Tag: Social Issues

• ‘The Right to Maim’- Puar, Jasbir K.

  In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—to disrupt the…

  The Disability Archives

  18th Nov 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, LGBTQ+, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, P, Philosophy, Transgender

  Academic, ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise, Biopolitics, Disability Politics, Disability Studies, History, Israel, LGBTQ+, Non-Fiction, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Queer Politics, Race Politics, Series, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, Transgender

• ‘The Pedagogy of Pathologization’- Annamma, Subini Ancy

  Linking powerful first-person narratives with structural analysis, The Pedagogy of Pathologization explores the construction of criminal identities in schools via the intersections of race, disability, and gender. amid the prevalence of targeted mass incarceration. Focusing uniquely on the pathologization of female students of color, whose voices are frequently engulfed by labels of deviance and disability,…

  The Disability Archives

  16th Nov 2023

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

  Academic, Disability Politics, Disability Studies, Education, Gender, Gender Politics, Legal Studies, Non-Fiction, POC, Politics, Race, Race Politics, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’- Charlton, James I

  James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on…

  The Disability Archives

  27th Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Author, Book Type, C, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Historical, Journalism, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Physical Disability

  Academic, Activism, Disability Activism, Disability Rights, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience, USA

• ‘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

• ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’- Skloot, Rebecca

  Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her enslaved ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though…

  The Disability Archives

  22nd Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Autobiography, Book Type, Cancer, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Historical, Journalism, Misc, Non-Fiction, S, Terminal Illness

  American History, Biographical, Biopolitics, Black Politics, Body Politics, Cancer, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability History, Disability Studies, Healthcare, Henrietta Lacks, Journalism, Medical Consent, Medical Justice, Non-Fiction, POC, Racialised Medical Care, Read By Archivist, Science, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Terminal Illness, USA

• ‘The Future Is Disabled’- Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi

  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disabled. Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about the last two years of surviving COVID-19 as a disabled femme of color in an ableist world that isn’t interested in protecting disabled folks. They also discuss mutual aid and disabled joy in the face of isolation…

  The Disability Archives

  16th Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Anthology, Author, Book Type, Chronic Illness, Disability, Disability Studies, Essays, Genre, LGBTQ+, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, P, Queer, S

  Academic, Anthology, Art, COVID-19, Disability Justice, Disability Politics, Essay Anthology, Essays, LGBTQ+, Non-Fiction, Politics, Queer, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience

• ‘Feminist, Queer, Crip’- Kafer, Alison

  In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as…

  The Disability Archives

  15th Oct 2023

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

  Academic, Body Politics, Disability Justice, Disability Politics, Disability Studies, Feminsim, LGBTQ+, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book

• ‘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

• ‘Disability Pride’- Mattlin, Ben

  An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging, fast-paced prose.…

  The Disability Archives

  1st Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Book Type, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Historical, Journalism, M, Misc, Misc., Non-Fiction, Sociology

  Activism, American History, Disability Activism, Disability History, Disability Justice, Disability Politics, Disability Pride, History, Journalism, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The ADA, USA

• ‘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