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Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives | Tom Shakespeare

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#RiseeUpReads July 2025 Theme: Disability Non-fiction

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Out On a Limb | Hannah Bonam-Young

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Welp I accidentally read the whole thing in one sitting and really enjoyed it. I liked that they communicated with each other for the most part and they built each other up. Win and Bo definitely became better people because they met each other.

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Out On a Limb | Hannah Bonam-Young

Starting the tagged today while Rolo works out his post vet check up aggression.

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Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives | Tom Shakespeare

#RiseUpReads July 2025 Theme: Disability Non-fiction

Please vote for what book we will read in July!

https://forms.gle/SrrhkbZzWxRkQgSP6

Rise up Reads- reading marginalized voices 🔥✊🏼 If you're not currently tagged & would like to be, let me know.

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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short) | Ashley Shew

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This was a really insightful discussion about disability and how most of society expects the disabled to use technology to become "normal" instead of changing our expectations and the world to better serve them.
Each topic was approached in a lighthearted manner, while also calling out the ableist biases typically involved. It definitely brought some things to my attention.
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ncsufoxes This one has been on my list. Our society does expect disabled people to conform to what they find acceptable or within the norm. My son uses text to talk & talk to text software. When he was young we had so much push back on having it on his IEP. I got told he had to physically be able to write words. I always said if business people & doctors can use the same software why can‘t a kid that has speech & auditory processing delays use it. 1w

peanutnine @ncsufoxes wow 😡 the hypocrisy is ridiculous 1w

ncsufoxes @peanutnine unfortunately people blame people for their disabilities (not that it is something that people can usually prevent) & feel that it is up to them to meet societal norms. Most people don‘t realize how ableist society is until they have to navigate it. Accommodations & inclusion benefit everyone but we put those things out of reach for most disabled people. I was thinking about the new glasses Meta made, which they gave out to 1w

ncsufoxes influencers or celebrities & maybe a handful of disabled people (a guy I follow on IG has RP & he was given a pair). Instead of giving it exclusively to disabled people to test & get the word out they give it to people that don‘t necessarily need it. Instead they‘ll charge disabled people full price for something that would benefit them. Tech stuff for disabilities is super expensive, most people can‘t afford it. Unless your state has programs. 1w

peanutnine @ncsufoxes oh yeah. My cousin was paralyzed at 16 and it's crazy the amount of hoops my aunt has to go through just to keep her day to day care and fighting with insurance to prove that she needs something 1w

julieclair This sounds like a book everyone should read. 1w

peanutnine @julieclair for sure! 1w

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Out On a Limb | Hannah Bonam-Young

Loved this story🫶🏻🩷🤗

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Out On a Limb | Hannah Bonam-Young

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Sweet, funny, and easy, and with a long epilogue 🙌🏽Pretty perfect 💕

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Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus | Dusti Bowling

“I knew he was a real friend because he had big ole pit sweat for me. That was some serious loyalty. I should have trusted his judgment about everything else.”

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The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight | Andrew Leland

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“Blindness is a radically distinct way of being in the world. Humans are so fundamentally visual in their understanding & experience that blindness requires its own domain.” I did not know that over 70% of people that are blind live in poverty. Mainly because the education model for the blind is not built on ensuring that blind people being successful. Our systems are not built for disabilities either (& currently they are all being defunded or

ncsufoxes minimized in the US). SSI for disabled people too is a horrific standard ($9,528/year, way below the poverty level & has not been adjusted since 1972). There are exacerbated differences of how people navigate the disabled world based on your family‘s income. ****Disability is a political issue.**** Always has been & always will be. Reminder too disabled people are one of the most disenfranchised groups when it comes to voting & too many (edited) 1mo

ncsufoxes decisions are made about their care, medical, education, housing, independence, livelihoods, supports without most not having equal access to vote. 1mo

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