Resources
Books, articles, blogs…
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Note: We do our very best not to post anything with toxic positivity, anything that smacks of “inspo porn” or anything about “miracle cures.” That is not our jam.
Books, articles, blogs…
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (memoir)
Alice Wong
Disability Visibility (anthology)
Disability Intimacy (anthology)
Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life (memoir)
DisVisibility Twitter
Instagram
Paula Knight
The Facts of Life (graphic memoir)
Tessa Brunton
Notes from a Sick Bed (graphic memoir)
Dr. Hngbook
Dr. With M.E. (memoir)
Julie Rehmeyer
Through the Shadowlands (memoir)
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Care Work (essays)
Body Map (poetry)
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (memoir)
The Future Is Disabled (essays)
Aubrey Gordon
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat (narrative nonfiction)
“You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 10 Other Myths about Fat People (narrative nonfiction)
www.yourfatfriend.com/fat-reading-list
Shayda Kafai
Crip Kinship
The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid (narrative nonfiction)
Jessica Taylor-Bearman
A Girl Behind Dark Glasses (memoir)
A Girl In One Room (memoir)
Judith Heumann
Being Heumann (memoir)
Maysoon Zayid
Find Another Dream (memoir)
Imani Barbarin
Crutches & Spice (blog)
The Pandemic Tried To Break Me, But I Know My Black Disabled Life Is Worthy (article in Cosmopolitan)
Articles on Refinery 29
Twitter
A. Andrews
A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability
Keah Brown
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me (essays)
Raymond Antrobus
The Perseverance (poetry)
Amanda Leduc
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (narrative nonfiction)
Tessa Millerbook
What Doesn't Kill You (memoir)
Jennifer Natalya Fink
All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship (narrative nonfiction)
Nnedi Okorafor
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected
Samantha Irby
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (memoir essays)
Riva Lehrer
Golem Girl (memoir)
Harriet McBryde Johnson
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life (memoir)
Maya Finoh
Instagram
Following the Leadership of Disability Justice & Fat Liberation Organizers—In the Covid 19 Movement and Beyond (article)
Toni Bernhardbook
How To Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers
Laurie Edwards
In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America (narrative nonfiction)
Disabled Own Voices book list from Goodreads