Disability

See also disability studies.

According to many definitions, a disability or functional impairment is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these. Other definitions describe disability as the societal disadvantage arising from such impairments. Disability substantially affects a person's life activities and may be present from birth or occur during a person's lifetime.
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New Releases Tagged "Disability"

Queen of Faces (Queen of Faces, #1)
It's All in Your Head
PAH! (Deaf Hearts, #3)
Gloria Don't Speak
Ziggy's Voice (The Wilde Men, #2)
Next Level Love
Rebound Control (Chicago Thunder, #5)
Nash (Honorably Discharged, #4)
Mighty The Fallen
You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir
The Sideways Life of Denny Voss
Outlier (Daydreamer, #3)
Next of Kin (Next, #1)
His Juliet (Empire of Royals, #2)
Gold Digger (Daydreamer, #2)
How to Keep House While Drowning
The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)
Comeback (Holland Brothers, #3)
A Dance of Lies (The Edge of Glass, #1)
More or Less Maddy
Like a Power Play
Strong Female Character
It's All in Your Head
Happiness Falls
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanV for Vendetta by Alan             MooreChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
473 books — 375 voters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonWonder by R.J. PalacioOut of My Mind by Sharon M. DraperHating Jesse Harmon by Robin MimnaPuddle Jumping by Amber L.  Johnson
Disability-positive stories
499 books — 324 voters

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieCinder by Marissa MeyerAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Diversity in Young Adult and Middle Grade
1,918 books — 1,218 voters

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
El Deafo
Archer's Voice (Pelion Lake, #1)
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
True Biz
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

Nikki Rowe
Theres a remarkable amount of strength residing in those who move forward without being able to physically move. Ones that carry the weight of illness or a disability, they battle wars most know nothing about. They are the true warriors of the world, the ones who have every reason to quit but never do.
Nikki Rowe

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