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Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults / edited by Alice Wong.

First edition.

Disability visibility. Selections.

New York : Delacorte Press, 2021.

xviii, 139 pages ; 22 cm

Ages 12 up Delacorte Press.

"A young adult adaptation of Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century"-- Provided by publisher.

"This work is based on Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, introduction and compilation copyright © 2020 by Alice Wong, published in paperback by Vintage Books, an division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1: Being -- If you can't fast, give / Maysoon Zayid -- There's a mathematical equation that proves I'm ugly -- or so I learned in in my seventh-grade art class / Ariel Henley -- When you are waiting to be healed / June Eric-Udorie -- The isolation of being deaf in prison / Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson -- Part 2: Becoming -- We can't go back / Ricardo T. Thornton Sr. -- Guide dogs don't lead blind people. We wander as one. / Haben Girma -- Canfei to Canji: the freedom of being loud / Sandy Ho -- Nurturing Black disabled joy / Keah Brown -- Selma Blair became a disabled icon overnight. Here's why we need more stories like hers. / Zipporah Arielle -- Part 3: Doing -- So. Not. Broken. / Alice Sheppard -- Incontinence Is a public health issue -- and we need to talk about it / Mari Ramsawakh -- Falling/burning: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and being a bipolar creator / Shoshana Kessock -- Gaining power through communication access / Lateef McLeod -- Part 4: Connecting -- The fearless Benjamin Lay: activist, abolitionist, dwarf person / Eugene Grant -- Love means never having to say...anything / Jamison Hill -- On the ancestral plane: crip hand-me-downs and the legacy of our movements / Stacey Milbern -- The beauty of spaces created for and by disabled people / s.e. smith

People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.

People with disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions.

Young adult literature.

Wong, Alice, 1974- editor.

9780593381670 (hardcover)

059338167X (hardcover)

9780593381687 (hardback)

0593381688 (hardback)

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