Disability Studies
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From  So Much Time Spent in BedA Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa on Chronic Illness, Coatlicue, and Creativity From: Care Work |
A letter to Gloria — a Chicana scholar of cultural, feminist, and queer theory — from the author about being a queer femme of colour writer and chronically ill femme. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 9: I Wanna Be with You Everywhere (And I Am): Disability Justice Art as Freedom PortalPART II: THE STORIES THAT KEEP US ALIVE: DISABILITY JUSTICE ARTS IN THE INTERREGNUM From: The Future is Disabled |
This chapter discusses crip creativity, disabled performance art, accessibility, and crip creativity and spaces. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From Prince, Chronic Pain, and Living to Get OldFrom: Care Work |
The author asks and discusses the following question: “how…can [we] remake performance culture’s expectations and figure out our own disabled and chronically ill performance ideas … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Soaring |
Afiena Kamminga recounts the story of Cathy. The chapter discusses her difficulty learning, her dyslexia, her time learning with CALP, and more. | Afiena Kamminga | 3 | 2009 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 10: Disability Justice Writing, the Beauty and the DifficultyPART II: THE STORIES THAT KEEP US ALIVE: DISABILITY JUSTICE ARTS IN THE INTERREGNUM From: The Future is Disabled |
This chapter is on disability justice writing. Topics include creating crip spaces, disabled art/literature and artists/writers, writing about death and grief, creative spaces, education and … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From The Hardest Thing I Ever Did |
Dawn Watson recounts the story of Raymond. The chapter discusses his frustrations with being unable to help his daughter with her schoolwork, being unable to reproduce his signature, Polly … | Dawn Watson | 4 | 2009 | $0.40 Add |
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From Two or Three Things I Know for Sure about Femmes and SuicideA Love Letter From: Care Work |
A examination of the intersections between being femme and suicide. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 11: Autistic Long-Form, Short-Form, No-Form, Echotextia: Autistic Poetic FormsPART II: THE STORIES THAT KEEP US ALIVE: DISABILITY JUSTICE ARTS IN THE INTERREGNUM From: The Future is Disabled |
This chapter is on autistic art, creativity, and language. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From Family Comes First |
Laurie Glenn Norris recounts the story of Myrtle. The chapter discusses her upbringing, foster care, her Indigenous identity, being a mother, family, being illiterate and navigating a city, … | Laurie Glenn Norris | 6 | 2009 | $0.60 Add |
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From For Badass Disability Justice, Working-Class and Poor-Led Models of Sustainable Hustling for LiberationFrom: Care Work |
An essay championing movements that celebrate disabled, working-class femmes of colour. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
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From  The Last Song of Akol CholFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Details the life of a young boy from the Sudan who suffered a traumatic brain injury during the war. When his family came to Canada in order to get him the services he needed they placed him in … | David Starr | 11 | 2016 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 12: Cripping the Book TourPART II: THE STORIES THAT KEEP US ALIVE: DISABILITY JUSTICE ARTS IN THE INTERREGNUM From: The Future is Disabled |
This chapter explores the challenges of being a disabled writer/creative. The author describes their journey to becoming a writer and outlines some tips for disabled writers. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
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From Protect Your HeartFemme Leadership and Hyper-Accountability From: Care Work |
The author reassures the reader that it’s okay to protect your heart: to build boundaries, to say no, to not reply to emails immediately, etc. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From Teena’s Dream |
Janet Hammock imagines the future story of Teena, someone currently learning how to read and write. The chapter is different discusses reaching ones literary goals, motivations afterwards, … | Janet Hammock | 8 | 2009 | $0.80 Add |
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From Afterword: Adventures in Literacy |
Greg Cook concludes the book with the afterword: Adventures in Literacy. The chapter reflects on the topics and stories discussed throughout the book including the empowerment of literacy, … | Greg Cook | 3 | 2009 | $0.30 Add |
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From Not Over It, Not fixed, and Living a Life Worth LivingTowards an Anti-Ableist Vision of Survivorhood From: Care Work |
The author discusses survivorhood and her belief that she does not want to simply forget her traumas but continually learn from them and grow. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
