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Author Sjunneson, Elsa, 1985- author.

Title Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism / Elsa Sjunneson.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Tiller Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.
©2021

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  362.4 SJUNNESO    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  362.4 SJUNNESON    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  362.4 SJUNNESON    Check Shelf
Edition First Tiller Press hardcover edition.
Description xi, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents The Building Blocks of Blindness: Hi, I'm Elsa -- We Need to Talk about Helen: Breaking Gibson's Mythology -- Language Acquisition Through the Sound Barrier and Other Deafblind Mysteries -- My Body and Other Histories -- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Identify Ableism: A Lesson in Radiation Poisoning -- Your Vision of Blindness is Impaired: The Monolith of Blindness in Media -- How I Learned to Drive, Play With Swords, And Other Things You Shouldn't Do At Home -- Yes, Virginia, Even Blind Men Can Be Assholes: The Intersection of Disability and Gender -- The Call is Coming from Inside the House: Surviving Ableist Violence Through the Lens of Horror -- Cripping My Dance Card: Required Reading for People Who Want to Date Me (But my Relatives Should Close the Book) -- Coming Out of the Closet: But Only If It's ADA Compliant -- There Are No Blind Moms on TV: Disability & Parenthood Stigma -- I Am Not a Teaching Tool: Medicalizing the Disabled Body -- Welcome to the Cyberpunk Future, It's In My Ears: Disability and Science Fiction -- We Have Always Thrived in the Castle: Defying Ableism to Become Yourself -- Cane in One Hand, Protest Sign in the Other: A View of Police Brutality and Disability -- Hindsight is 20/20, Except if You're Me and then it's [REDACTED].
Summary "A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Sjunneson, Elsa, 1985-
Deafblind people -- United States -- Biography.
Deafblind women -- United States -- Biography.
People with disabilities.
People with disabilities in mass media.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
Deafblind people. (OCoLC)fst01430175
Deafblind women. (OCoLC)fst01430195
Discrimination against people with disabilities. (OCoLC)fst00895020
People with disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01057245
People with disabilities in mass media. (OCoLC)fst01057366
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Sjunneson, Elsa. Being seen New York : Tiller Press, [2021] 9781982152413 (DLC) 2021011847
ISBN 9781982152376 hardcover
1982152370 hardcover
9781982152413 electronic book
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