Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century / edited by Alice Wong.
"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil...
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New York :
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- PART 1: BEING
- Unspeakable Conversations / Harriet McBryde Johnson
- For Ki'tay D. Davidson, Who Loves Us / Talila A. Lewis
- If You Can't Fast, Give / Maysoon Zayid
- There's a Mathematical Equation That Proves I'm Ugly--Or So I Learned in My Seventh Grade Art Class / Ariel Henley
- Erasure of Indigenous People in Chronic Illness / Jen Deerinwater
- When You are Waiting to Be Healed / June Eric-Udorie
- Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison / Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson
- Common Cyborg / Jillian Weise
- I'm Tired of Chasing a Cure / Liz Moore
- PART 2: BECOMING
- We Can't Go Back / Ricardo T. Thornton, Sr.
- Radical Visibility : a Disabled Queer Clothing Reform Movement Manifesto / Sky Cubacub
- Guide Dogs Don't Lead Blind People. We Wander as One / Haben Girma
- Taking Charge of My Story as a Cancer Patient at the Hospital Where I Work / Diana Cejas
- Canfei to Canji : the Freedom to be Loud / Sandy Ho
- Nurturing black disabled joy / Keah Brown
- Last but Not Least--Embracing Asexuality / Keshia Scott
- Imposter Syndrome and Parenting with a Disability / Jessica Slice
- How to Make a Paper Crane from Rage / Elsa Sjunneson
- Selma Blair Became a disabled Icon Overnight. Here's Why We Need More Stories Like Hers / Zipporah Arielle
- PART 3: DOING
- Why My Novel is Dedicated to My Disabled Friend Maddy / A.H. Reaume
- Antiabortion Bill You Aren't Hearing About / Rebecca Cokley
- So. Not. Broken. / Alice Sheppard
- How a Blind Astronomer Found a Way to Hear the Stars / Wanda Díaz-Merced
- Incontinence is a Public Health Issue--And We Need to Talk About It / Mari Ramsawakh
- Falling/Burning : Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Being a Bipolar Creator / Shoshana Kessock
- Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time / Ellen Samuels
- Lost cause / Reyma McCoy McDeid
- On NYC's Paratransit, Fighting for Safety, Respect, and Human Dignity / Britney Wilson
- Gaining Power through Communication Access / Lateef McLeod
- PART 4: CONNECTING
- Fearless Benjamin Lay : Activist, Abolitionist, Dwarf Person / Eugene Grant
- To Survive Climate Catastrophe, Look to Queer and Disabled Folks / Patty Berne, as told to and edited by Vanessa Raditz
- Disability Solidarity : Completing the "Vision for Black Lives" / Harriet Tubman Collective
- Time's Up for Me, Too / Karolyn Gehrig
- Still Dreaming Wild Disability Justice Dreams at the end of the world / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Love Means Never Having to Say ... Anything / Jamison Hill
- On the Ancestral Plane : Crip Hand-Me-Downs and the Legacy of Our Movements / Stacey Milbern
- Beauty of Spaces Created for and by Disabled People / s.e. smith.