Networking Leaders and Groups to
Remember Disability Activist Sandy Goodwick
By David W. Oaks
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. For exactly a year, Sandy and I usually communicated by Zoom each week to plan our book together, with the working title Mind Your Justice.
You may read some basic info about Sandy, along with remembrances, tributes, videos and photos, at a website called Neptune. You may at your add your own memories along with some of Sandy’s relatives, friends, colleagues:
https://neptunesociety.com/obituaries/lynnwood-wa/sandra-goodwick-12004663
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 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: