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“Academia isn’t an easy place to be if your brain isn’t quite right. Colleagues carelessly call each other ‘schizo’ and ‘bipolar’. Another colleague is fired--easy enough to do…
“A Little Life follows four college classmates-broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While…
“A full-length account of the author’s prize-winning New York Times story chronicles the exploitation and abuse case of a group of developmentally disabled workers, who for 25…
“This powerful memoir is about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman’s face in particular. It took Lucy Grealy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more…
“Uncovering stories about disability history and life, O’Toole shares her firsthand account of some of the most dramatic events in Disability History, and gives voice to those too…
“The residents at a facility for disabled young people in Chicago build trust and make friends in an effort to fight against their living conditions and mistreatment.”
“In the tradition of Mark Doty’s Heaven’s Coast comes an original memoir from the acclaimed poet and author about the accident that left him a paraplegic, and his struggle to find…
“In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked…
“Offers an intersectional framework for understanding how our bodies actually experience the politics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the heart of this exploration of…
“In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning…