Disability Visibility
17 First-person Stories for Today
New York : Delacorte Press, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: pages cm
"A young adult adaptation of Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
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 / SandyHo -- 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 disabledpeople / s.e. smith
Subjects:
People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
People with disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
People with disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: Ages 12 up
ISBN:
059338167X
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T SOCIAL SCI Won | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Teen Nonfiction | In |
"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"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.