You may leave a memory, photo, video or “light a candle” for Sandy on this Neptune site:
https://neptunesociety.com/obituaries/lynnwood-wa/sandra-goodwick-12004663
Online Memorial may now be Viewed
You can now watch the online remembrance of Sandy Goodwick on YouTube. Long-time disability, mental health consumer/survivor and facial difference activist Sandy Goodwick, 74, died of an apparent heart attack on September 20, 2024. Here is the November 17 memorial for Sandy led by Rev. Phillip Schulman. Thanks Judene Shelley for making this video:
Anyone can also find this YouTube recording by simply going to YouTube and searching for this phrase:
sandy goodwick remembrance
More info about Sandy by David Oaks
Sandy & I had presented earlier in the month at the annual conference of the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy. Here is the brief bio Sandy submitted to NARPA:
“Sandy had deep roots in disability activism. As a child, she experienced bullying by looking ‘different.’ Sandy went on to successfully teach for over 4 decades. Sandy & I met via UU mental/physical disability advocacy on FB. Sandy was working to co-author a book, Mind Your Justice, with me. Sandy lived on the sacred, ancestral homelands of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, near what is now called Port Angeles, WA.”
Sandy presentation at a Unitarian Universalist Church:
Sandy gave a presentation: “From the Inside Out — from Shame to Disability Justice, Pride — and Belonging.” She did this at her Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (QUUF) during the Sunday Service on August 13, 2023 (this starts at timestamp 24 minutes).
Rev. Phillip Schulman recommends this song when reflecting on Sandy’s legacy:
Sandy’s Wish at her Last Presentation
At the 2024 annual meeting of the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA), September 2024 in Portland Oregon, Sandy gave a workshop with me. Sandy and I both used the metaphor of the bridge: We need to bridge the psychiatric survivor movement, the mental health consumer movement, and the wider disability movement. One priority: Sandy Goodwick was a key facial difference activist and a bridge builder.
In her slides she especially hoped we would build bridges with these groups and individuals
Changing faces
https://www.changingfaces.org.uk/
Face equality international
https://faceequalityinternational.org/
Disability and social interaction lab
https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/sps/dsil
Disability advocacy and research network
https://darndisability.org/
Kathyleen Bogart, Oregon State University Professor
kathleen.bogart@oregonstate.edu
Unitarian Universalist Networking
Sandy was a UU for many years, and this was clear in her memorial. Sandy had chosen to leave her brick & mortar church this Fall 2024, and she said she was going to become involved in the UU that is beyond State boundaries:
Church of the Larger Fellowship
https://www.uua.org/beliefs/get-involved/where/clf
Thanks to everyone who made the below event today, Sunday, November 17, 2024, a powerful, moving, and heart-felt Memorial. Here is the announcement we used:
Memorial for Sandy Goodwick
On Zoom, Sunday, 17 November 2024, 5 pm et, 2 pm pt
From Judene Shelley:
Here is the invite that everyone can send out. Please circulate to your networks of people who knew Sandy.
Please join for a remembrance of Sandy Goodwick, Sunday, November 17 at 2 pm Pacific time; 3 pm Mountain time; 4 pm Central time; 5 pm Eastern time.
At the age of 74, long-time disability and mental health consumer/survivor activist Sandy Goodwick died of an apparent heart attack on 20 September 2024. Please come for a remembrance of Sandy led by Reverend Phillip Schulman. And will include time to share your memory of Sandy (5 minute maximum please).