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Concetta Jean "Connie" Panzarino (November 26, 1947 – July 4, 2001) was an American writer and activist for disability rights and LGBTQ rights.
Jun 19, 1977 · Connie Panzarino is a woman who cannot walk, whose hands move feebly and whose head sometimes slumps involuntarily to the side, but she can move people to action as few others can.
Apr 26, 2023 · Writer, activist and artist Connie Panzarino was born in 1947 with the rare disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type III, formerly called Amytonia Congenita. Throughout a childhood filled with both pain and joy, she strove to define herself: "I knew I was different.
Mar 21, 1994 · In this deeply moving and eloquent memoir, Connie Panzarino describes her decades of struggle and triumph, her relationships with family members and long-time lover Ron Kovic (author of Born on the Fourth of July ), her eventual turn to lesbianism, and her years of pioneering work in the disability rights movement.
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In this deeply moving and eloquent memoir, Connie Panzarino describes her decades of struggle and triumph, her relationships with family members and long-time lover Ron Kovic (author of Born on the Fourth of July), her eventual turn to lesbianism, and her years of pioneering work in the disability rights movement.
Connie Panzarino was a lesbian author and self-described disability activist. Born with spinal muscular atrophy, she chronicled the journey she undertook to discover her sexuality and the ableism she encountered in her 1994 autobiography, The Me in the Mirror.
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Aug 10, 2001 · Connie Panzarino of Jamaica Plain Massachusetts, born November 26, 1947, passed away July 4, 2001. Ms. Panzarino was an author, artist, activist, and psychotherapist with spinal muscular atrophy which by adulthood allowed only movement of her right thumb and facial muscles.
