About us Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times
Book - 2019
Based on the New York Times series, About Us captures the voices of a community that has been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking The authors in About Us offer intimate stories of how they navigate a world not built for them.... the stories here reveal the range of responses, and the variety of consequences, to being labeled as "disabled" by the broader public."
- Subjects
- Genres
- Essays
- Published
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xxxiii, 286 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBN
- 9781631495854
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Justice
- Becoming Disabled
- The Nazis' First Victims Were the Disabled
- Mental Illness Is Not a Horror Show
- Disability and the Right to Choose
- If You're in a Wheelchair, Segregation Lives
- My Medicaid, My Life
- You Are Special! Now Stop Being Different
- Brain Injury and the Civil Right We Don't Think About
- II. Belonging
- I Don't Want To Be "Inspiring"
- The Deaf Body in Public Space
- My "Orphan Disease" Has Given Me a New Family
- My Life With Tourette Syndrome
- The Everyday Anxiety of the Stutterer
- How to Really See a Blind Person
- The Importance of Facial Equality
- Finding Refuge With the Skin I'm In
- What It Means to Heal
- III. Working
- I Use a Wheelchair. And Yes, I'm Your Doctor.
- Standing Up for What I Need
- Where All Bodies Are Exquisite
- Lost My Voice, But Help Others Find Theirs
- The "Madman" Is Back in the Building
- Hildegard's Visions, and Mine
- Finding Myself on the Page
- Should I Tell My Students I Have Depression?
- We Are the Original Lifehackers
- IV. Navigating
- My Supercharged, Tricked Out, Bluetooth Wheelchair Life Force
- New York Has a Great Subway, If You're Not in a Wheelchair
- A Symbol for "Nobody" That's Really for Everybody
- Feeling My Way Into Blindness
- The Athlete in Me Won't Stop
- The Dawn of the "Tryborg"
- Flying While Blind
- V. Coping
- My Life with Paralysis, It's a Workout
- My $1,000 Anxiety Attack
- When Life Gave Me Lemons, I Had a Panic Attack
- Am I Too Embarrassed to Save My Life?
- My Paralympic Blues
- The Hawk Can Soar
- VI. Love
- A Girlfriend of My Own
- Love, Eventually
- How to Play the Online Dating Game, in a Wheelchair
- Explaining Our Bodies, Finding Ourselves
- Longing for the Male Gaze
- Intimacy Without Touch
- The Three-Legged Dog Who Carried Me
- VII. Family
- Passing My Disability On to My Children
- I Have Diabetes. Am I to Blame?
- 10 Things My Chronic Illness Taught My Children
- The Importance of Finding Family
- Trying to Embrace a "Cure"
- In My Mother's Eyes, and Mine
- A Portrait of Intimate Violence
- VIII. Joy
- Mishearings
- Space Travel: A Vision
- Learning to Sing Again
- Sensations of Sound: On Deafness and Music
- I Dance Because I Can
- Stories About Disability Don't Have to Be Sad
- In My Chronic Illness, I Found a Deeper Meaning
- A Disabled Life Is a Life Worth Living
- About the Contributors
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