Category: Misc

• ‘Growing Up Disabled in Australia’- Findlay, Carly

  ‘My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.’ ‘I didn’t grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.’ ‘We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.’ ‘The diagnosis helped but it didn’t fix everything.’ ‘Don’t fear the…

  The Disability Archives

  19th Oct 2023

  Age, Anthology, Author, Autobiography, Book Type, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, F, Genre, Memoir, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Short Stories, Short Story/ies, Terminal Illness

  Anthology, Australia, Autobiography, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability Representation, Disability Studies, Essay Anthology, Essays, Growing Up…In Australia, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Politics, Series, Short Stories, Short Story Anthology, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘The Future Is Disabled’- Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi

  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disabled. Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about the last two years of surviving COVID-19 as a disabled femme of color in an ableist world that isn’t interested in protecting disabled folks. They also discuss mutual aid and disabled joy in the face of isolation…

  The Disability Archives

  16th Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Anthology, Author, Book Type, Chronic Illness, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, Genre, LGBTQ+, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, P, Queer, S

  Academic, Anthology, Art, COVID-19, Disability Justice, Disability Politics, Essay Anthology, Essays, LGBTQ+, Non-Fiction, Politics, Queer, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘Feminist, Queer, Crip’- Kafer, Alison

  In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as…

  The Disability Archives

  15th Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, K, LGBTQ+, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Queer

  Academic, Body Politics, Disability Justice, Disability Politics, Disability Studies, Feminsim, LGBTQ+, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Exile and Pride’- Clare, Eli

  First published in 1999, Exile & Pride established Eli Clare as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability. With this critical tenth-anniversary edition, the groundbreaking publication secures its position as essential to the history of queer and disability politics, and, through significant new material that boldly interrogates and advances the…

  The Disability Archives

  14th Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Book Type, C, Cerebral Palsy, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Genderqueer, Genre, LGBTQ+, Memoir, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Physical Disability

  Accessibility, Cerebral Palsy, Disability History, Disability Politics, Genderqueer, LGBTQ+, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, Politics, Queer History, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience, USA

• ‘Everything Is an Emergency’- Katzenstein, Jason Adam

  A New Yorker cartoonist illustrates his lifelong struggle with OCD in cartoon vignettes frank and funny Jason Adam Katzenstein is just trying to live his life, but he keeps getting sidetracked by his over-active, anxious brain. Mundane events like shaking hands or sharing a drink snowball into absolute catastrophes. Jason has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a…

  The Disability Archives

  14th Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Book Type, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Genre, Graphic Novels, K, Memoir, Mental Health, Misc, Neurodivergent, Non-Fiction, OCD

  Graphic Novel, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Neurodivergence, Non-Fiction, OCD, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘Every Cripple a Superhero’- Keller, Christoph

  Most stories of disability follow a familiar pattern: Life Before Accident. Life After Accident. For Christoph Keller, it was different: his childhood diagnosis with a form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy only revealed what had been with him since birth. SMA III, the ‘kindest one’, allows those who have it to live a long life, and…

  The Disability Archives

  14th Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Book Type, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Aid User, Genre, K, Memoir, Misc, Mobility Aid User, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, SMA | Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Wheelchair User

  Accessibility, Disability Accommodation, Inaccessibility, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, SMA | Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Spine, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience, Wheelchair User

• ‘Disfigured’- Leduc, Amanda

  In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you’re beautiful and walk on two legs. After all, the ogre never gets the princess. And since fairy tales are the foundational myths of our culture, how can a girl with a disability ever think she’ll have a happy ending? By examining the ways that…

  The Disability Archives

  14th Oct 2023

  Academic, Adult, Age, Author, Book Type, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Studies, Fairy Tales, Genre, L, Literature Studies, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction

  Academic, Adult, Disability Justice, Disability Representation, Disability Studies, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Literature Studies, Non-Fiction, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Disability Visibility’- Wong, Alice

  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…

  The Disability Archives

  1st Oct 2023

  Age, Anthology, Author, Book Type, Contemporary, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Essays, Genre, Memoir, Misc, Misc., Multi-Genre, Non-Fiction, Short Stories, W

  Anthology, Disability Visibility, Essay Anthology, Essays, Non-Fiction, Short Stories, Short Story Anthology, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘Disability Pride’- Mattlin, Ben

  An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging, fast-paced prose.…

  The Disability Archives

  1st Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Book Type, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Historical, Journalism, M, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Sociology

  Activism, American History, Disability Activism, Disability History, Disability Justice, Disability Politics, Disability Pride, History, Journalism, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The ADA, USA

• ‘Dirty River’- Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi

  In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, carrying only two backpacks, caught a Greyhound bus in America and ran away to Canada. She ended up in Toronto, where she was welcomed by a community of queer punks of colour offering promises of love and revolution, yet she remained haunted by the reasons she left home in…

  The Disability Archives

  1st Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Autism, Book Type, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Fibromyalgia, Genre, LGBTQ+, Memoir, Misc, Neurodivergent, Non-Fiction, P, Queer, S

  Autism, Canada, Chronic Illness, Disability Culture, Fibromyalgia, Immigration, LGBTQ+, Memoir, Neurodivergence, Non-Fiction, POC, Queer, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA