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  • Disability Intimacy

    Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

    by Alice Wong ...
    The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Being Heumann

    An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

    A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction"*...*an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— BuzzfeedOne of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Going for Broke

    Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country

    Edited by Alissa Quart, David Wallis ...
    A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Unmasking Autism

    Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

    A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity“A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.”—Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP, author of Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing AutismFor ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Sitting Pretty

    The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

    A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Black Madness :

    Mad Blackness

    In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Deaf President Now!

    The 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University

    Deaf President Now! reveals the groundswell leading up to the history-making week in 1988 when the students at Gallaudet University seized the campus and closed it down until their demands were met. To research this probing study, the authors interviewed in-depth more than 50 of the principal players.This telling book reveals the critical role played by a little-known group called the "Ducks," a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Black Disability Politics

    by Sami Schalk ...
    In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • After Universal Design

    The Disability Design Revolution

    Edited by Elizabeth Guffey ...
    How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessible rather than designing products that "fix" disabilities? How can we grow our capabilities to make designs more “bespoke” to each individual? After Universal Design brings together scholars, practitioners, and disabled users and makers to consider ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Crip Up the Kitchen

    Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook

    by Jules Sherred ...
    A comprehensive guide and recipe collection that brings the economy and satisfaction of home cooking to disabled and neurodivergent cooks.Cripping / Crip Up: A term used by disabled disability rights advocates and academia to signal taking back power, to lessen stigma, and to disrupt ableism as to ensure disabled voices are included in all aspects of life.When Jules Sherred discovered the Instant ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Making Disability Modern

    Design Histories

    Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics. The contributors reveal the social role ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

    by Ashley Shew ...
    A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal.” Suddenly well-meaning people called her an “inspiration” while ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • No Right to Be Idle

    The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s

    by Sarah F. Rose ...
    During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor market, reflecting the fact that Americans had long viewed productivity as a spectrum that varied by age, gender, and ability. But as Sarah F. Rose ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Enabling Acts

    The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights

    The first major behind-the-scenes account of the history, passage, and impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)—the landmark moment for disability rightsThe Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Legal Rights, 6th Ed.

    The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

    The standard handbook on law affecting deaf and hard of hearing people has been completely rewritten and updated. The sixth edition of Legal Rights: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People meticulously describes those statutes that prohibit discrimination against deaf and hard of hearing people, and any others with physical challenges. Written in easy-to-understand language, the new edition ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Deaf-Blind Reality

    Living the Life

    Edited by Scott M. Stoffel ...
    Most stories about disabled people are written for the sake of being inspirational. These stories tend to focus on some achievement, such as sports or academics, but rarely do they give a true and complete view of the challenges individuals must deal with on a daily basis. For example: How does a deaf-blind person interact with hearing-sighted people at a family reunion? How does she shop for ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Alterando la discapacidad

    Manifiesto a favor de las personas

    Alterando la discapacidad hace un análisis de la discapacidad que pretende no dejar indiferente al lector. Bajo una mirada crítica, el Colectivo Zotikos, expone ideas sobre la construcción histórica, social, antropológica y corporal de la discapacidad, así como aspectos relevantes en torno a la vivienda y el empleo ligado a la nueva economía. El texto hace referencia tanto al pasado (construyendo ... Read more

    $7.87 USD

  • Deaf Heritage

    A Narrative History of Deaf America

    Series Book 7 - Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies
    Now, Jack R. Gannon’s original groundbreaking volume on Deaf history and culture is available once again. In Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America, Gannon brought together for the first time the story of the Deaf experience in America from a Deaf perspective. Recognizing the need to document the multifaceted history of this unique minority with its distinctive visual culture, he ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Country of the Blind

    A Memoir at the End of Sight

    by Andrew Leland ...
    **Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ATLANTIC • NPR • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LITHUBA witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own**“After reading Andrew Leland’s memoir, The Country of the Blind, you will look at the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Far From the Tree

    Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2012, this masterpiece by the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also find profound meaning in doing so—“a brave, beautiful book that will ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Disability Visibility

    First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Alice Wong ...
    “Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. It's an eye-opening collection that readers will revisit time and time again.” —Chicago TribuneOne in five people in the United States lives ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Beautiful

    A beautiful girl. An evil man. One inspiring true story of courage

    by Katie Piper ...
    'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered ... then I realised it was me.'When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model.But then she met Daniel Lynch on Facebook and her world quickly turned into a nightmare ...After being held captive and brutally raped by her new boyfriend, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Care Work

    Dreaming Disability Justice

    In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Pity

    People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

    “A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post“The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune“Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It ... Read more

    $11.99 USD