Category: Creative Non-Fiction

• ‘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

• ‘Crip Kinship’- Kafai, Shayda

  The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community, and to call out ableist culture wherever it appears. Crip Kinship explores the art activism…

  The Disability Archives

  25th Sep 2023

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

  Activism, American History, Art, Art History, Disability Activism, Disability Art, Disability History, Disability Justice, History, LGBTQ+, Non-Fiction, Politics, Sins Invalid, Social Issues, Social Justice, Sociology, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA

• ‘Being Seen’- Sjunneson, Elsa

  A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else. As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of…

  The Disability Archives

  10th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Autobiography, Blind, Book Type, Creative Non-Fiction, Deaf, Deafblind, Disability, Genre, Hearing and Visual Disability, Hearing Disability, LGBTQ+, Memoir, Misc, Non-Fiction, Queer, S, Visual Disability

  Ableism, Activism, Deafblind, Disability Activism, Disability History, Disability Representation, Hearing and Visual Disability, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience