Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults / edited by Alice Wong.
"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...
| Uniform Title: | Disability visibility. Selections. |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Delacorte Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 139 pages ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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 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 / 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: 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.