Disability visibility 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden-- but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers. In...
| Other Authors: | Wong, Alice, 1974- (Editor) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Delacorte Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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