Me, The Bobbsey Twins, and Switched At Birth

[Edited to add: After the main text of the blog post below is an ever-growing collection of links to things that other people have said about why diversity in books, TV, and other popular culture matters so very much to people with disabilities, people of color, people who are GLBTIQA, and so forth. In order to make it easier for people to come back and browse only the newest added links, I will note the date of the latest update up here. Then you can scroll down to the bold faced text to find the start of the collection of links. Last expanded on 17 May 2014 at 5:30pm EST, 9:30 Greenwich Mean Time.]

This post was going to be about Switched At Birth.  And, it still is mostly about that, except that it isn’t mentioned until near the end of this post.  Because the more I struggled to write about…