What We Love
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Hello there.
Our team loves learning and will be doing so until…. forever.
On this page, we’re sharing some of our favourite things. No human, book, blog, resource is perfect. AND… we are intentional and purposeful in what we choose to add to this page.
There are many more books and articles to read. There’s a long list of artists, actvists and peers to learn from and more movies, podcasts and documentaries than time to take in.
The resources listed on this page will grow and shift as our lived experiences and work does. Enjoy.
Additions & updates June 17, 2024
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Alice Wong
Decorative geometric triangular shapes.
Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today (Adapted for Young Adults)
Edited by Alice Wong
Multi-coloured geometric triangles enhance the cover.
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation
By Hannah Gadsby
Black and white photo portrait of a white woman, with short hair wearing glasses.
Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
By Rebekah Taussig
A white woman strikes a pose in her manual wheelchair. She wears a cropped blonde bob, shorts and bright yellow shirt .
The Words in my Hands By Asphyxia
An paint-like illustration of a white girl with dark black hair and an ‘X’ over her ear. A cityscape and a washed out multi-colour sky acts as a background.
Allies: Real Talk about Showing Up, Screwing Up, And Trying Again Edited by Shakirah Bourne & Dana Alison Levy
A dozen artist and creator names in ribbons and speech bubbles cover the dark blue book cover.
How to Raise An Antiracist By Ibram X Kendi
The title is centered on the page surrounded by scribbles.
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Care
By Eli Clare
A scattering of grey river rocks in dappled sunlight fill the book cover.
A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome. A memoir. By Ariel Henley
A white woman in profile with her head tilted back, long brown hair flows in a breeze. A Picasso like sketch is overlayed on her image.
Nishga By Jordan Abe
A collage like precarious pile of six rocks on a white background.
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care and Desire Edited By Alice Wong
Light beige background with a red flower on top, green leaves on both sides, underneath that flower is a purple one and right next to the purple is an orange flower. Under the purple and orange flowers are stems. Overlaid on top of the flowers in black bold letters: Disability Intimacy Essays on Love, Care, and Desire Edited by Alice Wong, Editor of Disability Visibility.
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid By Shayda Kafai
A multi-coloured collage like flowers super imposed over a hand drawn table and chairs. In the foreground, a barefoot black woman in red dress looks to the sky with a cane in hand,
Care Of: Letters, Connections and Cures By Ivan Coyote
Vibrant blue background dotted with water droplets.
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (trailer)
Two young folks in the forefront of fielld and camp cabins. A smiling white young person is seated in a manual wheelchair, while a cheerful black young person holds a guitar over their shoulder and leans on a wheelchair handle.
Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism (screenshot)
Blonde woman of short stature (born with achondroplasia) stands by a roadway.
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements (trailer)
Graphic illustration of a person playing a piano.
Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children (trailer)
Black and white side by side photos of a smiling dark curly haired baby.
Picture This (documentary)
A pink and white filtered photo of topless disabled man in a powerchair. He slyly smiles at the camera. The documentary title ‘Picture This’ takes up half the frame in lavender all caps.
Follow, (Un)learn & Amplify
Add nuanced and complex representations of disability and lived perspectives to your feeds.
Ask yourself: Do any problematic disability storylines show up? Do instances of ableism and/or other isms/obias slip through? How many of these folks are intersectional in their identities or messaging?
Lastly, we encourage you to avoid the ableist inclination to contribute to, develop, like and/or share ‘inspiration porn’.