The Disability Book Archive

[A book cover. The background is white with various figures, coloured red, yellow or blue, in different dance positions. Text is edited over this, down the length of the book. From top to bottom it reads:
“Dancing” in large, black capitals
“a graphic memoir” in small, red, lowercase cursive,
“After” in large, black capitals,
“T E N” in large black capitals, with a large space between each letters,
“By Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber” in very small, red writing at the very bottom of the cover. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Ableism
• Severe Allergic Reaction
• Suicidal Thoughts
• Medical Content and Trauma
• Sexual Assault
• Toxic Relationships
• Abandonment

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Summary:

In late 2004, Vivian Chong’s life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis), left her with scar tissue that would eventually blind her. As she was losing her sight, she put down as many drawings on paper as she could to document the experience. In Dancing After TEN, Chong teams up with cartoonist Georgia Webber — whose graphic autobiography, Dumb, chronicled her own disability — to trace her journey out of the darkness and into the spotlight. Chong now expresses her art through singing, stand-up, drumming, running, and dancing. This graphic novel is an inspirational tale and a powerful work of graphic medicine.

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Notes:

If you want to know more about TEN, there is some information here.

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Archivist Comments:

I found this book while searching for graphic novels that are about or contain references to disability and then spent a good twenty minutes afterwards researching TEN. The fact that this is also a “graphic memoir” interests me as well.

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