I first heard about Ady Barkan when he confronted AZ Senator Jeff Flake about the Trump tax cut bill in 2017. Ady is a brilliant, radical activist attorney with Ivy League credentials who was diagnosed with ALS at 32. He received a death sentence at 32 a few months after the birth of his first child and a few months before the election of Trump.
His memoir tells his remarkable story. While the premise of his story sounds so sad (and IT IS COMPLETELY TRAGIC AND UNFAIR) it's also oddly hopeful and inspiring. He is using every tool he has to fight our slide into authoritarianism and fascism. Every time I think I don't feel like contacting this representative or participating in that civic event, I think of him and move forward.
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