditions, and ongoing struggles as part of a lineage worth knowing, honoring, and building upon.
Sor Juana's work survives and inspires because her legacy was preserved and studied; many disabled people's contributions are erased or forgotten. Building disabled community requires documenting and honoring the intellectual, artistic, political, and cultural work of disabled predecessors—learning their strategies for survival, resistance, and flourishing. This means disabled mentorship, oral histories, archives of disabled life, and celebration of disabled thinkers across history. It means recognizing disability culture and community as valuable inheritances. When disabled young people learn that Sor Juana fought for intellectual freedom, that disabled activists built the independent living movement, that disabled artists and writers created beauty and meaning—they inherit pride, strategy, and possibility. Sor Juana's example teaches us that legacy matters: disabled people deserve to be remembered, studied, and built upon.
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