Book
Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Delacorte Press, [2020]
Physical Description
xviii, 139 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Ages 12 up Delacorte Press.
Uniform Title
Summary
"A young adult adaptation of Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century"--
According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden-- but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers. Inside you will find activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives include the vast richness and complexity of the disabled experience. They invite readers to question their own assumptions and understandings, while documenting disability culture in the now.-- adapted from original edition
Notes
"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.
Contents
- Being
- If you can't fast, give / There's a mathematical equation that proves I'm ugly - or so I learned in my seventh-grade art class / When you are waiting to be healed / The isolation of being deaf in prison / Becoming
- We can't go back / Guide dogs don't lead blind people. We wander as one. / Canfei to Canji: the freedom of being loud / Nurturing Black disabled joy / Selma Blair became a disabled icon overnight / Doing
- So. Not. Broken. / Incontinence is a public health issue - and we need to talk about it / Falling/burning: being a bipolar creator / Gaining power through communication access / Connecting
- The fearless Benjamin Lay: activist, abolitionist, dwarf person / Love means never having to say...anything / On the ancestral plane: crip hand-me-downs and the legacy of our movements / The beauty of spaces created for and by disabled people