Disability visibility: 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
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Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences." --Chicago Tribune, "Best books published in summer 2020" (Vintage/Knopf Doubleday edition).The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts in this collection ask readers to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be “fixed,” but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations. It is essential reading for all.
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From the Book - First edition.
Part 1: Being --
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 --
When you are waiting to be healed / June Eric-Udorie --
The isolation of being deaf in prison / Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson --
Part 2: Becoming --
We can't go back / Ricardo T. Thornton Sr. --
Guide dogs don't lead blind people. We wander as one. / Haben Girma --
Canfei to Canji: the freedom of being loud / Sandy Ho --
Nurturing Black disabled joy / Keah Brown --
Selma Blair became a disabled icon overnight. Here's why we need more stories like hers. / Zipporah Arielle --
Part 3: Doing --
So. Not. Broken. / Alice Sheppard --
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 --
Gaining power through communication access / Lateef McLeod --
Part 4: Connecting --
The fearless Benjamin Lay: activist, abolitionist, dwarf person / Eugene Grant --
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 --
The beauty of spaces created for and by disabled people / s.e. smith
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