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Disabled Authors Deserve, and Demand, More by Alice Wong: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/9...

A Disability Activist is Asked to Change Her Speech by Boston University Her Response by Kristen Shahverdian and Samantha Lafrance: https://pen.org/a-disability-activist-is-asked-to-change-her-speech/

If you want to read about disability rights, this book compiles an eclectic range of essays from many different voices.

Very important reading.

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"Are we "worse off"? I don't think so. Not in any meaningful sense. There are too many variables. For those of us with congenital conditions, disability shapes all we are. Those disabled later in life adapt. We take constraints that no one would choose and build rich and satisfying lives within them. We enjoy pleasures other people enjoy and pleasures peculiarly our own. We have something the world needs." - Harriet McBryde Johnson

Such a great book!
It‘s a collection of essays by people who have a wide range of disabilities and come from a wide range of backgrounds and races. The topics very from public transportation, healthcare, family, and everyday life with a disability.

Thank you so very much for the lovely #JolabokaflodSwap gift, @AmandaBlaze ! I‘ve wanted to read this book for so long and figured I‘d need my own copy for highlighting - can‘t wait to start it! And 😋 to the chocolate in some of my favorite flavors. Thanks again.
Merry Christmas, all! ❤️🎄💚

An excellent compilation of 37 essays and reflections on disability, from a wide variety of experiences and looking at different issues: intersections with other oppressions, accessibility, mutual solidarity, incarceration, and being othered in many ways. There‘s a powerful emphasis that I appreciated as a disabled person on telling our stories and speaking our truths for one another.#Nonfiction2022 #Marvelous
#SheSaid

When I created #DisabledAndCute in 2017, I did so to capture a moment, a moment of trust in myself to keep choosing joy every single day. I wanted to celebrate how in this Black and disabled body I too deserved joy. The hashtag went viral and then global by the end of week two. When disabled people took to it to share their joys and stories I was floored…I might not feel joy every day, on some days I have to just exist, and that‘s OK too.

This is a vital collection of essays and accounts which make up a cross section of many facets of the disability justice movement in the 21st century. It shows the diversity of the community and includes stories told be everyday people and those on the front lines in the disability justice movement. I respected that it included content warnings at the starts of essays which covered particularly sensitive topics.

And I think I got a pretty good purple match here 😉

#Pantone2022
@Clwojick

I really really liked this collection, and I‘m so glad to whoever recommended this one to be read. I am disabled, and I learned so much more from this collection and from the immense amount of diversity of voices in this community then I‘ve heard before and found myself wishing I had connected with more voices in this community throughout my life and early years growing up and feeling alone.

#SheSaid

3rd book read for the #20in4 readathon
@Andrew65

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This book made me feel connected to a community that I've never really felt a part of before. I learned about my own internalized ableism, which I didn't even know was a thing, and my eyes have been opened more to the needs of others. This was really helpful in just liberation and claiming space. I will do better because of this book.

Hello #SheSaid! I don‘t know where the month went (yet again, this year is flying)… but I‘m glad to be spending it reading with you.

Such powerful essays this week and in this whole collection…. I think the disability adaptability relation to climate change and how nature adapts was a really interesting one.

How about you? What were highlights for you?

Hello #SheSaid

I‘m really enjoying these essays, I hope everyone else is too. The one with the author, explaining how she adapted to still do what she wanted..I really got a lot from that one in particular.

Hello #SheSaid

Sorry for the delayed start today!

Roughly halfway through this one already, how‘s everyone doing with it. I like the diversity we are getting with the different stories, but it also breaks it up more than a cohesive memoir.

Sandy Ho: It wasn‘t until the early 1980s, for example, that the Chinese characters used to refer to people with disabilities changed from “canfei,” “useless,” to “canji,” “sickness”…Media professionals in China are now encouraged by the Chinese disability advocacy organization One Plus One to use the characters “cán zhàng” (“disabled and obstructed”) when reporting on disability issues.

Hello #SheSaid!

New month, new book!

Definitely some powerful mini-stories and essays in here.

What touched you the most?
For me it was Chasing a Cure, and Deaf while incarcerated

reposted for @Riveted_Reader_Melissa:

Hello #SheSaid! Next schedule is up for October! Put in your library holds and interlibrary loans!

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#BuddyRead

Hello #SheSaid! Next schedule is up for October! Put in your library holds and interlibrary loans!

Important issues in this book. A must read, I think.

Difficult to read at times and at other moments incredibly uplifting. I think this book is one that everyone should read. Sharing a page that I strongly relate to. #readharder2022

Perfect way to spend a Sunday morning. #readharder2022

Really looking forward to this book. I‘m sure parts of it will be difficult to read (and appreciate the trigger warnings at the start of each piece). #readharder2022

Today I have 4 recommendations from my favorite books that fulfill quite a few challenges in April‘s #DisabilityReadathon!

•The group read is Disability Visibility, which contains some of the best disability writing I‘ve ever read.

•A poetry collection, from a deaf author: The Perseverance by Ray Antrobus. Explores biracial identity, a difficult father relationship, & deaf experiences. The most memorable contemporary poetry I‘ve read in a while.

I really appreciate this book for the voice it gives to people living with disabilities and the opportunity for others to hear those voices. I really like the mix here—each author‘s focus is a little different, which keeps this interesting and gives it good emotional balance. This is really worth your time.

This anthology was so interesting and informative! I've never read an entire collection by disabled writers before. I look forward to reading more from all of the authors in this book!

I've been very slowly reading this collection and am not quite ready to write a full review; but I am definitely ready to shout from the rooftops how important this book is! This blurb from the publisher nails it: "This anthology gives a glimpse of the vast richness and complexity of the disabled experience... It invites readers to question their own assumptions and understandings."
#ConflictedWorlds #Disability
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“Many nondisabled people attribute a degree of brokenness to disability; it rises from the medicalization of our body minds. To be disabled is, in this world, to experience a problem of body and/or mind so severe that it distinguishes a disabled person from a nondisabled person”.

I read for several hours today and finished this anthology. In some of the essays, I cried as I read them. In others, I felt seen and understood. This is an incredible anthology for all people who claim to be advocates of anything because you can't forget about the disabled community in your advocacy.

#JoysOfJune #Readathon

This is my first readathon, and I'm so glad I found out in time to participate from the beginning! My goals:

1. Finish tagged book.
2. Mail my dad's father's day gift (it's a book).
3. Read a book with lgbtq representation.

#JoysOfJune @Andrew65

#curiouscovers #abstractart

This is an important and well-done collection of essays. It's a little uneven because most of the essays are reprinted from other sources, but the best essays really shine. My favorites were “Unspeakable Conversations“ by Harriet McBryde Johnson, “So. Not. Broken“ by Alice Sheppard, and “Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time“ by Ellen Samuels.

A great way to learn more about disability justice. Recommended.

This is a #reread for me ahead of the Feminist Book Club discussion with Alice Wong. I highly recommend this essay collection to get a broad perspective on many disabilities.

I‘m disabled, and part of my disability is not being able to supinate my hands well. I can‘t do that fancy two-handed thumb typing on my phone, so my phone is on my Flippy now while I hunt and peck this paragraph. I can‘t hold books open, so this has been a godsend for ⬇️

This was a great introduction to disability culture and the disability rights movement. Honestly, I have been pretty ignorant about the many issues affecting disabled people's access to things I take for granted in my everyday life.
The collection of essays and stories in this book introduced me to inspiring and exceptional humans. I really recommend this for anyone trying to educate themselves on this underrepresented issue.

A carefully curated list of essays by people who live with a wide range of disabilities, both visible and invisible. The authors are a diverse bunch, representing a variety of ethnicities, gender identities, and social economic backgrounds. The essays expound upon just about everything - parenting, work environments, sexuality, civil rights, mental health, creating art, and more - all through the lens of disability. Definitely recommend.

#NewBooks

I may get a little frustrated with my local bookstore not emailing to let me know that my books are back ordered and wouldn‘t be delivered until a month later, but I‘m still going to give them my money. 😂

Apparently I am on a reading roll today! This book challenged the way I approach understanding disability. I‘m an able-bodied person with a severely disabled sister. While this collection does not speak for her, it gives me a way into some thoughts she might have. And empowers me to fight for her harder.

This is such an important book for everyone to read. I‘ve just been reading a little bit at a time as I want to understand fully the experiences of all the writers

What a great read. This collection would be a great starting point for anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of the lived experiences of people with disabilities. At every turn the writers are pushing back on overused tropes of inspiration porn and the ableist assumption of praying for a cure. I am glad I read this and look forward to finding more in this field.

This collection of essays, stories, and poems from writers of all classes, races, genders, is so important. It illuminates the achievements in recent years of more visibility and justice, and highlights how much work is left until the “future is accessible”. Fun stories of clothing and guide dogs to serious accounts of neglect and abuse turned this read into an emotional roller coaster. I recommend to any one looking to expand their inclusivity

#shelf #bookshelf

Such a amazing variety of voices. Thanks so much for this book. I hope in Singapore, where I'm from, someone collects such stories. Sg is still very provincial when it comes to disability justice.

February will be my first month participating in #bookspin! I‘m excited about my list!

The #fivefingerbookchallenge seemed like a fun way to chat up books I haven‘t yet mentioned on Litsy.

👍🏻 Book I loved: The Three Cornered World, AKA Kusamakura. Natsume Soseki has been my favorite author for years, and this is tied with The Gate as my favorite of his books. I hope to reread both this year.
☝🏻 Book I recommend: Disability Visibility. I want the whole world to read this collection!
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First book of the year and it was a doozy! I am trying to be more involved in activism this year and this book opened my eyes to a completely new area. Definitely recommend this book.

We have come a long way since I was born Deaf 55 years ago; but still have a long way to go , as this series of essays will assert. Far from being “inspiration porn”, these are raw testimonies (but not “poor-me” either) by people across the disability spectrum & some also are POC and/or LBGT groups. Several essays start w/ content notes for TWs.

And yes those are bits and pieces of my aids over the years (newest at top). Several are broken 👇

One of the most important books I read this year. Since disability does not discriminate, this anthology is inherently diverse in both the content and its writers. As I read through these essays, I became aware of my own “unconscious privilege” as well as the pervasive ableism and inclination for inspiration porn we as an able-bodied society carry. I highly recommend. Perfect for #NonfictionNovember.

I learned a lot of new things while also getting a first-person perspectives on things I had read about previously. So many important stories, and so many of them are simply asking for people to listen. Highly recommended.

In talking about mainstream dismissal of marginalized communities during big natural disasters, Berne's essay explains why a capitalist society values certain lives over others.

Yesterday was #IndigenousPeoplesDay. We should be aware of injustices towards them much more often than just a couple days a year (the other being Thanksgiving).

Here Deerinwater explains why other terminology (i.e. Native American) is not good. Although this essay collection focuses on disability, she uses her essay to show the tragic lack of acceptable medical care towards Indigenous people here in the US.