Disability 101

Blogs, Books, and Zines Centering Disabled People

Content Creators:  

Blog Posts and Videos:

Books:

  • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong
  • Plan language translation by Sara Luterman available here
  • Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
  • Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
  • The Pretty One by Keah Brown
  • Haben: The Deafblind Woman who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Grima
  • We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
  • Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens edited by Marieke Nijkamp
  • Run by Kody Keplinger
  • Cursed by Karol Ruth Silverstein
  • The Silence Between Us by  Alison Gervais
  • Meet Me in Outer Space by Melinda Grace
  • The Degenerates by  Jennifer Ann Mann
  • Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
  • Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha​ 
  • Say Hello by Carly Findlay
  • Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
  • Criptionary: Disability Humor and Satire by Maria Palacios
  • Pride Against Prejudice: Transforming Attitudes to Disability by Jenny Morris
  • Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer
  • Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk

Zines (pronounced ZEEN):