Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults / edited by Alice Wong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wong, Alice, 1974-2025, editor.

Standardized Title:

Disability visibility (Young adult adaptation).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--United States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.

People with disabilities--United States--Biography.

People with disabilities--United States--Social conditions.

People with disabilities--Social conditions.

United States.

Genre:

Young adult literature.

essays.

Essays.

Biographies.

Juvenile works.

Physical Description:

xviii, 139 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Delacorte Press, [2020]

Summary:

"A young adult adaptation of Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century"-- Provided by publisher.

According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden-- but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers. Inside you will find activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives include the vast richness and complexity of the disabled experience. They invite readers to question their own assumptions and understandings, while documenting disability culture in the now.-- adapted from original edition

Contents:

Part 1: Being

If you can't fast, give / Maysoon Zayid

There's a mathematical equation that proves I'm ugly - or so I learned in my seventh-grade art class / Ariel Henley

When you are waiting to be healed / June Eric-Udorie

The isolation of being deaf in prison / Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson

Part 2: Becoming

We can't go back / Ricardo T. Thornton Sr.

Guide dogs don't lead blind people. We wander as one. / Haben Girma

Canfei to Canji: the freedom of being loud / Sandy Ho

Nurturing Black disabled joy / Keah Brown

Selma Blair became a disabled icon overnight / Zipporah Arielle

Part 3: Doing

So. Not. Broken. / Alice Sheppard

Incontinence is a public health issue - and we need to talk about it / Mari Ramsawakh

Falling/burning: being a bipolar creator / Shoshana Kessock

Gaining power through communication access / Lateef McLeod

Part 4: Connecting

The fearless Benjamin Lay: activist, abolitionist, dwarf person / Eugene Grant

Love means never having to say...anything / Jamison Hill

On the ancestral plane: crip hand-me-downs and the legacy of our movements / Stacey Milbern

The beauty of spaces created for and by disabled people / s.e. smith.

There's a mathematical equation that proves I'm ugly

or so I learned in in my seventh-grade art class / Ariel Henley

Selma Blair became a disabled icon overnight. Here's why we need more stories like hers. / Zipporah Arielle

Incontinence Is a public health issue

and we need to talk about it / Mari Ramsawakh

Falling/burning: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and being a bipolar creator / Shoshana Kessock

The beauty of spaces created for and by disabled people / s.e. smith

Notes:

"This work is based on Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, introduction and compilation copyright © 2020 by Alice Wong, published in paperback by Vintage Books, an division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Disability visibility.

ISBN:

9780593381670

059338167X

9780593381687

0593381688

OCLC:

1250437324