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  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  Someday My Prince Will ComeDisney and the World Without Shadows From: Disfigured |
Chapter 4 focuses on Disney’s interpretation of fairy tales, discussing topics including ‘Disneyfication’ of well-known fairy tales, elements of disability in Disney … | Amanda Leduc | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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From Something Below HumanityThe Beautiful and the Beastly From: Disfigured |
Chapter 6 examines the archetype of beauty and the beast, exploring topics such as physical beauty, pity, humanity, isolation and childhood, beauty as good a sign of one’s characteristics, … | Amanda Leduc | 27 | 2020 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Storytelling as Activism, as Crip-Centric StrategyFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include storytelling as a form of activism, silencing of the disabled and ill, empowering and using one’s own voice, historical lineages of oppression, mapping community, … | Shayda Kafai | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From Suicidal Ideation 2.0Queer Community Leadership and Staying Alive Anyway From: Care Work |
A frank discussion of suicidal ideation and the hope to create life models that encompass both courage and vulnerability. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Survival of the Fattest Disabled 2S in the NorthFrom: Living Disability |
Valdine Alycia writes about their experience living in Northern Manitoba on Treaty 5 land as a fat, Two-Spirit person with roots in the Red River Métis Settlement. They relate these experiences … | Valdine Alycia | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Taking Action: Gender-Based Violence, Disability, and the Social Determinants of HealthDisability and Abuse Women with Disabilities “Chat” about Violene Macro-and Micro-Structural Change Notes References From: Not A New Problem |
Fran Odette; Heather Willis; Karen K. Yoshida; Mary Bunch; Susan L. Hardie | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 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 Thanks and AcknowledgementsFrom: Care Work |
Thanks and acknowledgements including links to the author’s articles referenced in the book. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! The AnswerFrom: Making a Home |
This chapter examines potential housing solutions for young people with disabilities. Independent living philosophy vs medical model is explored, and Powley discusses her own experience with … | Jen Powley | 59 | 2023 | $5.90 Add |
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From NEW! The Art of the Ordinary: The Challenge of Defining Interabled RelationshipsFrom: Living Disability |
Athena Cooper challenges the common understanding of what it means to be in an interabled relationship, writing about how she uses her art to challenge the idea that her relationship is extraordinary. | Athena Cooper | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From The Child Whose Head Was Bathed in DarknessFrom: Disfigured |
Chapter 1 examines the objectives behind fairy tales, exploring topics including folk tales and oral traditions, myth and superstition, the Brothers Grimm, happy endings, nature and the woods, … | Amanda Leduc | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! The Depression Cooking ManifestoFrom: Living Disability |
Sonali Menezes writes about creating the zine Depression Cooking, which responds to requests from hungry and depressed friends and family, and features recipes that are lower-effort and some more … | Sonali Menezes | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From The Desolate LandFrom: Disfigured |
Chapter 7 explores ‘desolate lands’ as synonyms for depression in fairy tales, discussing topics including rape in fairy tales, construction of mental illness in fairy tales, the case … | Amanda Leduc | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
 NEW! The Future is DisabledProphecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs |
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled – and what if that’s … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 334 | 2022 | View |
