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Disability visibility, 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults, edited by Alice Wong

Label
Disability visibility, 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults, edited by Alice Wong
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (page 135)
resource.biographical
collective biography
Index
no index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
12-19, Brodart
resource.interestGradeLevel
7-12, Brodart
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Disability visibility
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1236091454
Responsibility statement
edited by Alice Wong
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, UG, 7.6, 4, 516089.
Sub title
17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
Summary
"A young adult adaptation of Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of 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. Here's why we need more stories like hers. / Zipporah Arielle -- So. Not. Broken. / Alice Sheppard -- Incontinence Is a public health issue--and we need to talk about it / Mari Ramsawakh -- Falling/burning: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and 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
Target audience
adolescent
Content
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