Category: Memoir

• ‘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

• ‘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

• ‘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

• ‘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

• ‘Dancing after TEN’- Chong, Vivian

  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…

  The Disability Archives

  29th Sep 2023

  Age, Author, Blind, Book Type, C, Disability, Genre, Graphic Novels, Memoir, Misc, Non-Fiction, Scarring, Skin Condition, TEN | Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, Visual Disability, W

  Blind, Graphic Novel, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Rare Disease, Scarring, Skin Condition, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, TEN | Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis

• ‘Confessions of a Sociopath’- Thomas, M. E.

  The first memoir of its kind, Confessions of a Sociopath is an engrossing, highly captivating narrative of the author’s life as a diagnosed sociopath. She is a charismatic charmer, an ambitious self-promoter, and a cunning and calculating liar. She can induce you to invest in her financial schemes, vote for her causes, and even join…

  The Disability Archives

  23rd Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Anti-Social Personality Disorder, Author, Autobiography, Book Type, Disability, Genre, Memoir, Mental Health, Misc, Neurodivergent, Non-Fiction, Personality Disorders, Psychology, T

  Anti-Social Personality Disorder, Memoir, Mental Health, Neurodivergence, Non-Fiction, Personality Disorder, Psychology, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘The Collected Schizophrenias’- Wang, Esme Weijun

  An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esme Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to…

  The Disability Archives

  23rd Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Anthology, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, Genre, Memoir, Mental Health, Misc, Neurodivergent, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Schizophrenia, W

  Academic, Anthology, Disability Studies, Essay Anthology, Essays, Memoir, Mental Health, Neurodivergence, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Schizophrenia, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure’- Clare, Eli

  In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss. Clare grapples…

  The Disability Archives

  11th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Anthology, Author, Book Type, C, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, Genderqueer, Genre, LGBTQ+, Memoir, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Queer

  Academic, Anthology, Cure Politics, Disability Activism, Disability Politics, Disability Rights, Disability Studies, Essay Anthology, Essays, Healthcare, LGBTQ+, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book