by GJ Pierce Leptien | Apr 17, 2021 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MINISERIES I was born in Germany to white American parents stationed in Frankfurt. My mother had always been worried she’d get pregnant but never really wanted children. My sister was born 8 years my senior. She was born unable to move her...
by GJ Pierce Leptien | Apr 9, 2021 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
An autoBIOGRAPHICAL MINISERIES Part One of how Thalidomide affected my life…. Do you remember that Steve Martin movie where his character starts out by saying “I was born a poor black child.” ? He said that cuz everyone he looked at, his whole...
by C. Jean Grover | Aug 25, 2020 | News Coverage, US Thalidomide Story
It’s time to register for the 1st session of the US Thalidomide Survivors 2020-21 Online Speaker Series! For this 1.5 hour session on 9/19/2020 8:00 AM PDT/11:00 AM EDT/4:00 PM Aberdeen, Scotland Time, we welcome Professor Neil Vargesson. Prof. Vargesson is...
by US Thalidomide Survivors | Mar 23, 2020 | News Coverage, US Thalidomide Story
The New York Times published a four-part article today about US Thalidomide Survivors. Reporter Katie Thomas, tells the story of a group of people, born in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s with birth defects consistent with in utero exposure to...
by US Thalidomide Survivors | Jan 19, 2020 | News Coverage, US Thalidomide Story
The Gatekeeper Coming soon, from Random House, “THE GATEKEEPER: Dr. Frances O. Kelsey and the Band of Unlikely Heroes Who Foiled the Greatest Pharmaceutical Scandal of the 20th Century” is an award-winning investigative book about the thalidomide scandal of the 1960s....
by C. Jean Grover | Jan 19, 2020 | Blog, Disability Rights, US Thalidomide Story
Thalidomide survivors can only go so far. I am sitting right now, looking upward at a glass ceiling right above my head, so close that it concerns me. I can see where I want to go, but I just can’t get there, due to a barrier. It was placed between my goals and me, 58...
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