Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century
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"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcu... Full description
- PART 1:
- BEING
- Unspeakable Conversations /
- Harriet McBryde Johnson
- For Ki'tay D. Davidson, Who Loves Us /
- Talila A. Lewis
- If You Can't Fast, Give /
- Maysoon Zayid
- There's a Mathematical Equation That Proves I'm Ugly
- Or So I Learned in My Seventh Grade Art Class /
- Ariel Henley
- Erasure of Indigenous People in Chronic Illness /
- Jen Deerinwater
- When You are Waiting to Be Healed /
- June Eric-Udorie
- Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison /
- Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson
- Common Cyborg /
- Jillian Weise
- I'm Tired of Chasing a Cure /
- Liz Moore
- PART 2:
- BECOMING
- We Can't Go Back /
- Ricardo T. Thornton, Sr.
- Radical Visibility : a Disabled Queer Clothing Reform Movement Manifesto /
- Sky Cubacub
- Guide Dogs Don't Lead Blind People. We Wander as One /
- Haben Girma
- Taking Charge of My Story as a Cancer Patient at the Hospital Where I Work /
- Diana Cejas
- Canfei to Canji : the Freedom to be Loud /
- Sandy Ho
- Nurturing black disabled joy /
- Keah Brown
- Last but Not Least
- Embracing Asexuality /
- Keshia Scott
- Imposter Syndrome and Parenting with a Disability /
- Jessica Slice
- How to Make a Paper Crane from Rage /
- Elsa Sjunneson
- Selma Blair Became a disabled Icon Overnight. Here's Why We Need More Stories Like Hers /
- Zipporah Arielle
- PART 3:
- DOING
- Why My Novel is Dedicated to My Disabled Friend Maddy /
- A.H. Reaume
- Antiabortion Bill You Aren't Hearing About /
- Rebecca Cokley
- So. Not. Broken. /
- Alice Sheppard
- How a Blind Astronomer Found a Way to Hear the Stars /
- Wanda Díaz-Merced
- Incontinence is a Public Health Issue
- And We Need to Talk About It /
- Mari Ramsawakh
- Falling/Burning : Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Being a Bipolar Creator /
- Shoshana Kessock
- Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time /
- Ellen Samuels
- Lost cause /
- Reyma McCoy McDeid
- On NYC's Paratransit, Fighting for Safety, Respect, and Human Dignity /
- Britney Wilson
- Gaining Power through Communication Access /
- Lateef McLeod
- PART 4:
- CONNECTING
- Fearless Benjamin Lay : Activist, Abolitionist, Dwarf Person /
- Eugene Grant
- To Survive Climate Catastrophe, Look to Queer and Disabled Folks /
- Patty Berne, as told to and edited by Vanessa Raditz
- Disability Solidarity : Completing the "Vision for Black Lives" /
- Harriet Tubman Collective
- Time's Up for Me, Too /
- Karolyn Gehrig
- Still Dreaming Wild Disability Justice Dreams at the end of the world /
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Love Means Never Having to Say ... Anything /
- Jamison Hill
- On the Ancestral Plane : Crip Hand-Me-Downs and the Legacy of Our Movements /
- Stacey Milbern
- Beauty of Spaces Created for and by Disabled People /
- s.e. smith.