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I love the overall theme of this YA anthology - that resistance is an everyday act and sometimes just surviving is resistance. And some of the stories were excellent (“As You Were” by Bethany C. Morrow and “Ruth” by Laura Silverman), but the short pieces didn‘t work in the audio format. And while the description mentioned #DisabledAndCute, the disability rep in here basically amounted to a mention of that hashtag in a poem, which was disappointing

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.