Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract

A WARNING FROM AN UPPITY CRIP. Marta Russell exposes the neoliberal drive to shrink social services with the Reinventing Government mantra. "We are dangerously close to a Jerry Lewis democracy where middlemen beggars and corporate CEOs getting huge paychecks may replace entitlements with charity," reveals Russell in her devastating analysis of the "reform" of the social safety net.

Marta Russell is a writer/producer whose investigative reporting earned her a 1994 Golden Mike Award for the best documentary from the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California.

Disabled from birth, Russell began writing when her disability progressed and she had to navigate the disability policy netherworld to survive. She has been published in numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, Z Magazine and the San Diego Union Tribune. She has a seventeen-year-old daughter and lives in Los Angeles.