Tag: Essays
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‘How to Live Free in a Dangerous World’- Lawson, Shayla
“Phenomenal…. A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose…. This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with…
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‘DisCrit Expanded’- Annamma, Subini Ancy. Ferri, Beth A. Connor, David J.
This sequel to the influential 2016 work DisCrit—Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education explores how DisCrit has both deepened and expanded, providing increasingly nuanced understandings about how racism and ableism circulate across geographic borders, academic disciplines, multiplicative identities, intersecting oppressions, and individual and cultural resistances. Following an incisive foreword by DisCrit intellectual forerunner…
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‘Year of the Tiger’- Wong, Alice
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed anthology Disability Visibility, a genre-bending memoir in essays offers a glimpse into an activist’s journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability rights. In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its beauty and…
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‘We’ve Got This’- Hull, Eliza
How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf parents know when their baby cries in the night? When writer and musician Eliza Hull was pregnant with her first child, like most parents-to-be…
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‘Uncanny Bodies’- Smith, Scott, T., Alaniz, José
Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a…
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‘Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction’- Sjunneson-Henry, Elsa et. al.
COVER “And With the Lamps We Are Multitudes of Light” by Likhain EDITORIAL “The Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Manifesto” by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien FICTION “The House on the Moon” by William Alexander “Birthday Girl” by Rachel Swirsky “An Open Letter to the Family” by Jennifer Brozek “Heavy Lifting” by A. T. Greenblatt…
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‘The Things We Don’t Say’- Morgenlender, Julie
Chronically ill people don’t always talk about it. Until now. Spanning different ages, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and diagnoses, forty-two authors from around the world open up in fifty true stories about their chronic illnesses and their search for answers, poor treatment by doctors, strained relationships with loved ones, self-doubt, and more. They share the…
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‘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…
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‘QDA: A Queer Disabled Anthology’- Luczak, Raymond
Featuring fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics by 48 writers from around the world, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology proves that intersectionality isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a penetrating and unforgettable look into the hearts and souls of those defiant enough to explore their own vulnerabilities and demonstrate their own strengths. “Queer sexuality and disability places…
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‘Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature’- Joshua, Essaka
The modern concept of disability did not exist in the Romantic period. This study addresses the anachronistic use of ‘disability’ in scholarship of the Romantic era, providing a disability studies theorized account that explores the relationship between ideas of function and aesthetics. Unpacking the politics of ability, the book reveals the centrality of capacity and…
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