Category: D

• ‘It’s Just Nerves’- Davio, Kelly

  “When the body attacks itself, the crisis is not just of bones and blood, but of beauty and boundaries. ‘Strange men have had their hands on me for days,’ Kelly Davio observes during a plasma treatment. Her skillful portrait of myasthenia gravis does not exist in a vacuum. It’s Just Nerves is in keen dialogue…

  The Disability Archives

  19th Oct 2023

  Age, Anthology, Author, Book Type, D, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, Genre, Memoir, Misc, Myasthenia Gravis, Neurological, Non-Fiction

  Anthology, Body Politics, Disability Representation, Essay Anthology, Essays, Healthcare, Myasthenia Gravis, Nerological Condition, Non-Fiction, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘Can Bears Ski?’- Antrobus, Raymond

  Is Little Bear ignoring his friends when they say hi, or is something else going on? A discovery opens new doors in a tale for kids with deafness and all children learning to navigate their world. Little Bear feels the world around him. He feels his bed rumble when Dad Bear wakes him up in…

  The Disability Archives

  15th Oct 2023

  A, Age, Author, Book Type, Childrens, D, Deaf, Disability, Fantasy, Fiction, Genre, Hearing Disability, Picture Books

  Animals, Bears, Childrens, Deaf, Fantasy, Fiction, Hard of Hearing, Hearing Disability, Picture Book, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education’- Dolmage, Jay Timothy

  Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of…

  The Disability Archives

  8th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, D, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Sociology

  Ableism, Academia, Academic, Accessibility, Architecture, Disability in Education, Disability Studies, Education, Eugenics, Higher Education, History, Inaccessibility, Inclusivity, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Issues, Sociology, Submitted Book