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• Mother Tongue

  a Memoir

  Nović, Sara, 1987-

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  In this moving and powerful memoir, novelist Nović (True Biz) shares her journey of gradual hearing loss in childhood and her entry into the deaf community as an adult.

• Disability Pride

  Dispatches From a post-ADA World

  Mattlin, Ben, 1962-

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  An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

• Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw

  Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever

  Ndopu, Eddie,

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  Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu's rousing memoir about being both profoundly disabled and profoundly successful without trading one for the other.

• To Be a Problem

  a Black Woman's Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement

  Baldwin, Dara,

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  A searing call out of the systemic racism happening in disability rights and also ableism occurring in other justice movements, told through the story of a Black woman activist and policymaker.

• Beautiful People

  My Thirteen Truths About Disability

  Blake, Melissa (Blogger),

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  Well-known disability activist and social media influencer Melissa Blake offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.

• Pretty for a Crippled Girl

  a Memoir of Disability & Mobility

  Siri, Teri,

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  An uncensored, honest, at times painfully raw and yet, funny and entertaining memoir by Teri Siri who has cerebral palsy (CP).

• An Independent Man

  Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights

  Danforth, Scot,

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  Ed Roberts insisted on what all people deserve: a full life. By insisting that disabled persons are valuable members of society, and by translating his ideas into action, Roberts laid the ground for the Americans with Disabilities Act and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Anti-ableist Manifesto

  Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-inclusive World

  Yu, Tiffany,

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  Tiffany Yu takes readers on a revelatory examination of disability--how to unpack biases and build an inclusive and accessible world.

• Shattered

  a Memoir

  Kureishi, Hanif,

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  A writer recounts his yearlong recovery in Rome following a fall that left him unable to walk, dictating reflections on his medical journey, parenthood, immigration, and writing, ultimately transforming his pain into a narrative that celebrates…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Living Disability

  Building Accessible Futures for Everybody

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  Universal in scope but intimate and local in focus, grounded in personal struggles and celebrations, Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems.

• The Pretty One

  on Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

  Brown, Keah,

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  Keah Brown offers a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be Black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.

• Easy Beauty

  a Memoir

  Cooper Jones, Chloé, 1983-

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  Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, which affects both the stature, moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. After unexpectedly becoming a mother, something in her shifted, a journey across the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Year of the Tiger

  An Activist's Life

  Wong, Alice, 1974-2025,

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  Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice Wong uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Being Heumann

  An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

  Heumann, Judith E.,

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  One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.

• Places I've Taken My Body

  Essays

  Brown, Molly McCully, 1991-

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  Poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder

• Sitting Pretty

  the View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

  Taussig, Rebekah,

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  From Rebekah Taussig, a disability advocate with a PhD in disability studies and creative nonfiction, and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty, an essay collection based on a lifetime of experiences in a paralyzed body, tackling themes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Being Seen

  One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

  Sjunneson, Elsa, 1985-

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  A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else

• Disability Visibility

  First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century

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  A collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience.

• My Body Is Not a Prayer Request

  Disability Justice in the Church

  Kenny, Amy

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  Amy Kenny reflects on her experiences inside the church, exposing unintentional ableism and casting a new vision for Christian communities to engage disability justice.