Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
By: Rebekah Taussig
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re…
Want to Read $ 13.99"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dance however we want to."-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dance however we want to."-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
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1. Feminist, Queer, Crip
By: None
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
In Feminist, Queer, CripAlison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies… read more
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2. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
- disability
- audiobook
3. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
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- social justice
- essays
- disability
- audiobook
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
4. Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
By: Emily Ladau
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable step… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
- disability
- audiobook
5. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
By: Judith Heumann
4.48
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of f… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- disability
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
- audiobook
"When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight bac…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
"When someone ignores you, it's an intentional display of power. They're essentially acting like you don't exist, and they do it because they can. They believe that nothing will happen to them. Ignori…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
6. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- disability
- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
7. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
By: Rebekah Taussig
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- disability
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
- audiobook
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
8. Where You See Yourself
By: Claire Forrest
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and mu… read more
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- disability
- audiobook
9. Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
By: Liat Ben-moshe
4.47
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into ac… read more
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- disability
- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
10. My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church
By: Amy Kenny
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection,… read more
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- social justice
- disability
- audiobook
11. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
- disability
- audiobook
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
12. Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
By: Haben Girma
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Audiobook
Born with deaf-blindness, Girma grew up with enough vision to know when someone was in front of her… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- disability
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability studies
- audiobook
"Communities designed with just one kind of person in mind isolate those of us defying our narrow definition of personhood."-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"Sighted or blind, Deaf or hearing, each of us holds just the tiniest fraction of the world's wisdom. Admitting we don't know everything will aid us on this Trek for Knowledge."-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"It's a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I'm disabled. They…"-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"Here at LCB, I'm surrounded by people who understand that blindness is just limited eyesight. With the right tools and training, blind people can compete as equals with sighted peers. Places like LCB…"-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
13. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability
- audiobook
14. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
By: Amanda Leduc
4.09
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more
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- memoir
- disability
- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
- audiobook
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
15. What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
By: Tessa Miller
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What Doesn’t Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist’s awakening to chronic illness,… read more
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- biography memoir
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- disability
- audiobook
16. The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
By: Keah Brown
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtfu… read more
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- memoir
- disability
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- disability studies
- audiobook
"There is power and excitement in reclaiming things that were once used to hurt or demean you."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"I know that I'm not the first person in the world to say "I love music; it saved me." But that doesn't make it less true."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"Power is tricky to navigate; to understand it you have to lay the groundwork for what makes you powerful in the first place."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"Beyoncé said it best in "Haunted": "Perfection is so...mmm," and what she means is that the idea of perfection is so boring, so overdone and outdated."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
17. Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
By: Eddie Ndopu
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly s… read more
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- memoir
- disability
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- nonfiction
- disability studies
- audiobook
18. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- memoir
- disability
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
19. About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times
By: Peter Catapano
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Boldly claiming a space in which people with disabilities can be seen and heard as they are—not as … read more
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- memoir
- disability
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
- audiobook
20. We've Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents
By: Eliza Hull
4.50
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism tre… read more
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- memoir
- disability
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- disability studies
21. The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman
By: Lucy Webster
4.29
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, eye-opening insight into navigating the world as a disabled young woman Women’s lives a… read more
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- memoir
- disability
- feminism
- nonfiction
- disability studies
- audiobook
