The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The background is cream, with colourful pink, purple, blue, green and yellow triangles, of various sizes, in the centre. Text is edited over the top of them and reads:
The title “Disability Visibility” in large black writing,
The subtitle “First-Person Stories from the 21st Century” in slightly smaller black capitals,
“Edited by” in similar, black capitals,
The editor’s name “Alice Wong”, in large, black font. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Ableism
• Medical Content
• Medical Trauma
• Forced Institutionalisation
• Abuse (Emotional, Domestic, Physical)
• Hate Crime and Xenophobia
• Violence
• Rape and Sexual Assault
• Suicidal Thoughts

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Summary:

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.

From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.

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Notes:

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Other contributors:

• Harriet McBryde Johnson
• Talila A. Lewis
• Maysoon Zayid
• Ariel Henley
• Jen Deerinwater
• June Eric-Udorie
• Jeremy Woody
• Christie Thompson
• Jillian Weise
• Liz Moore
• Ricardo T. Thornton
• Sky Cubacub
• Haben Girma
• Diana Cejas
• Sandy Ho
• Keah Brown
• Keshia Scott
• Jessica Slice
• Elsa Sjunneson
• Zipporah Arielle
• A. H. Reaume
• Rebecca Cokley
• Alice Sheppard
• Wanda Díaz-Merced
• Mari Ramsawakh
• Shoshana Kessock
• Ellen Samuels
• Reyma McCoy McDied
• Britney Wilson
• Lateef McLeod
• Eugene Grant
• Patty Berne
• Vanessa Raditz
• Harriet Tubman Collective
• Karolyn Gehrig
• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• Jamison Hill
• Stacey Milbern
• S.E. Smith

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Archivist Comments:

I keep seeing references to Wong’s work everywhere, and it led me to the website for the Disability Visibility Project. I’ll link it at the end of this if you want to check it out. Apparently there’s also a version of this book about and adapted for young people, which I think is pretty cool. I’ll link that as well.

Disability Visibility Project

Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults)

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