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• Disability Visibility

  First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century

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  Nonfiction/Essays. Alice Wong edits this collection of first-person accounts from disabled writers navigating the 21st century. Through stories, essays, blogs, and other documents, this book celebrates the diversity of the multi-faceted disabled…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Demystifying Disability

  What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be An Ally

  Ladau, Emily, 1991-

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  Nonfiction. Emily Ladau is a disability rights activist and co-host of "The Accessible Stall Podcast." She wrote this title as a guidebook for conversations surrounding disability, both for disabled people and their allies.

• Year of the Tiger

  An Activist's Life

  Wong, Alice, 1974-

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  Memoir. Alice Wong is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community that creates and amplifies disability media and culture. This book is her account of being a community organizer, and finding community, in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Quietly Hostile

  Essays

  Irby, Samantha,

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  Essays/Autobiographical. The latest bestselling work by comedian and writer Samantha Irby, "Quietly Hostile" shares new snippets from her personal life including new career highs and flare-ups of chronic illness.

• The Pretty One

  on Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

  Brown, Keah,

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  Memoir. Keah Brown is an activist born with cerebral palsy who created the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign. This book is a celebration of self-love and her experiences living as a disabled Black person in the United States. She is also a member of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disability Pride

  Dispatches From a post-ADA World

  Mattlin, Ben, 1962-

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  Nonfiction. Ben Mattlin is a disabled journalist with spinal muscular atrophy. In this book he explores the evolutions and attitudes of disability activism since the passing of the ADA. Additional titles by Mattlin include "In Sickness and In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crip Up the Kitchen

  Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook

  Sherred, Jules,

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  Nonfiction/Cookbook. Jules Sherred is a commercial food photographer and stylist, recipe developer, and journalist who describes the kitchen as the least accessible space in a house, and wrote this book to help disabled homecooks navigate the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Being Heumann

  An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

  Heumann, Judith E.,

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  Memoir. Judith Heumann (December 18, 1947 – March 4, 2023) is known as the "Mother of the Disability Rights Movement." The daughter of German Jewish immigrants, she contracted polio at the age of 18 months and used a wheelchair for most of her life.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sitting Pretty

  the View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

  Taussig, Rebekah,

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  Memoir. Rebekah Taussig is a disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty who is paralyzed and uses a wheelchair. Her inspiration for writing is to show stories that "allowed disability to be complex and ordinary,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Haben

  the Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

  Girma, Haben, 1988-

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  Memoir. Haben Girma, a disability rights advocate, is the first Deafblind student to graduate from Harvard Law School. An unknown condition in childhood led to 100% hearing loss and 99% vision loss. In this memoir, she recounts adventures she has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Being Seen

  One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

  Sjunneson, Elsa, 1985-

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  Memoir/ Elsa Sjunneson is a Deafblind author and activist who uses bilateral hearing aids and has partial vision in one eye. She describes this book as "a snarky but thoughtful look into how media shapes disability in the modern world." She is also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Live a Life Like Yours

  a Memoir

  Grue, Jan, 1981-

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  Memoir. Jan Grue is an academic and author who was diagnosed at age 3 with spinal muscular atrophy and now uses a wheelchair. This book was originally published in his native Norwegian language in 2018 and highlights moments in his life.

• Normal Sucks

  How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines

  Mooney, Jonathan

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  Nonfiction/Memoir. Jonathan Mooney is a public speaker and writer diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. In this memoir, he explores his experiences as a neuro-diverse child navigating a world that labels him "not normal."

• Accessible America

  a History of Disability and Design

  Williamson, Bess

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  Nonfiction/History. Author Bess Williamson traces the history of accessible design (that is, items and amenities designed with disabilities in mind) through the fight for parity by disability activists to highlight everyday benefits of accessible…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Care Work

  Dreaming Disability Justice

  Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-

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  Nonfiction. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, an activist and performance artist who identifies as queer, disabled, and femme, celebrates the disability justice movement and the work of disabled activists to build power and community.

• All Our Families

  Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship

  Fink, Jennifer Natalya,

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  Nonfiction. Jennifer Natalya Fink is a faculty member of the Program in Disability Studies and Professor of English at Georgetown University. This book explores ableism and how disability is stigmatized despite the global rate of disability. Fink…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shape of Sound

  a Memoir

  Murphy, Fiona,

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  Memoir. This memoir by Deaf poet and essayist Fiona Murphy details her journey of self-discovery after keeping her deafness a secret for 25 years. She mixes her personal experiences with observations about the healthcare industry.

• Living Brave

  Lessons From Hurt, Lighting the Way to Hope

  Dingle, Shannon,

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  Memoir. Shannon Dingle's memoir focuses on how she has found courage through even the darkest challenges, such as losing her husband, using her faith as a cornerstone. She describes herself on her website as a "a disabled disability activist and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• True Biz

  a Novel

  Novic, Sara, 1987-

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  Fiction. True Biz is a coming of age story that takes place at the residential River School for the Deaf and follows three boarding students, teens Charlie, Austin, and February, who face personal and political struggles as they navigate school…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cyborg Detective

  Weise, Jillian

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  Poetry. In this collection, poet The Cyborg Jillian Weise challenges the ways that disability is represented by nondisabled writers in the Western Canon, directly addressing certain works while also claiming space for people who use assistive…Read moreRead more of this annotation