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…
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1. 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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- disability
- nonfiction
- disability studies
- audiobook
2. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- 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
3. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
By: Melania Luisa Marte
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
4. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- memoir
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
5. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
6. 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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- disability
- nonfiction
- disability studies
- audiobook
7. Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
By: Geena Rocero
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and In… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Geena, you speak about transgender rights and FIlipino food with equal expertise."-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"That's the thing about trans joy: It can never be fully extinguished. People can try to narrow the possibilities for our lives, even end them, but our spirits will always expand to fill whatever spac…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"I didn't need to come out ot her. I never said those declarative words - and I didn't even know them at the time. Vocabulary like trans would come much later in my life. All I needed was to hear the …"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"Despite the ubiquity of government-organized trans pageants in the Philippines, trans people themselves are not politically recognized. We are culturally visible but legally erased. To this day, tran…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
8. 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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- lgbt
- nonfiction
- disability studies
- disability
- 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
9. 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
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 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
10. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
By: Greg Marshall
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- queer
11. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
13. 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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- audiobook
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- disability studies
- disability
- 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
14. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
15. The Secret Summer Promise
By: Keah Brown
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
THE BSE (Best Summer Ever) LIST! 1. Blueberries 2. Art show in ShoeHorn 3. … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- disability
- queer
16. 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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- biography
- memoir
- disability
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability studies
- queer
17. 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
- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability studies
18. Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir
By: Walela Nehanda
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racis… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- disability
- queer
19. Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
By: Annie Liontas
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom , Esme Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophr… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- disability
- queer
20. Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
By: Hyeseung Song
4.13
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a sea… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. A Bánh Mì for Two
By: Trinity Nguyen
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
