Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today /
Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today /
edited by Alice Wong.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Delacorte Press, [2020]
- xviii, 139 p. ; 23 cm.
"Adapted for young adults." "This work is based on Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, introduction and compilation copyright � 2020 by Alice Wong, published in paperback by Vintage Books, an division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135).
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 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.
School Library Journal starred, November 2021 Booklist starred, October 2021 Kirkus Starred, September 2021
"The seventeen . . . essays in [this book], all written by disabled people, offer . . . insight into the . . . disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy"--Book Depository.
Young Adult Follett School Solutions.
9780593381670
2021019562
People with disabilities--Social conditions.--United States
People with disabilities--United States--Biography.
Essays.
HV1552.3 / .D572 2020
305.9/08/092/273
"Adapted for young adults." "This work is based on Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, introduction and compilation copyright � 2020 by Alice Wong, published in paperback by Vintage Books, an division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135).
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 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.
School Library Journal starred, November 2021 Booklist starred, October 2021 Kirkus Starred, September 2021
"The seventeen . . . essays in [this book], all written by disabled people, offer . . . insight into the . . . disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy"--Book Depository.
Young Adult Follett School Solutions.
9780593381670
2021019562
People with disabilities--Social conditions.--United States
People with disabilities--United States--Biography.
Essays.
HV1552.3 / .D572 2020
305.9/08/092/273