10 must-read memoir books like Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong

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Similar categories in Kim E. Nielsen's A Disability History of the United States book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• disability

Similar categories in None's Feminist, Queer, Crip book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Similar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Similar categories in Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• disability
• audiobook

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• memoir
• feminism
• politics
• anthologies
• short stories
• nonfiction
• 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

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• feminism
• nonfiction
• memoir
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Emily Ladau's Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• nonfiction
• social justice
• disability
• audiobook

Similar categories in Judith Heumann's Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• memoir
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• disability
• 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

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• feminism
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• disability

"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

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• nonfiction
• disability
• audiobook

"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Similar categories in Rebekah Taussig's Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• disability
• 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

Similar categories in Liat Ben-moshe's Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• disability

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• 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

Similar categories in Haben Girma's Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• nonfiction
• memoir
• disability
• 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

Similar categories in Amanda Leduc's Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• disability
• 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

Similar categories in Eli Clare's Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• memoir
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• disability

"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

Similar categories in Sins Invalid's Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People: A Disability Justice Primer book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• disability

Similar categories in Keah Brown's The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• memoir
• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays
• disability
• 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

Similar categories in Eddie Ndopu's Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• nonfiction
• memoir
• disability
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ben Mattlin's Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• disability
• audiobook

Similar categories in Peter Catapano's About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times book and Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

• memoir
• anthologies
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• disability
• audiobook