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...

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Other Authors: Wong, Alice, 1974- (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Delacorte Press, 2021.
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