Celebrate Disability History Month with us!
From 10th November to 20th December, the Centre of Disability Studies and the Library are teaming up to host a campus-wide readalong of Disability Visibility, a powerful and thought-provoking collection edited by Alice Wong. This book amplifies the voices of disabled people and invites us to reflect, learn and connect.
Whether you prefer print, e-book, or audiobook, there’s a format for everyone — and there’s even a Young Adult edition available in print and audio!
📚 Ready to dive in?
Join the conversation and share your thoughts on Campus Press. Let’s read, reflect, and celebrate disability culture together.
According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden–but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, activist Alice Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers.There is Harriet McBryde Johnson’s “Unspeakable Conversations,” which describes her famous debate with Princeton philosopher Peter Singer over her own personhood. There is columnist s. e. smith’s celebratory review of a work of theater by disabled performers. There are original pieces by up-and-coming authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma. There are blog posts, manifestos, eulogies, and testimonies to Congress.
Taken together, this anthology gives a glimpse of the vast richness and complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own assumptions and understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and past with hope and love.
Watch the below video about Disability Visibility from Book Talk:
Choose your preferred format
Disability Visibility is available via University of Leeds Libraries:
Alternative formats are available from the transcription centre.
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- How did you read the book? Was it ebook, audio, in print or the young people’s adaptation? How did the format influence your reading? If its accessible for you, consider re-reading a section in another format to see if that changes your view of the section.
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- Has reading the book made disability more visible to you? What have you noticed in the world around you since beginning to read the book?
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- In her introduction Alice Wong describes the disability as political, magic, power and resistance. Where in your reading did you see each of these elements?
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- The book is prefaced with three quotes including one by Neil Marcus that says ‘Disability is not a brave struggle or “courage in the face of adversity”. Disability is an art. It’s an ingenious way to live’. How did the artful and ingenious ways of being described in the book inspire you?
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