Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
2021
Book
"A young adult adaptation of Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century"-- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780593381700
- 9780593381687
- 9780593381670
- 0593381688
- 059338167X
Uniform Title: Disability visibility (Young adult adaptation)
Edition: First edition.
Description: 139 pages ; 22 cm
Target Audience Note: Ages 12 up.
Notes:
- "This work is based on Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, introduction and compilation copyright © 2020 by Alice Wong, published in paperback by Vintage Books, an division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
- If you can't fast, give / Maysoon Zayid
- There's a mathematical equation that proves I'm ugly--or so I learned in 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
LCCN: 2021019562
Control Number: 3096043
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 2021.