Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
By: Eli Clare
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the…
Want to Read $ 13.63"But in today’s world, being seen as intellectually, cognitively, or developmentally disabled is dangerous because intelligence and verbal communication are entrenched markers of personhood."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"But in today’s world, being seen as intellectually, cognitively, or developmentally disabled is dangerous because intelligence and verbal communication are entrenched markers of personhood."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"Simply put, the DSM is a highly constructed projection placed on top of particular body-mind experiences in order to label, organize, and make meanings of them from within a specific worldview."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"Simply put, the DSM is a highly constructed projection placed on top of particular body-mind experiences in order to label, organize, and make meanings of them from within a specific worldview."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
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1. Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
By: Deborah A. Miranda
4.26
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
This book leads readers through a troubled past using the author's family circle as a touch point a… read more
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2. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
3. Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
By: Andrew Solomon
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Far from the Tree is a masterpiece that will rattle our prejudices, question our policies, and insp… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. 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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5. Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages,
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweekas "one of the … read more
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6. Queer Theory: An Introduction
By: Annamarie Jagose
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In Queer Theory: An Introduction, Annamarie Jagose provides a clear and concise explanation of quee… read more
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7. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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8. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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9. 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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"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
10. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more
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"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
11. 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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12. Stim: An Autistic Anthology
By: Lizzie Huxley-Jones
4.14
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Around one in one hundred people in the UK are autistic, yet there remains a fundamental misunderst… read more
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13. 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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- disability
"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
14. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
4.47
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subve… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
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- queer
"Could we communicate more like manatees, who stay in communication in all kinds of emergencies, place their bodies in a way that protects children, touch each other to remember and know?"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
"I respect you as so much bigger than my own understanding. And me too. I don't have to be available to be eligible for breath. I don't have to be measurable in a market of memes. I don't have to be v…"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
15. 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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- essays
- disability studies
- queer
"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
16. Health Communism
By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more
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17. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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- essays
18. Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
By: Nick Walker
4.37
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on h… read more
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- nonfiction
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- disability studies
- disability
- queer
"If you see anyone trying to narrow the definition of neuroqueer and trying to police who gets to use the tern, feel free to tell them that I said to stop acting like a fucking cop. The world needs mo…"-Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
19. 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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- theory
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20. 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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21. 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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- disability
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
- queer
"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
22. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
By: Eli Clare
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the… read more
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- memoir
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- health
- theory
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
- queer
"But in today’s world, being seen as intellectually, cognitively, or developmentally disabled is dangerous because intelligence and verbal communication are entrenched markers of personhood."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"Simply put, the DSM is a highly constructed projection placed on top of particular body-mind experiences in order to label, organize, and make meanings of them from within a specific worldview."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"Simply put, diagnosis wields immense power. It can provide us access to vital medical technology or shame us, reveal a path toward less pain or get us locked up. It opens doors and slams them shut."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"Our body-minds tumble, shift, ease their way through space and time, never static. Gender transition in its many forms is simply another kind of motion. I lived in a body-mind assigned female at birt…"-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
23. Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People: A Disability Justice Primer
By: Sins Invalid
4.67
Format: 70 pages, ebook
This Disability Justice Primer, based in the work of Patty Berne and Sins Invalid, offers concrete … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
- disability
- queer
24. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
25. 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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- nonfiction
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- disability studies
- disability
"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
26. Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid
By: Shayda Kafai
4.28
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
- disability
- queer
27. 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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- disability
- health
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
28. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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29. Black Disability Politics
By: Sami Schalk
4.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue t… read more
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30. 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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31. Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
By: Marta Russell
4.44
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disab… read more
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