Tag: Disability Representation

• ‘Sitting Pretty’- Taussig, Rebekah

  A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something…

  The Disability Archives

  18th Nov 2023

  Adult, Age, Anthology, Author, Autobiography, Book Type, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Aid User, Essays, Genre, Memoir, Mobility Aid User, Non-Fiction, Paralysis, Physical Disability, T, Wheelchair User

  Activism, Adult, Autobiography, Disability Representation, Essay Anthology, Essays, Memoir, Mobility Aids, Non-Fiction, Paralysis, Physical Disability, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience, USA, Wheelchair User

• ‘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

• ‘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

• ‘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

• ‘The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability’- Barker, Clare. Murray, Stuart

  This Companion analyzes the representation of disability in literatures in English, including American and postcolonial writing, across all major time periods and through a variety of critical approaches. Through the alternative ideas of mind and embodiment generated by physiological and psychological impairments, an understanding of disability narrative changes the way we read literature. With contributions…

  The Disability Archives

  12th Sep 2023

  Academic, Age, Anthology, Author, B, Book Type, Disability, Essays, Genre, Literature Studies, M, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction

  Anthology, Cambridge Companion, Disability History, Disability in Education, Disability in Literature, Disability Representation, Essay Anthology, Essays, History, Non-Fiction, Read By Archivist, Series

• ‘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