Tag: Accessibility

• ‘We Move Together’- Fritsch, Kelly. McGuire, Anne. Trejos, Eduardo.

  A bold and colorful exploration of all the ways that people navigate through the spaces around them and a celebration of the relationships we build along the way. We Move Together follows a mixed-ability group of kids as they creatively negotiate everyday barriers and find joy and connection in disability culture and community. A perfect…

  The Disability Archives

  27th Feb 2024

  Author, Book Type, Cane User, Cochlear Implant, Contemporary, Crutch User, Disability, Disability Aid User, F, Feeding Tube User, Fiction, Forearm Crutch User, Genre, Guide Dog User, Hearing Aid User, Hearing Disability, LGBTQ+, M, Mobility Aid User, Mobility Scooter User, Non-Fiction, Picture Books, T, Ventilator User, Visual Disability, Walker User, Wheelchair User, White Cane User

  Accessibility, Activism, Animals, Canada, Cane User, Childrens, Cochlear Implant, Disability Accommodation, Disability Activism, Feeding Tube User, Fiction, Forearm Crutch User, Guide Dog User, Hearing Aid User, Hearing Disability, LGBTQ+, Mobility Aids, Mobility Scooter User, Multiple Disability, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, Picture Book, POC, Sign Language, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, Ventilator User, Visual Disability, Walker User, Wheelchair User, White Cane User

• ‘My Body and Other Crumbling Empires’- Medford, Lyndsey

  We are living in a world that is sick. Both literally sick, with 60 percent of adults in the US living with a chronic illness and rising rates of autoimmune diseases in particular, including long COVID, and figuratively sick, facing ever increasing rates of burnout, anxiety, and disconnection. As a writer, activist, and theology student,…

  The Disability Archives

  27th Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Behcet’s Syndrome, Book Type, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Genre, M, Memoir, Misc, Non-Fiction

  Ableism, Accessibility, Behcet’s Disease, Chronic Illness, Healthcare, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Religion, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience, USA

• ‘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

• ‘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

• ‘The Architecture of Disability’- Gissen, David

  A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment. With…

  The Disability Archives

  9th Sep 2023

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

  Academic, Accessibility, Architecture, Disability Studies, Inaccessibility, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, 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