About us : essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times / edited and introduced by Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ; foreword by Andrew Solomon.
Based on the New York Times series, About Us captures the voices of a community that has been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking The authors in About Us offer intimate stories of how they navigate a world not built for them.... the stories here reveal the range of responses, and the variety of...
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxiii, 286 pages ; 25 cm |
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Contents:
- I. Justice
- Becoming disabled / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
- The Nazi's first victims were the disabled / Kenny Fries
- Mental illness is not a horror show / Andrew Solomon
- Disability and the right to choose / Jennifer Bartlett
- If you're in a wheelchair, segregation lives / Luticha Doucette
- My Medicaid, my life / Alice Wong
- You are special! Now stop being different / Jonathan Mooney
- Brain injury and the civil right we don't think about / Joseph J. Fins
- II. Belonging
- I don't want to be "inspiring" / John Altmann
- The deaf body in public space / Rachel Kolb
- My "orphan disease" has given me a new family / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
- My life with Tourette Syndrome / Shane Fistell
- The everyday anxiety of the stutterer / Joseph P. Carter
- How to really see a blind person / Brad Snyder
- The importance of facial equality / Ariel Henley
- Finding refuge with the skin I'm in / Anne Kaier
- What it means to heal / Cyndi Jones
- III. Working
- I use a wheelchair. And yes, I'm your doctor / Cheri A. Blauwet
- Standing up for what I need / Carol R. Steinberg
- Where all bodies are exquisite / Riva Lehrer
- I lost my voice, but help others find theirs / Alex Hubbard
- The "Madman" is back in the building / Zack McDermott
- Hildegard's visions, and mine / Jenny Giering
- Finding myself on the page / Ona Gritz
- Should I tell my students I have depression? / Abby L. Wilkerson
- We are the original lifehackers / Liz Jackson
- IV. Navigating
- My supercharged,tricked out, bluetooth wheelchair life force / Katie Savin
- New York has a great subway, if you're not in a wheelchair / Sasha Blair-Goldensohn
- A symbol for "nobody" that's really for everybody / Elizabeth Guffey
- Feeling my way into blindness / Edward Hoagland
- The athlete in me won't stop / Todd Balf
- The dawn of the "Tryborg" / Jillian Weise
- Flying while blind / Georgina Kleege
- V. Coping
- My life with paralysis, it's a workout / Valerie Piro
- My $1,000 anxiety attack / Joanna Novak
- When life gave me lemons, I had a panic attack / Gila Lyons
- Am I too embarrassed to save my life? / Jane Eaton Hamilton
- My paralympic blues / Emily Rapp Black
- The hawk can soar / Randi Davenport
- VI. Love
- A girlfriend of my own / Daniel Simpson
- Love, eventually / Ona Gritz
- How to play the online dating game, in a wheelchair / Emily Ladau
- Explaining our bodies, finding ourselves / Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison
- Longing for the male gaze / Jennifer Bartlett
- Intimacy without touch / Elizabeth Jameson and Catherine Monahon
- The three-legged dog who carried me / Laurie Clements Lambeth
- VII. Family
- Passing my disability on to my children / Sheila Black
- I have diabetes. Am I to blame? / Rivers Solomon
- 10 things my chronic illness taught my children / Paula M. Fitzgibbons
- The importance of finding family / Alaina Leary
- Trying to embrace a "cure" / Sheila Black
- In my mother's eyes, and mine / Catherine Kudlick
- A portrait of intimate violence / Anne Finger
- VIII. Joy
- Mishearings / Oliver Sacks
- Space travel : a vision / Daniel Simpson
- Learning to sing again / Anne Kaier
- Sensations of sound : on deafness and music / Rachel Kolb
- I dance because I can / Alice Sheppard
- Stories about disability don't have to be sad / Melissa Shang
- In my chronic illness, I found a deeper meaning / Elliot Kukla
- A disabled life is a life worth living / Ben Mattlin.choose / Jennifer Bartlett
- If you're in a wheelchair, segregation lives / Luticha Doucette
- My Medicaid, my life / Alice Wong
- You are special! Now stop being different / Jonathan Mooney
- Brain injury and the civil right we don't think about / Joseph J. Fins
- II. Belonging
- I don't want to be "inspiring" / John Altmann
- The deaf body in public space / Rachel Kolb
- My "orphan disease" has given me a new family / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
- My life with Tourette Syndrome / Shane Fistell
- The everyday anxiety of the stutterer / Joseph P. Carter
- How to really see a blind person / Brad Snyder
- The importance of facial equality / Ariel Henley
- Finding refuge with the skin I'm in / Anne Kaier
- What it means to heal / Cyndi Jones
- III. Working
- I use a wheelchair. And yes, I'm your doctor / Cheri A. Blauwet
- Standing up for what I need / Carol R. Steinberg
- Where all bodies are exquisite / Riva Lehrer
- I lost my voice, but help others find theirs / Alex Hubbard
- The "Madman" is back in the building / Zack McDermott
- Hildegard's visions, and mine / Jenny Giering
- Finding myself on the page / Ona Gritz
- Should I tell my students I have depression? / Abby L. Wilkerson
- We are the original lifehackers / Liz Jackson
- IV. Navigating
- My supercharged,tricked out, bluetooth wheelchair life force / Katie Savin
- New York has a great subway, if you're not in a wheelchair / Sasha Blair-Goldensohn
- A symbol for "nobody" that's really for everybody / Elizabeth Guffey
- Feeling my way into blindness / Edward Hoagland
- The athlete in me won't stop / Todd Balf
- The dawn of the "Tryborg" / Jillian Weise
- Flying while blind / Georgina Kleege
- V. Coping
- My life with paralysis, it's a workout / Valerie Piro
- My $1,000 anxiety attack / Joanna Novak
- When life gave me lemons, I had a panic attack / Gila Lyons
- Am I too embarrassed to save my life? / Jane Eaton Hamilton
- My paralympic blues / Emily Rapp Black
- The hawk can soar / Randi Davenport
- VI. Love
- A girlfriend of my own / Daniel Simpson
- Love, eventually / Ona Gritz
- How to play the online dating game, in a wheelchair / Emily Ladau
- Explaining our bodies, finding ourselves / Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison
- Longing for the male gaze / Jennifer Bartlett
- Intimacy without touch / Elizabeth Jameson and Catherine Monahon
- The three-legged dog who carried me / Laurie Clements Lambeth
- VII. Family
- Passing my disability on to my children / Sheila Black
- I have diabetes. Am I to blame? / Rivers Solomon
- 10 things my chronic illness taught my children / Paula M. Fitzgibbons
- The importance of finding family / Alaina Leary
- Trying to embrace a "cure" / Sheila Black
- In my mother's eyes, and mine / Catherine Kudlick
- A portrait of intimate violence / Anne Finger
- VIII. Joy
- Mishearings / Oliver Sacks
- Space travel : a vision / Daniel Simpson
- Learning to sing again / Anne Kaier
- Sensations of sound : on deafness and music / Rachel Kolb
- I dance because I can / Alice Sheppard
- Stories about disability don't have to be sad / Melissa Shang
- In my chronic illness, I found a deeper meaning / Elliot Kukla
- A disabled life is a life worth living / Ben Matlin.