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Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go.
If you ever lost a sock, you’ll find it here. If …
A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together …
A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability …
The phrase “differently abled” suggests that we are the locus of our disability when we are, in fact, disabled by social and institutional barriers.
Harriet Tubman Collective
— Disability Visibility by Alice Wong (Page 238)
A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together …
Racial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide in an eye-opening and refreshingly frank memoir by fashion and beauty …
Racial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide in an eye-opening and refreshingly frank …
"It is only Black people from whom we demand absolute and unveiled perfection."
— Token Black Girl by Danielle Prescod (Page 202)
Chew on this with me, fellow white people.
"To my interpreter friends, I’m sorry for taking liberties with your job."
I feel like this quote from the acknowledgements is insufficient to describe the astonishingly bad depiction of interpreters in this book. It's a barely passable murder mystery, but the deafness is layered on like buttercream and the interpreter role is 180 degrees from actual interpreters. I finished this book out of pure stubbornness.
I'm about five pages in and this has already become a hate-read. How much will I finish? Who knows!
Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same …
Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical …
ARC copy, e-book.
An exuberant work of popular history: the story of how streets got their names and houses their numbers, and why …
An exuberant work of popular history: the story of how streets got their names and houses their numbers, and why …