Disability Visibility
First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 3rd is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. According to the World Health Organization, "The day is about promoting the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities at every level of society and development, and to raise awareness of the situation of persons with disabilities in all aspects of political, social, economic, and cultural life." The titles on this list reveal the experiences, share the wisdom, and celebrate the activism of people living with disabilities. Titles on the structural injustice and disempowerment of people living with disabilities are also included to raise awareness and promote allyship.
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Disability Visibility
17 First-person Stories for Today : Adapted for Young Adults
Being Heumann
An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Beautiful People
My Thirteen Truths About Disability
Being Seen
One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
The Country of the Blind
a Memoir at the End of Sight
Dateable
Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled
Hidden Flowers
a Memoir
I Live a Life Like Yours
a Memoir
Interabled
True Stories About Love and Disability From Squirmy & Grubs and Other Interabled Couples
Normal Sucks
How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines
QDA
a Queer Disability Anthology
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw
Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
Sitting Pretty
the View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Soundtrack of Silence
Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life
Unfit Parent
a Disabled Mother Challenges An Inaccessible World
Unseen
How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice : a Memoir
The View From Down Here
Life as a Young Disabled Woman
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