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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.44 — 17,254 ratings — published 2020
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,686 ratings — published 2023
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.34 — 23,875 ratings — published 2022
A Kind of Spark (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,561 ratings — published 2020
Hunchback (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ableism)
avg rating 3.36 — 14,077 ratings — published 2023
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,350 ratings — published 2021
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.41 — 9,865 ratings — published 2020
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.56 — 709 ratings — published 2015
You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! (Scholastic Gold)
by (shelved 4 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,987 ratings — published 2018
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.24 — 787,764 ratings — published 1966
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,468 ratings — published 2024
Out on a Limb (Out, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.25 — 176,384 ratings — published 2023
Some Desperate Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.05 — 18,728 ratings — published 2023
Blank Canvas (Irons and Works, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,489 ratings — published 2019
I Hear the Sunspot, Vol. 1 (I Hear the Sunspot #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,406 ratings — published 2014
The Words in My Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,577 ratings — published 2020
I'm a Queerfeminist Cyborg, That's Okay. Gedankensammlung zu Anti/Ableismus (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.35 — 46 ratings — published 2018
El Deafo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.20 — 90,406 ratings — published 2014
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Antisemitism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Ableism, and Classism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ableism)
avg rating 3.97 — 788 ratings — published 1999
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,514 ratings — published 1999
Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.45 — 435 ratings — published 2019
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.37 — 168,723 ratings — published 2025
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,488 ratings — published 2022
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.31 — 443 ratings — published
Health Communism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.28 — 942 ratings — published 2022
It's All or Nothing, Vale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.07 — 859 ratings — published 2025
Some Like It Cold (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,029 ratings — published 2024
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.20 — 618 ratings — published 2024
The Chance to Fly (The Chance to Fly, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,278 ratings — published 2021
You're So Amazing! (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.37 — 366 ratings — published
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.01 — 53,490 ratings — published 2006
Fighting for YES!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.41 — 383 ratings — published 2022
Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.41 — 874 ratings — published 2021
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.35 — 832 ratings — published 2023
Ableism in Education: Rethinking School Practices and Policies (Equity and Social Justice in Education)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.00 — 54 ratings — published
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,252 ratings — published 2024
Conditions of a Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.00 — 314 ratings — published 2024
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,440 ratings — published 2024
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,557 ratings — published 2023
Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 3.82 — 23,446 ratings — published 2010
Give Me a Sign (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,005 ratings — published 2023
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.28 — 99,269 ratings — published 2017
Tilly in Technicolor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,190 ratings — published 2023
Nestlings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,375 ratings — published 2023
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.34 — 19,350 ratings — published 2020
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,011 ratings — published
Master Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,378 ratings — published 2020
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,742 ratings — published 2023
The Infinite Noise (The Bright Sessions, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,156 ratings — published 2019
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ableism)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,428,886 ratings — published 2023
“When I think of disabled literature and writing, I can think of a breadth of writing that spans decades and generations, that uses the D-word and does not. I think of Audre Lorde—Black Lesbian poet warrior mother, legally blind, living and dying with cancer, whose work shines with the knowledge she gained from living with bodily difference and fighting the medical industrial complex. I think of Gloria Anzaldúa, queer Latinx maestra who started her period at age three and lived with bodily and reprogenital differences, living and dying with diabetes.
Some of my work as a disability justice writer has been to look at the legacies and work of those foundational second-wave queer and trans feminist writers and creators of color—Audre Lorde and June Jordan, Gloria Anzaldúa and Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, Chrystos and Sapphire, to name a few—and to witness the disability all up in their work, even if they did not use that word because of any number of factors including the whiteness of the disability rights movement of the time.
June's last decade of writing was all about her cancer. Gloria's writing had everything to do with her diabetes and neurodivergence and life-long bodily differences. Marsha and Sylvia were both neurodivergent Trans Black and Latinx activists and creators whose writing, performance, and art was at the center of their lives and activism. Chrystos and Sapphire's Indigenous and Black feminist incest survivor stories and poetry write from spaces of surviving extreme trauma, chronic pain from stripping and cleaning houses, CPTSD, grief, and psychiatrization.
"I also think of the deep legacy of disabled writers (some dead, some still living but having done this for a while) who intentionally, politically identified as disabled.
Laura Hershey. Leroy Moore. Qwo-Li Driskill. Aurora Levins Morales. Billie Rain. Dani Montgomery. Nomy Lamm. Cheryl Marie Wade. Emi Koyama. Pat Parker. Tatiana de la tierra. Raymond Luczak. Anne Finger. Leslie Feinberg, who died of Lyme disease. Peggy Munson. Beth Brant. Vickie Sears. Writers who are small press, micro-press, self-published, indie press, out of print. Writers I know and cherish, whose names I call when I talk about disabled writing.
We are so often kept apart, we disabled people, and kept from knowing each other's names. We are told not to hang out with the other kid with cerebral palsy, told to deny or downplay our disabilities or Deafness or ND. We often grow up not learning disabled history, Deaf literature, or that those are even a thing.”
― The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
Some of my work as a disability justice writer has been to look at the legacies and work of those foundational second-wave queer and trans feminist writers and creators of color—Audre Lorde and June Jordan, Gloria Anzaldúa and Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, Chrystos and Sapphire, to name a few—and to witness the disability all up in their work, even if they did not use that word because of any number of factors including the whiteness of the disability rights movement of the time.
June's last decade of writing was all about her cancer. Gloria's writing had everything to do with her diabetes and neurodivergence and life-long bodily differences. Marsha and Sylvia were both neurodivergent Trans Black and Latinx activists and creators whose writing, performance, and art was at the center of their lives and activism. Chrystos and Sapphire's Indigenous and Black feminist incest survivor stories and poetry write from spaces of surviving extreme trauma, chronic pain from stripping and cleaning houses, CPTSD, grief, and psychiatrization.
"I also think of the deep legacy of disabled writers (some dead, some still living but having done this for a while) who intentionally, politically identified as disabled.
Laura Hershey. Leroy Moore. Qwo-Li Driskill. Aurora Levins Morales. Billie Rain. Dani Montgomery. Nomy Lamm. Cheryl Marie Wade. Emi Koyama. Pat Parker. Tatiana de la tierra. Raymond Luczak. Anne Finger. Leslie Feinberg, who died of Lyme disease. Peggy Munson. Beth Brant. Vickie Sears. Writers who are small press, micro-press, self-published, indie press, out of print. Writers I know and cherish, whose names I call when I talk about disabled writing.
We are so often kept apart, we disabled people, and kept from knowing each other's names. We are told not to hang out with the other kid with cerebral palsy, told to deny or downplay our disabilities or Deafness or ND. We often grow up not learning disabled history, Deaf literature, or that those are even a thing.”
― The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
“I couldn't help concluding that disabled people with adequate resources and support are, as a group, particularly equipped to weather the adjustment to parenthood. Physical weakness and change do not scare us as they do others. We have spent years decoupling joy from physical or mental function.”
― Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World
― Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World
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