Disability Visibility (adapted for Young Adults)
17 First-person Stories for Today
Random House Children's Books · Print & ebook · July 4, 2023
Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences." --Chicago Tribune, "Best books published in summer 2020" (Vintage/Knopf Doubleday edition).
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- Who it’s for
- Seventeen essays bring disability experience into view with candor, complexity, and joy.
- Themes
- Disability experience, Ableism and inequality, Disability community and culture
- Genres
- Special Needs for Teens, Activism & Social Justice, Civil & Human Rights for Teens
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Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences." --Chicago Tribune, "Best books published in summer 2020" (Vintage/Knopf Doubleday edition).
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The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts in this collection ask readers to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be “fixed,” but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations. It is essential reading for all.
Many Ways of Seeing
Seventeen essays bring disability experience into view with candor, complexity, and joy.
Come here for
- First-person perspectives on ableism, inequality, community, and culture
- A collection that makes room for both challenges and joy
Expect
- Seventeen essays by disabled writers
- A reframing of disability beyond the idea of being fixed
Where it sits
| Special Needs for Teens | 99% |
|---|---|
| Activism & Social Justice | 53% |
| Civil & Human Rights for Teens | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Biographies
- Prejudice & Racism for Teens
- Special Needs for Teens
- Authors
- Alice Wong
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- July 4, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Disability experience · Ableism and inequality · Disability community and culture
- Reading lane
- Biographies