| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxiii, 286 pages ; 25 cm |
| 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. 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. |
| Summary |
Since its 2016 debut, the New York Times "Disability" column has transformed the national dialogue around disability. This collection of essays from the column captures the voices of a community that has been stereotyped and misrepresented. The authors offer intimate stories of how they navigate a world not built for them, and in doing so reveal the range of responses, and the variety of consequences, to being labeled as "disabled" by the broader public. -- adapted from jacket |
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People with disabilities.
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Sociology of disability.
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Disability studies.
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People with disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01057245
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Sociology of disability. (OCoLC)fst01123936
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| Genre/Form |
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Catapano, Peter, editor.
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Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, author, editor.
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| Added Title |
New York times.
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| ISBN |
9781631495854 (hardcover) |
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1631495852 (hardcover) |
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